Apple’s ‘Designers of Tomorrow’ Opens at Design Miami.Paris

The second edition of Apple‘s Designers of Tomorrow program has opened as part of Design Miami.Paris, staged inside the historic Hôtel de Maisons in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. The 18th-century townhouse once belonged to the Pozzo di Borgo family and was more recently home to designer Karl Lagerfeld.

Through the eyes of Rodman Primack

Curated by Rodman Primack, Design Miami’s longtime former creative director, this year’s exhibition is built around the theme ‘Presence’ and brings together four emerging designers and studios. Egyptian-Danish architect Salem S. Charabi created ‘The Emergence of Light,’ a lantern built from banana paper, stacked date-palm fronds and a limestone base. Brooklyn-based Isabel Rower presented ‘Padded Chair 1860,’ a high-gloss chair with a beaded-fringe seat that nods to 18th- and 19th-century papier-mâché furniture. Seoul’s Yoonjeong Lee contributed ‘New Form,’ a table and lamp built from roughly 5,000 veneer sheets ‘nailed’ together with worn-down pencils. And Parafernalia, the studio spanning Monterrey and Mexico City run by Genki Matsumura and Sebastián Zorrilla, unveiled ‘MonoAmbiente 1,’ an acid-etched steel piece that transforms between a closed landscape form and an open table-and-stools arrangement.

Designers chosen by a nine-member jury

The four were chosen by a nine-person jury that included Apple’s Molly Anderson alongside Nifemi Marcus-Bello and Minjae Kim. Each designer developed their work using Apple hardware and software, including MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Procreate and iCloud.

Open to visitors until 25 October

The exhibition, which previewed on October 20 and runs through October 25 as part of Design Miami.Paris, marks the second year of Apple’s program supporting emerging talent in the design world.