KEEP IT CURIOUS | Design Miami 2025
Featuring works by Marina Abramović · Pilar Zeta · Miranda Makaroff · Karen Atta · Facture Studio · Ian Alistair Cochran · Lyora Pissarro x David Rodriguez · Merve Kahraman · Bert Furnari · Courtney Kinnare · Brandi Howe · Kim Mesches · Lucia Neamtu
Welcome to Keep It Curious—a world where imagination meets refinement, and where color, materiality, and form converge in a vivid sensory journey. This year at Design Miami Tuleste Factory invites you to explore design as living fantasy: bold, unexpected, and deeply emotive.
At the heart of the presentation lies a spirit of whimsical sophistication—playful yet poised, vibrant yet refined. These works are designed not merely to inhabit a space, but to transform it, infusing the room with a sense of movement, energy, and wonder. Through unexpected contrasts, sumptuous materials, and striking palettes, every piece becomes a spark for wonder, curiosity, and connection.
Here, design transcends function. More than functional objects, these pieces are storytellers. Through surreal silhouettes, playful proportions, and tactile surprises, each design enhances the personality and mood of a space. It’s a reminder that great design doesn’t just exist—it sparks imagination and creates moments of pure creative indulgence.
For those who seek the extraordinary, Keep It Curious redefines contemporary design through the lens of fantasy, craftsmanship, and soulful expression.
About The Artists
Marina Abramović
Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as a visual art form. She created some of the most important early works in this practice, including Rhythm 0 (1974), in which she offered herself as an object of experimentation for the audience, as well as Rhythm 5 (1974), where she lay in the centre of a burning five-point star to the point of losing consciousness. These performances married concept with physicality, endurance with empathy, complicity with loss of control, passivity withdanger. They pushed the boundaries of self-discovery, both of herself and her audience. They also marked her first engagements with time, stillness, energy, pain, and the resulting heightened consciousness generated by long durational performance.
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Pilar Zeta
Pilar Zeta is an Argentine multimedia artist, designer, and creative director known for her mystical and futuristic style. Her breakthrough came in 2015 when she designed Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams album cover. She continued collaborating with the band on projects like Everyday Life and Music of the Spheres. Her work blends surrealism, metaphysics, and architecture. She calls her style “mystical futurism,” mixing bold colors and geometric forms.
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Miranda Makaroff
Miranda Makaroff, born in Spain in 1984 to an Argentine father and a Spanish mother, was surrounded by a creatively vibrant environment from a young age. This nurturing atmosphere allowed her the freedom to explore various artistic mediums, leading her to develop a unique artistic language that integrates different art forms seamlessly. Celebrating the essence of womanhood, Makaroff's art explores a visual universe free from constraints, characterized by vibrant colors and a touch of whimsical humor.
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Karen Atta
Karen Atta is a sculptor whose work explores forms that are rooted in nature, science, and the supernatural. A Lebanese American, Karen was born in New York City, and raised in Southern California. Growing up in a mid-century surf town fostered an intense appreciation of art, music, and the natural environment. After receiving an MFA in sculpture from Concordia University in Montreal, Karen dove into music and secured a contract with Atlantic Records. Her music career led her back to New York, where she worked as an independent artist and ultimately founded Atta Studio.
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Facture
Facture is a contemporary design studio located in Brooklyn, NY. Founded by designer Quincy Ellis, the studio creates dynamic pieces from molded resin by manipulating the elements of light, color and transparency. This exploration is central to all of Facture's work, with each design featuring unique colors, shades and opacities. The final product is a body of work that achieves new dimensions in the medium of resin, consisting of objects whose compositions and meaning change in response to the environments in which they are placed.
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Ian Alistair Cochran
Ian Alistair Cochran is a designer who is excited by unconventional materials and the relationship that emerges in working with them. He makes contemporary art furniture in resin, fiberglass, composites, and continues to explore other materials not typically used in the design world. Ian’s Plump furniture series has garnered significant press and fanfare.
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Lyora Pissarro x David Rodriguez
Lyora Pissarro’s artwork exists at the intersection of tradition and innovation, where the historical lineage of landscape painting collides with the luminous possibilities of technology. Her practice expands beyond the canvas, incorporating layers of light and digital interventions that challenge the fixed nature of painted space.
David’s artistic practice moves fluidly between sculpture, technology, and social consciousness. Drawing on his background in electrical engineering, he creates illuminated, kinetic works that transform circuitry and material into meditations on humanity’s relationship with progress and nature.
Merve Kahraman
Merve Kahraman is an award-winning designer who specializes in residential, hospitality, and product design. She has been featured as one of the Great Women Designers in Phaidon’s publication, Woman Made. Her work and products are known for their unique style and playful design. Originally from Istanbul, Kahraman studied interior design at the Istituto Europeo di Design (Milan, Italy) before moving to London to receive her MA in Product Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London, UK).
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Bert Furnari
Bert Furnari is a multidisciplinary artist and self-taught metal fabricator. He co-founded eleven20 Art Studios and Workshops in Easton, PA, where he operates a dynamic studio and metalworking shop. His medium of choice is aluminum, celebrated for its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio, malleability, durability, and sustainability. Remarkably, aluminum is 100% recyclable, with over 75% of all aluminum ever mined still in use today—a testament to its enduring and environmentally friendly nature.
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Courtney Kinnare
Courtney Kinnare is an artist and designer based in Brooklyn known for her vibrant mirrored works and functional artistic objects. Without feeling constricted to one medium or art form, she works intuitively to create abstract works of hyper-color palettes observed in the natural world, subconsciously documented throughout her life experiences. Each work is a unique experiment that studies the interaction of color, texture, and light, unveiling itself as it develops.
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Brandi Howe
As an artist and creative director, Brandi Howe has manifested her distinct, hyper-charged aesthetic across multiple mediums such as set design, furniture design, interior design, fashion, and textile design. Her star-studded resumé includes set design for Rihanna's Savage X Fenty, Wonderland, Rolling Stones, and The Webster, as well as collaborations with Chrome Hearts, among others. In her recent years, Brandi launched Shag Chateau and the Lalita loft, both a high-concept production space she developed and designed that epitomizes her colorful, bold, yet elegant point of view.
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Kim Mesches
Kim Mesches is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist with a background in art, fashion design,sculpture, and creative direction. His work often explores unconventional materials and innovativetreatments. His work has led to collaborations with notable figures such as Marina Abramović, CardiB, Gwen Stefani and Ashley Graham. Kim continues to explore the intersection of art, design andfashion, aiming to create immersive experiences that transcend traditional boundaries.
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Lucia Neamtu
Lucia Neamtu is a curator and designer born in Moldova and based in NYC. She weaves between endless commissions, furniture design and art direction spanning the globe. Lucia has worked on projects large and small, with a blend of sharp modernism and a signature touch of the surreal. A master of subtlety, her artistry extends from daring, curating, to building new spaces.
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