Featuring: Laurids Gallée, Objects of Common Interest, Linde Freya Tangelder, Rich Aybar, Derek Castiglioni, Niki Danai, Stefano Del Vecchio, Diaphan Studio, Jirah, Panorammma,Stefania Ruggiero, Zihan Zhao.
Starting in April 2025, Delvis (Un)Limited Gallery embarked on a new trajectory, positioning itself as a space for research into contemporary living.
The inaugural exhibition, presented during Milan Design Week and curated by Valentina Ciuffi and Joseph Grima, explored the shifting boundaries between gallery and home. Designers were invited to inhabit—day and night—a living space they had both conceived and built themselves.
This lived experience became the foundation for a broader inquiry, which deepens and transforms in Miami: What does it mean to live surrounded by collectible design? Does immersion in an environment shaped by one’s own work make this kind of living feel more natural? What dynamics emerge when a domestic space is the result of a collective process—where the creative ego of each designer intersects, overlaps, and negotiates with the others?And when does collectible design become a status symbol, rather than a way of shaping a more personal, intimate space—one that feels lived-in and emotionally resonant?
These open-ended questions and reflections will continue to unfold in Miami. The pieces first presented in Milan will reappear in new configurations, charged with new meanings, shaped by the dialogues they sparked and the contexts they move through. Responding to the constraints of the fair environment, only the living area of the original house—where the designers actually lived in Milan—will be recreated at Design Miami. The works will be rearranged following extended conversations between the curators and the designers during the Milan days, whichrevealed new, more intimate readings of the objects.
As Valentina Ciuffi explains: “Sleeping in the gallery was a small experiment suspended between domesticity and the awareness of being on display—together with a group of objects that only partially serve a function. For the most part, they communicate—through materials, colors, and the stories that shaped them, which continue to speak as you inhabit the space, as a home.”
At Design Miami, Delvis (Un)Limited presents a selection of works that resonate with this evolving narrative.Among them is a sonic bar cabinet by Objects of Common Interest, carved into a vibrant pink stone and housing a uniquely engineered speaker system. Also featured is an armchair by Rich Aybar, the result of his long-standing material exploration and commitment to unconventional form. The precise resin geometries of Laurids Gallée appear alongside their opposites—ornamental inlays that, when laid over the same shapes, radically alter the objects’ identity.
Niki Danai’s explosive ceramic pieces stretch across walls or implode into monumental vessels, while the intricate graphic language of Stefania Ruggiero takes form in irregular, island-like rugs. Jirah’s chairs evoke the atmosphere of sacred spaces, as well as a primitive aesthetic linked to nature. Diaphan Studio’s minimalist wall lights emit razor-sharp beams of light with sculptural precision, in dialogue with Zihan Zhao’s luminous nodes that evoke the alignment of the planets. The exhibition also includes the bold silver forms of Mexican studio Panorammma, as well as the layers of the casted white bronze of Linde Freya Tangelder’s coffee table, and the dialogue between the soft, irregular silhouettes of the chair by Stefano Del Vecchio and the timeless strength of concrete in Derek Castiglioni’s desk.
