8 Highlights From Salon Art + Design 2025

While the creative industry’s New York calendar does not lack fairs focused on art, a one-stop destination for art, design, antiques, and jewelry is a rarity. Salon Art + Design is fills this gap for collectors and dealers, as well as lovers of all things beauty. The fair’s 14th edition which is open through November 10, 2025 at the Park Avenue Armory comes on the heels of last year’s noticeable success. Nicky Dessources who assumed the executive director role in 2024 from Jill Bokor has ushered the fair into a new chapter marked by high sales, inclusive visitor profile, and adventurous programming.

“My goal is to continue the momentum from last year when the energy was noticeably high comparable to the fair’s first few years,” Dessources tells Interior Design. Although she has been involved with the fair for a decade in various roles, her sophomore edition as a leader is what she likens to a musician’s new album after a successful debut. “I am trying not to stick to the pressure and continue to focus on educating the public and new generation of collectors and taste-makers,” she adds.

This year, around 50 exhibitors occupy the booths, among which 11 make their Salon debut. Additionally, the fair boasts an enticing programming that aims to provide space for newcomer exhibitors and voices from a broader spectrum of histories and geographies, while attracting an expansive audience.

Dessources remembers and cherishes the first collectible piece she acquired, which was a porcelain vase from Atelier Courbet, a current fair exhibitor. “I am a great example and proof that you can start your collecting journey at any time and educate yourself to build something personal,” she adds.

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Female Design Council

Thursday’s VIP preview, which benefited Dia Art Foundation with a soiree that continued until 9 p.m., saw an immense crowd. Attendees lined up to enter the Armory’s Drill Hall before the grand salon with some of the exhibitors positioned at the venue’s gilded entryway. Female Design Council claims a hallway corner with a vignette of objects designed by their members. A standout is Dana Hurwitz’s reclaimed glass vessels which she has adorned with bulky, even kinky, hardware accents. Erica Sellers’s similarly bondage-infused glass vase contrasts the material’s fragility with pierced metal ornaments. The body, especially female physicality, is palpable in Sophia Wallace’s terra-cotta sculpture from her Swan Series, which replicates the clitoris like a floral blossom in the material’s raw coloration.

Atelier Courbet

The Chelsea gallery has become something of a tastemaker on the overlap of art and sculptural design with their solo shows that linger between allusiveness and function. A fixture of the fair circuit, Atelier Courbet brings the effortless cool of bronze to the forefront though a sleek presentation with Pierre Bonnefille who currently has the first U.S. exhibition of his career at the gallery. The artist’s bookshelf and benches from his Rhizome series both ooze and freeze through his attribution of malleability to the material. The presentation also includes works by Jonathan Hansen, Peter Speliopoulos, and Gianluca Pacchioni.

Virginia Harper and Costantini Design

Among the exhibitors who shine outside the grand dome of the Drill Hall is New York-based designer Virginia Harper who partners with Costantini Design for an installation titled Richiamo. Harper’s woven dividers, titled Global Threads, are peppered around the hallway while metal is the star of Costantini Design’s furniture on display, transformed here into a sculptural collaborative material which serves as the base for different surfaces. Take, for example, the Benino table in which the mutable base is welded into gentle cage-like formation with a round parchment top.

Todd Merrill Studio

Among the main exhibitors, Todd Merrill boasts an eclectic affair with a diversity of materials and colors. The long list of designers on view include Alex Roskin, Aurel K. Basedow, Boris Gratry, Draga & Aurek, Heré Obligi, Maarten Vrolijk, Markus Haase, Pia Maria Raeder, and Stefan Rurak. Part installation and part a domestic setting, the outing delivers a bite for every taste, whether Molly Hatch’s 35-piece grid-structured ceramic wall hanging inspired by a vessel created by the 19th century British designer and theorist Christopher Dresser, or Dutch designer Maarten Vrolijk’s fluid-looking Sakura pendant lighting which marks his first step into illuminated glass. From German artist Markus Haase’s bronze and onyx chandelier to Phillip Jeffries’s unapologetically gilded wallpaper, the booth embodies the true spirit of the fair for responding to a wealth of tastes.

Bossa Furniture

For lovers of Brazilian design, Bossa Furniture‘s booth, a São Paulo fixture which has recently opened a U.S. outpost in Chelsea, is a must-visit. The presentation builds on the gallery’s recent multigenerational New York shows Lucas Recchia: Crafting the Future and Joaquim Tenreiro: Inventing a Modern Tropical Living. In order to give another opportunity to revisit Brazilian designers’ oeuvres, the presentation Past and Present of Brazilian Design delivers the critical cues from the nation’s definitive Modernist style. Tenreiro who passed away in 1992 at age 86 is represented with pieces that prove his clear role in Brazilian design with a rich selection of works, including a lounge chair from mid 1950s: sculptural in form, the furniture piece’s rosewood legs, rattan back, and its mohair upholstery in a soft hue of blue arrests the viewers with its grand presence. Recchia who was born in 1992 uses bronze in romantic finishes, such as the Coria sconce in which an organic form and a beaten surface yields a jewelry-like result.

Craftica Gallery

A newcomer is Craftica Gallery from Warszawa, with a diverse presentation of Polish designers as well as a collaboration with French interior architect Patrice Nourissat for an arresting display. Cyryl Zakrzewski’s dramatic console table Linkana Cellule II is both futuristic and retro, with a rounded and stretched silhouette that is reminiscent of Futurist artists. The object’s birch plywood skeleton is contrasted with hand-carved plywood and milled brass carvings for an equally alien and inviting appearance. Another standout during the preview evening was Zofia Sobolewska Ursic’s Cabinet La Nature est un temple, a romantic take on classic marquetry cabinets. The hand-carved oak storage has a glossy finish to preserve the designer’s elaborate rendition of flowers inspired by Polish painter Stanisław Wyspiański’s images.

Misgana African Art

Dessources’s role is not the only sophomore standout this year—the return of Salon Introduction initiative benefits Misgana African Art, a new gallery run by Seble Asfaw who has been given a booth designed by Rahel Semegn of Abé Interiors to show the works of Toure Coffey. Following Verso’s win for the initiative last year, Misgana takes the torch with a booth brought together in partnership with longtime African art dealer Carlo Bella who also has a booth on view. Asfaw also joins forces with Abé Interiors founders Rahel Semegn to render a display that features work by Toure Coffey whose mixed-media paintings from last year hold abstract rhythms as well as a topographic sense of place.

Milord Antiques

Montreal gallery Milord Antiques attracts visitors with their broad offering of furniture with their playful takes and thrilling looks at the past. An indisputable scene-stealer is a pair of Hyaline leather and glass chairs by Fabio Lenci which he designed for Stending in 1967. The cylinder tubes of cushioning in a reupholstered light shade of brown fall into an inviting contrast with glass arms and backrest, creating a full circle of 1960s’ playfulness and radicalism. Another crowd-pleaser is a sculptured bronze disc-shaped bar, designed by Paul Evans for Directional in 1971. Gothic for most eyes, the massive wall-hung bar reveals a regular shelving structure for bottles and glasses behind its ornate surface which has meteor-like details.