Schizophrenia reigns this weekend at the great Design Miami fair, one of the world’s best places to see and buy modern and contemporary decorative arts. There’s a grand spread of the Old Masters of modern design—Rietveld, Eames, Prouve, and the rest—and then, tucked mostly into the farther corners, there are young hotshots breaking new ground. It’s almost as though you were showing Damien Hirst beside Michelangelo. Since the Old Masters will take care of themselves, this slide show presents works only by the best of the new talents, with ideas that still feel freshly minted.
—Blake Gopnik