BEST SCENE STEALERS

This year's space-defining stars take a bow

- HUGO MACDONALD

Was 2025 the year everything in design became collectible? The elegant glamour of the secondary market met the rigour of industrial R&D in the same brand, showroom, object, breath. Stands at Salone resembled not just furnished but fully inhabited midcentury houses in Palm Springs. Even the most innocuous dining table belied the simplicity of its form as the culmination of a five-year research project into repurposing waste material from an industrial process.