BASEL, SWITZERLAND –– Design Miami Basel, an exclusive invitational design event featuring 17 of the most significant galleries exhibiting modern to contemporary museum-quality design and decorative arts, will run concurrently with Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland. Design Miami Basel is premiering just six months after Design Miami (formerly design.05 Miami) eclipsed organizers’ expectations, drawing nearly 7,000 visitors to the Miami Design District during Art Basel Miami Beach. Design Miami Basel will take place at both the Foyer Theater Basel, located at Elisabethenstrasse 16, CH-4010 Basel and the church Elisabethenkirche, located at Elisabethenstrasse 10, CH-4051 Basel. Design Miami Basel will be open Tuesday, June 13-Friday, June 16, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily. The Design Miami Basel Vernissage, by invitation only, will take place on June 12, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. The press preview will begin at 4 p.m. on June 12. The Nocturne Private View will be held on Wednesday, June 14 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

“With the momentum of Design Miami behind us, Design Miami Basel promises to bring to Europe the same mix of high-quality design that made our inaugural event such an overwhelming success,” said Ambra Medda, the director of Design Miami Basel. “We are thrilled to introduce to Europe a new forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing, and creating design,” she said.

Design Miami Basel will bring together the world’s most exclusive collectors and connoisseurs for a showcase of the best in design during the world’s premier art fair. Participating galleries include Antik (NY); Demisch Danant (NY); Barry Friedman Ltd. (NY); Magen H. Gallery (NY); Nilufar (Milan); Galerie Italienne (Paris); R 20th Century (NY); Galerie Kreo (Paris); Galerie Patrick Seguin (Paris); Philippe Jousse (Paris); Cristina Grajales (NY); Contrasts Gallery (Shanghai); and Galerie Downtown-François Laffanour (Paris). Joining the roster of the world’s leading design galleries is Dansk Mobelkunst (Copenhagen/Paris); Designer’s Gallery Gabrielle Ammann (Cologne); Mouvements Modernes (Paris); and Philippe Denys (Brussels).

Design Miami Basel will inaugurate an annual “Designer of the Future” award to complement the “Designer of the Year” award established at Design Miami. A gala reception for the Designer of the Future will be held at the Les Trois Rois Hotel. Design Miami Basel will host an array of design exhibitions and symposiums, including interview-style talks with top designers and a panel discussion on architecture and design. Panelists will include internationally recognized designers, as well as curators and museum directors from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the V&A in London, Miami’s Wolfsonian Museum, MoMA, and Vitra. Design Miami Basel, slated to become an annual event, is an independent enterprise organized in cooperation with Art Basel and endorsed by Vitra and Herzog & de Meuron.