The curatorial theme at this year’s Design Miami –the summit that was founded in 2005 as a way to showcase home-centric creativity in complement to the megafair, Art Basel , and that now has footprints everywhere from Seoul to Aspen–is dubbed “Make. Believe.”

It’s a good one. The term’s grammatical separation inverts its fairytale naivete; in creative business, one can dream all they want, but beliefs have soft limits, and obvious intangibles, if they are not realized. If they are not made . We all know the phrase “make believe” to be famously purely fantasy; it’s funny how two periods render it a wholesome reality.

So, what has this theme yielded?

Instead of us solely running down our highlights, we spoke to a handful of names—from a major American football star to a San Francisc

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