{"id":249841,"date":"2025-02-11T13:09:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=canvasflow&p=249841"},"modified":"2025-02-11T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:09:52","slug":"pearl-jam-by-nicole-nomsa-moyo","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/pearl-jam-by-nicole-nomsa-moyo\/","title":{"rendered":"This Miami Installation Offers A Tribute To The Ndebele Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It stands before Buckminster Fuller: Fly\u2019s Eye Dome, 1979\/80-2014 in the Palm Court through the summer and is constructed of foam, fiberglass, and polyurea coating, hand-painted in a pattern inspired by the architecture of the Ndebele, a South African tribe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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February 11, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Annie Block\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

This Miami Installation Offers A Tribute To The Ndebele Tribe<\/h1>\n\n\n

It was a year of milestones for the week-long affair collectively known as Art Basel Miami Beach\/Design Miami<\/a>. The latter celebrated its 20th anniversary, featuring some 45 international galleries under the theme Blue Sky, emphasizing imaginative concepts. Outside the convention center where it\u2019s held, a jewelry-themed installation did just that. It was part of \u201cPearl Jam\u201d by 34-year-old architectural and urban designer Nicole Nomsa Moyo<\/a>, the cluster of interactive, boldly hued pearl trees a tribute to the Ndebele, a tribe in South Africa, where she was raised, and the winner of the Miami Design District\u2019s Design Commission, itself in its 10th edition. \u201cPearl Jam,\u201d Nomsa Moyo says of the title, \u201csymbolizes a fusion of heritage and artistic evolution, the \u2018pearl\u2019 representing women like me in Ndebele culture and their timeless artistry in jewelry, clothing, and architecture, the \u2018jam\u2019 conveying a dynamic re\u00adimagining that yields a new form of cultural art.\u201d Those new forms appear all over town: in Paradise Plaza as giant pearls of recycled aluminum, as earrings of South African\u2013sourced glass beads dangling from trees, and as a large de-constructable necklace, aka a modular bench, in the Palm Court that stands near the site\u2019s iconic Buckminster Fuller dome. \u201cThe installations,\u201d adds Nomsa Moyo, who\u2019s now based in Toronto, where she moved after earning her master\u2019s in architecture from Carleton University in Ottawa, \u201creflect the power of art to transform spaces and connect people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zimbabwe-born designer Nicole Nomsa Moyo is the founder of the Toronto-based studio Good Urban Design. Photography by Tatenda Chidora.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The modular, 16-foot-diamater Necklace is part of \u201cPearl Jam,\u201d her multipart installation that won the annual Miami Design District\u2019s Design Commission. It stands before Buckminster Fuller: Fly\u2019s Eye Dome, 1979\/80-2014 in the Palm Court through the summer and is constructed of foam, fiberglass, and polyurea coating, hand-painted in a pattern inspired by the architecture of the Ndebele, a South African tribe. Photography by Kris Tamburello. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n