Bone Chair by Joris Laarman. (photo Droog Design)

All perfectly reasonable questions, but you can understand why it was so refreshing for the gallery's owner, Murray Moss, to discover a different approach to design collecting at the first Design Miami design fair last December. "Someone was holding up a hand-written sign from the street, pressed against our windows before opening hours, which read: 'I'll take the blue one,"' he recalled. "No rap required. No explanation desired."