A bold geometric intervention bridges art, architecture, and heritage as Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 begins
Burberry marks Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 with a striking artistic gesture, unveiling a special façade collaboration with British-American artist Sarah Morris at its Miami Design District store. Known for her abstract geometric paintings and cinematic explorations of urban life, Morris brings her unmistakable visual language to one of the neighborhood’s most architecturally attuned retail spaces. The project extends Burberry’s ongoing dialogue between contemporary art and brand heritage, foregrounding a shared fascination with graphic systems, cultural symbols, and the built environment.
For this collaboration, Morris reimagines her 2004 work Department of Water and Power [Los Angeles], originally named after the city’s notorious municipal building. Now spanning an impressive 31 x 27 feet across the façade, the piece becomes a vivid architectural skin for Burberry’s Miami outpost. Its layered geometry — a dynamic array of saturated colors — is superimposed over the Burberry Check, forming what the house describes as “a playful and humorous subversion” of its most recognizable motif. Positioned within the Design District’s landscape of galleries, luxury boutiques, and modernist influences, the installation radiates both precision and irreverence.
The façade’s debut underscores Burberry’s commitment to cultural engagement as Miami enters its most art-forward week of the year. Morris, whose works reside in institutions including MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, and Tate Modern, brings global resonance to the project while grounding it firmly in the context of Miami’s creative energy. Visitors can experience the installation at Burberry, 112 NE 39th St #10, Miami, FL 33137 (Monday–Saturday, 11am–8pm; Sunday, 12pm–6pm), where the house’s iconic pattern meets contemporary abstraction in a dialogue as bold as the city itself.