Nina Yashar Follows “Nilufar Depot, The First Decade” with a French Fabric Collaboration and a Monaco Opening

Ten years after composing the inaugural installation for Nina Yashar’s design epicenter, Nilufar Depot, Italian designer Martino Gamper returned this September for an exhibition and site-specific performance to celebrate the publication of “Nilufar Depot, The First Decade.” While Gamper’s ephemeral intervention involved improvisation with pieces curated from the gallery’s collection, the hardcover book takes a more comprehensive approach—depicting the depot’s influential ten-year history through unpublished images alongside thoughtful text by Annamaria Sbisà. The tome documents all major exhibitions since Nilufar Depot’s 2015 opening.

Gamper’s pieces will remain on view in Nilufar Depot through early 2026. It’s one of many moving parts for Yashar, whose Nilufar Editions collaboration with high-end French fabric company Métaphores currently has a tactile, interiors installation, “In the Mood for Touch,” on display in Paris. This presentation, at the Métaphores Showroom on Rue de Furstemberg, follows Nilufar’s well-received return to Design Miami.Paris, where Yashar paired rare pieces by Gabriella Crespi, Giuseppe Scapinelli, James Mont, and José Zanine Caldas with works from emerging designers Audrey Large and Christian Pellizzari. Though the presentation centered the harmony between vintage and contemporary design, two highlights—Hechizoo’s Aurea Tatami carpet and Allegra Hicks’ bronze crochet series—left an indelible impression.

Next for Yashar is the November 6 opening of “Translations,” her second curatorial collaboration with creative director Clemente Tivoli. Staged within a 360-square-meter, horseshoe-shaped layout in Monaco, at Le Victor Palace, the immersive experience is composed of nine rooms. Visitors traverse each, following a singular narrative propelled by art, design, and fashion iconography. The curators have referred to the exhibition as a study of the sublime—and within attendees will spot the Philosophorum Floating lamp by Caldas, alongside Tridente armchairs from Lina Bo Bardi and Giancarlo Palanti, Etienne Marc’s furniture collection, and more.