Inside the Invite-Only, Most Jet-set Design Event in the World, Nomad

MILAN — The world’s most discerning art collectors will descend, once again, on Capri’s Marina Piccola and Marina Grande during the first week of July for the 14th edition of the Nomad Design Fair. The invite-only itinerant art and design showcase takes over unexpected, glamorous locations and brings emerging and established galleries, as well as unique projects, together under one roof — think creations from New York’s Friedman Benda, David Gill Gallery from London, Nilufar Gallery from Milan, and Etage Projects from Copenhagen. “It’s not a little group,” says Nomad cofounder Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte. “It is a massive yacht show basically happening in Marina Piccola and Marina Grande. You have like 100 of them. It’s crazy. From the U.S., from Qatar, all around the world. They’re all there that week.” From July 4 to 7, Nomad will unfold in Dolce Vita-style at the oldest historical building on the island of Capri, Carthusian Certosa di San Giacomo. Perched on a verdant cliff, it was built in 1371 by Count Giacomo Arcucci, secretary to Queen Giovanna I, overlooking the azure blue of the Mediterranean and central square La Piazzetta. Nomad Capri Nomad’s first edition took place in 2017 in Monaco at La Vigie, a

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