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After Capri, St. Moritz and Abu Dhabi, NOMAD Heads to the Hamptons

"Every NOMAD edition begins by listening to a place," director Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte hedged when asked what to expect from this edition of the fair.

NOMAD, one of the first boutique art and design fairs to build an identity around itinerant, site-specific presentations, launched in 2017 in Monte Carlo before expanding to other wealth-capital hubs, including St. Moritz, Capri and Abu Dhabi. Now the fair is making its U.S. debut in the Hamptons at The Watermill Center, the experimental arts center founded by Robert Wilson. Since its founding, it has distinguished itself from more conventional fairs, anticipating the boothless, site-specific approaches we now see at fairs like Esther and Neighbors.

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The fair’s inaugural Hamptons edition will feature site-responsive presentations spanning sculptural furniture, contemporary and modern art, fine jewelry and one-of-a-kind objects brought by a lineup of galleries including The Future Perfect (New York, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco), Todd Merrill Studio (New York), Tristan Hoare (London), Gallery FUMI (London), Maison Gerard (New York), Leila Heller Gallery (Dubai, New York), J. Lohmann Gallery (New York), Jeff Lincoln Art Design (Southampton) and Robilant (London, Milan), among others.

Looking at NOMAD’s choice of locations, each has had a distinctive character and an affluent international audience. Yet the fair’s director, Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, tells Observer that affluence alone has........

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