We contributed a work to Take Me Away to Better Days, a charity design and art auction held at the Sursock Museum, one of Beirut's most important cultural institutions, itself still recovering from damage caused by the 2020 port explosion. The auction brought together unique works by 28 Lebanese and international artists and designers, with all proceeds going to the Gaia Fadoulian Association, a Lebanese organisation working to protect and care for animals in need. Our contribution was a handcrafted piece made specifically for the occasion.

For Milan Design Week 2022, the annual gathering of the global design industry centred around the Salone del Mobile furniture fair, we continued our collaboration with Irthi Contemporary Craft Council, an Emirati institution dedicated to preserving traditional crafts. Building on the Zenobie vase work we had done together, we transformed the forms into Totem stools, freestanding pieces that wove together Emirati Talli metallic thread weaving and our signature marquetry inlay into a single unified object. The Totems were shown in Milan as an example of what happens when two distinct craft traditions are given equal weight in the design process.

Etat de Siege was a group exhibition at Galerie Tanit in Beirut, bringing together 20 Lebanese designers each invited to create a seat that traced the evolution of seating culture. We presented the Distort Arabesque Sofa, a piece that drew its form and proportions from the Arab diwan, the traditional low sofa found at the heart of Arab social and domestic life. The shape was deliberately distorted, stretched and compressed in ways that we felt reflected Lebanon's own shifting and complicated identity over decades of change.