We visited Kohler's San Francisco showroom to speak about the making of the Transcendence collection, the large-scale hammam installation we had created together for Design Miami 2022. The talk gave us the opportunity to walk an American design audience through the process: how the tiles were made from Kohler manufacturing waste, how our craft techniques were adapted to work at architectural scale, and what the hammam means as a cultural form being reinterpreted for a contemporary context. It was a conversation about craft, material innovation, and what a genuine commitment to sustainability in design actually looks like.

At Design Shanghai 2024, one of Asia's leading design fairs and an important annual platform for dialogue between Eastern and Western design cultures, we joined the East meets East panel discussion as part of The New Universal Language of Design programme. The conversation explored how craft serves as a bridge between design traditions that are often discussed as if they exist in opposition to each other. We spoke about our own experience working at the intersection of Arab, Japanese, and European design influences, and what it means to build a design language that is rooted in one culture but speaks beyond it.

For Downtown Design Dubai 2024, we collaborated with de Gournay, the British luxury wallcovering brand known for its hand-painted and hand-embroidered wall art, to create a Majlis installation. The Majlis, a traditional Arab reception room designed for gathering and conversation, was conceived as a complete designed environment, with our marquetry furniture and brass detailing set against de Gournay's Deco Palms wallcovering. It was a meeting between two luxury craft traditions rooted in very different cultural contexts, brought together in a form that is central to Arab social life.