We unveiled new work from our ongoing Gandhara collaboration with Studio Lel at Nomad Abu Dhabi, the itinerant design fair that takes place annually across globally significant architectural and landscape settings. Studio Lel, founded by Pakistani-British designer Zara Latif, has built its practice around the visual heritage of Gandharan art, the ancient tradition that flourished at the crossroads of Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean. The new pieces expanded the Carapace motif into fresh material combinations, continuing a dialogue between two design practices rooted in distinct but historically connected cultures.

For We Design Beirut 2025, we collaborated with TRAME, a Beirut-based studio working at the intersection of craft and digital fabrication, to reimagine the backgammon board as a designed object. Together we developed custom board designs that merged our marquetry craftsmanship with TRAME's approach to digital pattern generation, producing pieces that were both handmade and algorithmically informed. Backgammon, a game with deep roots in Arab social culture, became the meeting point for two studios whose work sits at the border between tradition and technology.

For In Assembly at We Design Beirut 2025, the annual design festival that brings together Lebanese and international creatives across Beirut, we created Patterns at Play, an installation that reimagined marquetry as a shared, participatory experience rather than a finished object. Visitors were invited to gather around large-format pattern tables and co-create their own arrangements using modular marquetry elements drawn from our geometric vocabulary. It was an experiment in what happens when craft moves from the maker's hands to the audience's, and what patterns people choose to build when given the tools to do so.