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.

At London Craft Week 2022, one of the world's leading celebrations of exceptional craft and design, we collaborated with The Invisible Collection, an online platform specialising in the work of established architects and designers, to dedicate a gallery space entirely to marquetry inlay. The installation traced the craft step by step, showing the materials, tools, and process behind our work for visitors unfamiliar with the technique. We also held a conversation on stage about cultural influences in design, specifically how Arab craft traditions translate into a contemporary studio practice based between Beirut and the wider world.