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The Homo Faber Guide celebrates excellence in craftsmanship, bringing visibility to exceptional artisans, designers and makers who preserve traditional skills while giving them contemporary relevance. Nada Debs’ Clear Octagonal Table has been recommended

The WA Collective is a personal initiative by Nada Debs, born from her travels and encounters with artisans and designers around the world. Each piece introduced into the platform carries with

We were invited by Louis Vuitton to participate in LV Mirage, the French luxury house's first platform dedicated to artistic collaborations between the brand and designers working outside its own creative ecosystem.

For Ramadan 2026, we transformed part of our Alserkal Avenue boutique in Dubai into the Ochaya Majlis, a contemplative gathering space created in collaboration with de Gournay, the British luxury wallcovering brand

We opened our first boutique at Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, the cultural district that has become home to some of the UAE's most important contemporary art galleries and creative spaces. The boutique

We completed the interior renovation of the Okhun Gozar Mosque in Uzbekistan, a historic place of worship that required careful, respectful intervention to restore its spiritual atmosphere while introducing contemporary craft elements.

We collaborated with Laederach, the Swiss luxury chocolate maker known for its precision craftsmanship and high-quality ingredients, to create a limited-edition holiday offering that brought our design language into the context of

We opened a new dedicated bar space within Studio Nada Debs, our Beirut studio and showroom, and marked the occasion with an intimate gathering for the design community, collectors, and friends. The

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

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

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

Nakhla was an installation we presented at Maraya Art Centre in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, one of the region's most striking cultural venues built entirely from mirrored panels that reflect the surrounding desert

We were invited by The Conran Shop, the iconic British design retailer founded by Sir Terence Conran and known for championing quality design for the home, to give a talk at their

We presented a sensory installation at Osaka Expo 2025, the world's largest international exposition bringing together nations and cultures in Japan, in collaboration with Uzbek craftspeople whose making traditions we had first

In collaboration with Em Sherif, the celebrated Lebanese restaurant group known for reviving traditional Levantine cuisine with theatrical presentation, we transformed the maamoul into a multi-sensory design experience under the name OKASHI.

Breathing new life into the traditional Uzbek tapchan for ACDF in Uzbekistan with the introduction of Qosh — a contemporary reinterpretation of the iconic outdoor seating piece. Working closely with Sirojiddin Rakhmatillaev,

We were named in Identity Magazine's Top 50, an annual list published by one of the Middle East's leading design and architecture publications recognising the most significant voices shaping the region's creative

We collaborated with Stouls, the Paris-based luxury leather brand known for its innovative use of exotic and rare skins in high-end ready-to-wear, to create a collection that brought marquetry and leather into

For the third consecutive year, we were named in AD Middle East's AD100 list, Architectural Digest's annual ranking of the most influential and respected designers in architecture, interiors, and product design across

For the third consecutive year, we were named among AD100's Best Designers in the Middle East and North Africa, the annual Architectural Digest ranking celebrating the most influential voices in design across

At Design Doha, Qatar's biennial design platform bringing together designers, curators, and institutions from across the Arab world and beyond, we joined the Living the Dream: Arab Design Now panel discussion. The

For Eid al-Adha 2024, we collaborated with Dior Beauty to create a series of limited-edition fragrance cases for their La Collection Privee line. Each case was handcrafted in our Beirut studio using

Following our Grand Prix d'Honneur award in 2023, we were invited to serve as President of the Jury for the Institut du Monde Arabe Design Prize 2024 in Paris. The prize recognises

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

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

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

SWIRLMANIA was a collection of handcrafted occasional tables we unveiled at We Design Beirut 2024, the annual design festival that brings together Lebanese and international designers across venues throughout the city. Each

We participated in Doppia Firma, an annual initiative at Milan Design Week that pairs furniture designers with master artisans to create one-of-a-kind pieces that celebrate the intersection of design thinking and craft

At the Design Doha Biennial 2024, Qatar's platform for global design exchange, we worked with Sirojiddin Rahmatillaev, an Uzbek master craftsman known for his expertise in the tapchan, a traditional low outdoor

The Gandhara Carapace Collection, our ongoing collaboration with Studio Lel, the practice founded by Pakistani-British designer Zara Latif, was unveiled in full at Design Miami through Galerie BSL. The collection brought together

We created the Crafted Mandala for the Life Lebanon Global Gala Dinner 2023, an annual fundraising event supporting the LIFE Education System, an initiative providing quality education to underprivileged children across Lebanon.

For Downtown Design Dubai 2023, we created an installation in collaboration with Kohler Middle East to mark the American brand's 150th anniversary. The installation was conceived as a meditation on water as

We participated in The Candle Project, an initiative by House of Today, a Beirut-based organisation dedicated to nurturing emerging Lebanese design talent, that brought together 10 Lebanese designers to create a series

Our Transcending Prayer Rug was included in Scripts and Calligraphy: Paths to the Soul, an exhibition at Madina Art Center in Saudi Arabia exploring the spiritual and artistic dimensions of Arabic script

At Menart Fair in Paris, held at the Palais d'Iena and dedicated to modern and contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa, we presented a curated selection of works through

We participated in Terroirs Insolites, a Paris-based platform and showroom dedicated to showcasing the finest Lebanese craft and design to European audiences. At a time when Lebanon was going through one of

We were awarded the Grand Prix d'Honneur by the Institut du Monde Arabe, a leading cultural institution in Paris dedicated to promoting Arab art, history, and culture in the West. It was

We designed the From Sunrise to Sunset collection exclusively for THAT Concept Store, a Dubai-based retail destination known for bringing together the work of emerging and established designers from the region and

We were invited to design one of eight rooms at Beit Tamanna, a dream-like guesthouse created in the Gemmayzeh neighbourhood of Beirut by 13 Lebanese and international designers, each given complete creative

We exhibited the Stitched Horizons collection at Galerie BSL in Paris as part of Rebellious Connections, a group show curated around the idea of design that challenges boundaries between craft, art, and

We contributed to the Upcycling Tree Art initiative by Green Cedar Lebanon, an environmental organisation dedicated to reforestation and ecological restoration across the country. Using colourful wood veneer and tin inlay applied

We were featured in Mojeh Magazine, a leading luxury and fashion publication based in the Gulf, in a conversation about craft, identity, and what it means to make objects rooted in a

Our work was included in a touring edition of Beirut: The Eras of Design, a landmark exhibition tracing the political, social, and cultural forces that shaped Lebanese design from the post-war period

We collaborated with Studio Lel, founded by Pakistani-British designer Zara Latif and known for its exploration of the ancient Gandharan artistic tradition that flourished along the Silk Road, to reimagine our signature

At PAD Design Art in Paris, one of Europe's most prestigious fairs for design, art, and decorative arts, we presented the Gandhara Carapace table through Galerie BSL, the Paris-based gallery that represents

We were featured in INFINITI's Makers Series, a content and storytelling platform created by the Japanese luxury car brand to celebrate craftspeople around the world who were pushing the boundaries of their

At Design Miami 2022, the world's leading fair for collectible design, we collaborated with Kohler, the American plumbing and bath brand, to create a large-scale installation reimagining the traditional hammam, the communal

The Transcendence tiles, our handcrafted ceramic tile collection created in collaboration with Kohler's WasteLAB programme, were awarded the Sustainable Standout Silver award at KBIS 2023, one of North America's largest kitchen and

To mark our 20th anniversary as a studio, we presented a special collection at Downtown Design, Dubai's leading platform for contemporary design from the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. The presentation

We exhibited our accessories collection at Creative Nation 961 in Abu Dhabi, an initiative established under the patronage of the Lebanese Business Council to champion and promote Lebanese creative talent across the

We were recognised at the AD Design Awards, presented by Architectural Digest Middle East, one of the region's most respected platforms for architecture, interiors, and product design. The award came as we

Our work was included in Beirut: The Eras of Design, a major exhibition held at CID Grand-Hornu in Belgium, a leading European centre for design culture, tracing the history and distinct identity

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

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

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

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

Ataya is an annual exhibition in Beirut that invites designers and artists to contribute works in support of humanitarian causes. We contributed a piece that quietly referenced the rose-coloured mansion overlooking Beirut,

Following the Beirut port explosion of August 2020, which severely damaged our studio along with much of the surrounding neighbourhood, we gathered the fragments and debris left behind and remade them into

We collaborated with Cosentino, the Spanish surface materials company known for their high-performance stone, porcelain, and quartz products, on a capsule collection exploring the possibilities of Dekton Slim, their ultra-thin large-format surface

At Design Miami/Podium x Shanghai, a satellite edition of the world's leading collectible design fair, we presented the Zenobie collection in collaboration with Irthi Contemporary Craft Council, an Emirati organisation dedicated to

We designed a collection of desk sets and decorative trays for Exil Collective, a creative platform that brings together designers from the Lebanese diaspora. The pieces used geometric pattern and precise woodwork

Migration of the Butterflies was a design experiment that took one of our most recognisable motifs, the mother-of-pearl butterfly, and applied it to an entirely new material: concrete. Where our butterfly inlays

The Horizon Collection was a line of handcrafted leather accessories and objects inspired by the meeting point of land, water, and sky. Each piece was worked by hand in our Beirut studio,

Plug-Ins was a collection of cigar ashtrays made from wood and marble, each designed as a considered object in its own right rather than purely a functional accessory. The pieces drew on

We collaborated with The Flower Society, a Beirut-based floral design studio known for its conceptual approach to flowers and natural materials, to create three bespoke vase collections. Each collection was built around

The Vitrine was a ground-floor boutique we opened in Beirut in the aftermath of the 2020 port explosion that devastated much of the city. We kept the physical damage visible, cracked walls

For Roads for Life, a Lebanese non-profit working to reduce road accident fatalities, we created the Life Cabinet as part of their annual charity auction. The piece reimagined the medicine cabinet as

We were commissioned by the Ministry of Presidential Affairs of the UAE to lead the renovation of the Arab League Hall in Cairo, one of the Arab world's most symbolically significant diplomatic

Back to Basics was a collection we released in early 2020, revisiting some of our best-known furniture and object designs in a reduced black and white palette. In a year that brought

At Abu Dhabi Art 2019, one of the Gulf's leading fairs for modern and contemporary art, we presented the On Belonging collection through 81 Design, a platform dedicated to collectible Arab design.

We partnered with IKEA to create LJUV, a limited-edition collection of home accessories that brought contemporary Middle Eastern geometry into everyday life. Working within IKEA's framework for accessible, functional design, we developed

MarquetryMania was a collection that pushed our signature marquetry and parquetry work to a more playful, experimental place. We applied linear geometric patterns to rounded, unexpected forms, combined bold colour pairings, and

At Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy's most prestigious furniture and design fair, Fratelli Rossetti, the historic Italian luxury shoe brand founded in 1953, presented a limited-edition boot featuring a heel co-designed