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 objects. Wood offcuts, broken inlay pieces, and damaged materials were reconnected through craft, each piece becoming a record of what had happened and evidence of what was still possible. It was a deeply personal response to a collective tragedy, and the hashtag became a way of sharing that act of rebuilding with others.

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 material. The project asked us to think about craft and decoration at a scale and in a material very different from our usual wood-based work. It was an exploration of where the boundary between surface, material, and design begins to dissolve.

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 preserving and evolving traditional Emirati crafts. The collection brought together two distinct making traditions: Talli, the intricate metallic thread weaving practised by Emirati women for generations, and our signature marquetry inlay. The Zenobie vases became the meeting point for these two crafts, separated by geography but connected by a shared discipline of precision and pattern.