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 to create objects for the desk and home that carried the visual language of Arab craft in a quiet, understated way. What began as simple repeated forms revealed more depth the closer you looked, which was the point.

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 typically live in warm wood surfaces, here they were set into raw concrete panels, creating an unexpected dialogue between industrial material and delicate craft. The title referred both to the visual movement of the butterflies across the surface and to the broader idea of craft finding new habitats.

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, combining techniques including carving, embossing, and mother-of-pearl inlay applied directly onto leather surfaces. It was our first significant exploration of leather as a primary material, extending our craft language beyond wood into a surface that is softer, more personal, and more closely associated with the body.