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.

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, a landmark building long associated with the Lebanese capital's history and identity. It was a small, considered work: a nod to home and belonging at a moment when both felt fragile.

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.