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 and calligraphy across different art forms and disciplines. The Transcending Prayer Rug translated the geometry of Islamic prayer and the visual language of Arabic script into a handcrafted textile and marquetry work, exploring how devotion and design can share the same object. The exhibition brought together artists and designers working across different mediums united by an engagement with Arabic as a visual, spiritual, and cultural language.

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 Galerie BSL, our Parisian gallery partner. The presentation included the Gandhara Carapace Table, our collaboration with Studio Lel that brought together Beirut-based marquetry and the visual language of ancient Gandharan art from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Menart is one of the few European art fair platforms dedicated specifically to Arab and North African creative voices, making it a meaningful context for this particular work.

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 its most severe economic and political crises, Terroirs Insolites played an important role in keeping Lebanese creative work visible internationally and connecting makers in Beirut with buyers and collectors in Europe. Our participation brought a selection of our objects and furniture to new audiences in France who might otherwise have had no access to Lebanese craft at this level.