CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS
Guest speakers: David Raffoul and Nicolas Moussallem, David/Nicolas and Pierre Frey, communications director, Pierre Frey
Chair: Charlotte Abrahams
Young and talented Lebanese designers david/nicolas have teamed up with Pierre Frey to create the Verso furniture collection. Discover how the creative collaboration focused on the theme of travel and the great transatlantic liners of the 1930s and 1950s, including those decorated by René Prou, Pierre’s great, great grandfather. Find out how they boldly reinterpreted this family legacy in a contemporary way, combining comfort and craftsmanship with an eclectic mix of pattern, colour, shape and materials.

Guest speaker: Ray Booth, interior designer
Chair: Charlotte Abrahams
Renowned US interior designer Ray Booth explores the secrets of his creative collaboration with Arteriors. Discover how the blurring the lines between past and present and the use of quality materials can create strikingly evocative pieces that exude modernism, while reflecting a sense of place and history.

Guest speakers: Nate Berkus, interior designer and Scott Kravet, chief creative director, Kravet
Chair: Charlotte Abrahams
With so much travel currently on pause, take a journey from the comfort of home with influential US interior designer Nate Berkus and Scott Kravet, chief creative director of Kravet. Discover why it is the places that Nate has been to, as well as inspirations drawn from history, architecture, art and craftsmanship techniques from around the globe, that bring new perspectives to the patterns and textures in the Well-Traveled collection.

CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS
Guest speakers: Dara Caponigro, creative director, Schumacher - exclusively distributed by Turnell & Gigon
Chair: Charlotte Abrahams
Get the inside track from creative director Dara Caponigro at this celebration of Schumacher and delight in the sheer joy of pattern.

DISCOVER OREJEN

Guest speakers: Rayman Boozer, principal designer of Apartment 48 and Beth Diana Smith, owner and principal designer of Beth Diana Smith Interior Design
Chair: Charlotte Abrahams
If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going.” Amplifying Maya Angelou’s famous sentiment surrounding ancestral roots and inspired beginnings are The Black Artists + Designers Guild (BADG), which has teamed with S. Harris to create a debut collection of artisanal textiles, wallcoverings and trimmings centered around history and heritage. Join two of the BADG members - both accomplished US interior designers – who collaborated on this unique project, taking us on a transportive, tactile journey through the peaks and valleys of Bhutan, the equatorial shores of Zanzibar and the far reaches of New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

ARCHITECTURE MEETS CRAFT
Guest speakers: Andrew Kotchen, Matthew D. Berman, founders, Workshop APD and Charlotte Abrahams
For Arteriors' latest collection, it chose to partner with New York based architecture and design firm Workshop APD. Learn from the studio's founding principals how they brought Workshop APD's signature Crafted Modern approach to Arteriors' portfolio, and discover how traditional acts of making drove the creation of every piece, from rippled, curved glass to hand-worked clay and glazed ceramics. 

COLLECTIBLE DESIGN – ARTISTRY MEETS ENGINEERING
Guest speakers: Staffan Tollgård, founder, Tollgard, and Simon Brown and Jessica Barrington, The Refined Workshop
Chair: Charlotte Abrahams
Design that pushes the limits of a material can be elevated to the status of functional sculpture. Find out how a designer and pioneering stonemasons discovered a shared love of marble, authentic craft and design excellence, and how this led to an extraordinary collection of precious marble furniture. Achieving incredibly complexity with apparent simplicity, these new pieces demonstrate the coming together of artistry, engineering and creativity, showing the heights that design can reach when a specialist workshop meets an inquiring mind.