Presented by Fromm.Lab at the Doha Design Biennale, the exhibition invites visitors to experience how Arab craft, rituals, and traditions are woven into global design conversations by reimagining heritage through a contemporary cross-cultural lens, with furniture and objects acting as points of encounter and translation.
The exhibition brings together twelve furniture and object projects developed through a curated international competition. Rather than being viewed in isolation, they are presented together in three interwoven chapters: making, place, and rituals. These themes reflect how design comes into being, how it relates to the environments they inhabit, and how it carries everyday gestures and collective practices across time.
For centuries, Arab cultures have stood at the crossroads of trade and craftsmanship while absorbing, transforming, and passing ideas between East and West. This history of exchange continues to shape contemporary Arab design today: an identity in motion, open to influence yet grounded in memory, where the act of making becomes a way of belonging in a wider world.
In Interlaced, this heritage unfolds through intertwined cultural viewpoints and practices: Arab identity appears as a living weave, continuously reimagined through contemporary design.