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In the morning I design, at lunchtime I experiment, and in the evening I make.
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This November, NOMAD Abu Dhabi presents Destinations by Bottega Veneta, celebrating fifty years of the house’s Intrecciato leather weave.

Curated by Rana Beiruti, Destinations features eight designers from North Africa and the Middle East, each commissioned to reinterpret Bottega Veneta’s signature craft with local materials and ancestral techniques. The exhibition includes innovative leather pieces, sculptural works, and furnishings that each represent different places, traditions, and perspectives, while together reflecting Bottega Veneta’s commitment to cultural exchange and craft in all its forms.

Abdalla Almulla grounds Emirati weaving traditions in sculptural communal forms, while Amine Asselman’s leather landscapes ripple with motion and memory. Bahraini—danish transforms teak into interlocking structures of precision and patience. Esna Su’s hand-knitted leather pillars embody resilience and reinvention, while Shaha Raphael fossilizes the weave in volcanic stone, binding craft to geological time. Zein Daouk’s ceramics trace living networks of interdependence, and Nader Gammas builds luminous totems that bridge craft and technology. Finally, Sayar & Garibeh weave fiber and leather into playful architectures of movement and touch.

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Rosalind Price-Cousins (@rosalindp_c), Talent Development Coordinator, picks Esna Su from the #CCDirectory “I love Esna's use of traditional Turkish weaving, twining and crochet skills to create such unusual and moving body sculptures that work as extraordinary extensions of the body, I think they must feel incredible to wear! I am particularly drawn to her choice of materials, which work so well to create mesmerising constructed forms, seemingly durable and fragile all at once. Exploring identity, memory and harrowing subjects such as the refugee crisis in her work, Esna's pieces are evocative and surreal, yet always deeply beautiful.

As Talent Development Coordinator, I work on the resources, workshops and programmes we run to support and champion the remarkable craft makers across the UK, helping them to develop, promote and sell their work (I also dabble in knitting on the side!).” Click the link in our bio to head to Esna's Directory.

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1 – The Refugee. Photographer – Esna Su. Twining, weaving, paper rush
2 - The Refugee I’ Collection image by John Mcgrath
3 - The Burden II’ “My Trousseau” image by John Mcgrath
4 - When The Nest Falls- performance/installation photo ferhatelik by Esna Su

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