< PreviousSuppliers - fabrics & carpets commercialinteriordesign.com October 2021 50 Hands Beautiful quality carpets Founded in 1881, Hands operates globally from its Dubai Design District (d3), Delhi and Mumbai showrooms, with its fine carpets housed in some of the world's most prestigious palaces, five-star hotels, and luxury residences. While Hands' mission is to create beautiful quality carpets, offering an unparalleled bespoke service, sustainability and ethical practice is at its core. All carpets are made to eco-friendly standards and the brand is proud to be Greenguard certified, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 accredited, and registered with Rugmark, Goodweave, and Care & Fair. Recently released by Hands is the nature-inspired Fractal family, created by Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner. Among Hands' additional new works are One Love, an acclaimed collection celebrating love and humanity. Born out of the Mumbai-based architect Padmini Pandey's desire to bring people together during the global pandemic last year, One Love is a unique collection of 10 rugs created by architects and designers from nine countries across five continents. A tenth carpet – a collaborative piece on which four of these designers worked together – completes the collection, which was presented at Downtown Design 2020. If your project calls for romance, L'Ornement – Hands has translated the romantic designs and dramatic patterns of Rococo furniture and architecture into a collection of seven decorative carpets, while Urbane, the second edition of the signature collection by Hands draws upon patterns and forms found within the urban landscape to create a sophisticated and versatile carpet collection of 19 new designs. #3 Ground Floor, Building 9, Dubai Design District 971 4 589 8510 info@handscarpets.ae www.handscarpets.aeSuppliers - Fabrics & carpets 51 October 2021 commercialinteriordesign.com Tapis Rouge Fine rug atelier Tapis Rouge blends traditional production techniques with boundary-breaking contemporary design to create carpets that are works of art. Each luxury rug is made from carefully sourced fi ne materials such as wool, silk, cotton and linen and is hand-knotted by a team of talented Nepalese craftsmen using ancient techniques. Founded and headquartered in Milan, Italy, the international fi ne rug atelier has offi ces in Dubai, Los Angeles and Moscow and has shown in both Milan's prestigious Rossana Orlandi gallery and Design Miami in the United States. Recently new to market is Elettrico, Tapis Rouge's new collection of 14 hand- knotted, silk and wool rugs that celebrate the beauty of natural light. Based on the philosophy of natural light spectrum, the collection of fi ve mesmerising futuristic designs harmoniously combines the smoothness of organic form, unique qualities of scientifi c creation and advanced sustainable and ethical material production to elevate and transform a piece of interior design – the rug – into a stunning work of art. 971 54 332 9440 vm@ateliertapisrouge.com www.ateliertapisrouge.comLatest products commercialinteriordesign.com October 2021 52 Lena Kassicieh Lena Kassicieh is a Palestinian- American ceramicist, photographer and mixed-media artist who has lived between the deserts of New Mexico and Jordan and is currently based in Dubai. Her work is multidisciplinary and experimental, including illustrations, ceramics, collages, sketchbooks, acrylic paintings and photographs. Maitha Bin jumah Designers like Bin Jumah and her peers responded to an open call from Dubai Design Week. As in previous years design disciplines are recognised by UAE Designer, including furniture pieces, lighting design objects, innovative accessories, jewellery and others. Designs must contribute to the local supply chain and shouldn't have been exhibited extensively before. UAE DESI Dubai Design Week reprises its showcase of local talent and home-grown design a from different levels of expertise and career stage including research, Latest products 53 October 2021 commercialinteriordesign.com Sara Alharbali Born and raised in Dubai, Sara is a trained architect and urban designer. Sara's art collection entitled 'Revelation – Spectrogram Art collection by Tajrid' is a unique concept depicting the verses of the Holy Quran in the visual representation of spectrograms. In her words, this series reflects an Arabic– Islamic character and unconventional way of expressing the blessings in Holy Words, Revelation. Omar Algurg You'll see Emirati furniture maker Algurg's work at this year's adaptation, which will take place at Downtown Editions, part of popular design fair Downtown Design Dubai. The showcase gives emerging designers the chance to benefit from top exposure from industry professionals, experts buyers and business partners based in the UAE. GNER 2.0 at Downtown Design feature a wide selection of design subjects students, makers, artisans and independent startup practicesWorld view commercialinteriordesign.com October 2021 54 WAVES OF The Expo 2020 Water Feature launches on October 1, 2021 WORLD VIEW55 October 2021 commercialinteriordesign.com Way back in 2019, Commercial Interior Design revealed that Expo 2020 would have its own unique water feature. In keeping with the city's reputation for record-breaking fountains, Expo 2020 Dubai would be getting its own special water feature, according to Ahmed Al Khatib, chief development and delivery offi cer at the Expo. The special project was a closely- guarded secret and nothing more about the feature had been revealed. Behind the scenes, one of the world leaders water entertainment design and technology was working on a project to content with a previous brief from Dubai – to create what would become the world famous Dubai Fountain experience. On October 1, 2021, the Expo 2020 Dubai Water Feature is being revealed ot the public, capping years of painstaking planning by Los Angeles-headquartered WET (Water Entertainment Technologies). Situated between Al Wasl Plaza and Jubilee Park, the Expo 2020 Water Feature combines the elements of water, earth and fi re in a way that will both surprise and delight the senses. A fi rst-of-its kind water feature innovation defi es gravity with towering water stone walls built more than four stories high or 2,000 square meters and just over four storeys high with 153 individual waves. Gravity-defying sheets of water from these 153 separate breakers tumble into a circle of fi re that switches from red, green and yellow. In keeping with Expo Need to know Expo 2020 Dubai will be held at the Dubai Exhibition Centre, at Lehbab Street in the south of the emirate. At the Expo 2020 site, you'll fi nd the Expo Water Feature across from the UAE pavilion, at Al Wasl Plaza. It will be unveiled to the general public on October 1, 2021 Im ag es : W at er E n te rt ai nm en t T ec h n ol o gi es Circle of fi re Views over the water feature 2020's theme of sustainability, these huge fl ames are of pure hydrogen and produce no carbon. At night the waves reverse themselves, producing a gravity-defying spectacle as they fl ow up the walls. Visitors coming from Al Wasl Plaza enter a 40-metre-wide garden of towering palms and fragrant plants rising above a series of curving paths that encircle the central water feature like ripples in a pond. The theme of water spectacular extends to the nearby Jubilee Park, with designs based on the wadi, a geographical feature common to the region that's a type of seasonal river that springs to life in the desert after heavy rains. Jubilee Park was designed by SWA Landscape Architects and the wider concept of the Jubilee Gardens for the total public realm was by Aecom. Looking out over it all is 'Garden in the Sky,' a 55 metres observation tower by foremost British architect Ashif Khan.World view commercialinteriordesign.com October 2021 56 What we know about Water Entertainment Technologies Los Angeles-headquartered WET (Water Entertainment Technologies) is a leader in water entertainment design and technology behind the designs of landmark water features including the Fountains at the Bellagio in Las Vegas and the world famous Dubai Fountain. Globally, WET has designed 260 features in over 20 countries around the world, including in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Along with his team, co-founder Mark Fuller, also the fi rm's president and CEO, has been working on the Expo Water Feature since 2017. WET holds more than 50 patents and has pioneered most of what the public experiences today in water features, from pool-less plaza fountains to leaping laminars, from choreographed water performers to fountains of pure fi re. www.wetdesign.com WORLD VIEWWorld view 57 October 2021 commercialinteriordesign.com Time to step into Expo 2020: tickets, timings and more At Expo 2020 you can expect to step into a world of innovation and entertainment across 182 memorable days from Friday, October 1, 2021, to Thursday, March 31, 2022. There will be up to 60 live events each day with world-class music, dance, and art, meaning you could go every day and still have something new to see. With 192 countries taking part, and each pavilion telling a different country's story, visitors to Expo 2020 will have the world at their fi ngertips. Tickets are on sale at expo2020dubai. com, with the October Pass at a special price of AED 95. Otherwise, a one day pass is AED 95, multi-day passes priced at AED 195, and season passes with unlimited entry for six months are AED 495. Entry is free for under-18s, students and 60-plus.Desired objects commercialinteriordesign.com October 2021 58 British designer William Morris is best know as the most celebrated of his era, the 19th century. He coined the still lived-by phrase "do not have anything in your houses that you do not know to be beautiful or useful" and was a leading champion of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Out of step with the Victorian times he lived in, Morris thought that the nascent Machine Age as a dehumanising industrial system that produced poor-quality 'unnatural objects.' Instead, Morris had an early affi nity with landscapes, buildings and historical romance, infl uenced by growing up in the English countryside and later taking an architectural tour of northern France. Morris is still fêted today, not only for his wallpapers and textiles but also carpets, embroideries, tapestries, tiles and book designs. The polymath founded Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co with like-minded friends, after he and wife Jane Burden moved into a house built for them by Arts and Craft movement architect Philip Webb and spent two years furnishing and decorating the interior with help from members of their artistic circle. Prompted by the success of their efforts (and the experience of 'joy in collective labour'), Morris and his friends decided in 1861 to set up their own interiors company. According to the UK-based William Morris society, the fi rm fast became William Morris The Victorian polymath died in October 1896 but his work went on to impact modern architecture and design William Morris fabrics show his typical intricate prints highly fashionable and much in demand, and it profoundly infl uenced interior decoration throughout the Victorian period, with Morris designing tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, furniture, and stained glass windows. In 1875, Morris assumed total control of the company, which was renamed Morris & Co and subsequently traded until 1940, its longevity a testament to the success of Morris's designs. Many contemporary artists and architects still look back to Morris as an inspirational fi gure and even modern masters Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius, architects who produced sleek and refi ned modernist masterpieces, freely admitted the impact of Morris's work on their early development.Next >