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Enthusiasm Remains High as Dubai Design Week and Design Doha Biennale Kick Off

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Enthusiasm Remains High as Dubai Design Week and Design Doha Biennale Kick Off

For the home and interiors industry, the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has cast a shadow over the prospects for the global design and interiors market, but new launches and openings abound as the region’s design season begins.

MILAN — The ongoing crisis may have negatively impacted trade and commerce to the Middle East, but it has not dampened the enthusiasm driving new creativity.

Dubai Design Week will return Tuesday and will close Nov. 8 with participants from more than 50 countries, anchored by the UAE Designer Exhibition, supported by Dubai Culture, which will unfold under the theme Inherited Futures. With architect and designer AlZaina Lootah as 2026 Design Collaborator, the exhibition brings together UAE-based designers to consider how inherited materials, rituals, technologies and ways of making can be interpreted through contemporary design.

Design Doha Biennial 2026 will open Thursday and present more than 15 exhibitions, featuring designers, studios, institutions and collectives from the MENASA region (Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian) and beyond.

The UAE Designer Exhibition will return to Downtown Design with a lineup of works by 30 UAE-based creatives, spanning furniture, lighting, objects and experimental materials.

Titled “Inherited Futures” and conceived by architect and designer AlZaina Lootah, this year’s showcase will explore how the past can shape what comes next.

Yinka Ilori, a British-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist, designer and entrepreneur, will bring his ethos and prints that spark joy to the Emirates capital on Tuesday.

Veuve Clicquot will unveil a lounge inspired by his designs envisaged to complement the Champagne house’s Yellow Label and Rosé cuvées.


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