Kristina Zanic returns to the podcast for an encore interview fresh off stage at Downtown Design Dubai 2021.  She talks about the future of flexible spaces and the perseverance required to get through the last 2 years.  She also touches on how her firm contributes towards the ever growing conversation and actions required to create a more sustainable future.

This interview is part of The Wood Couture Podcast, Dubai Design Week Special with LASVIT where Filippo Sona speaks with industry experts visiting Downtown Design, to bring amazing insights on the latest topics affecting the design and hospitality.

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Sebastian Herkner founded Studio Sebastian Herkner fresh out of university in Offenbach, Germany. He is passionate about balancing sensibilities in creating quality products. Sebastian joins Wood Couture Co-founder and podcast host Filippo Sona at the LASVIT booth at the Downtown Design exhibition in Dubai.

In this video, Sebastian describes how consuming and producing products is changing. He talks about how quality is being redefined by the times, the role lighting plays in the unique spaces designers create and his thoughts on Dubai Design Week’s theme on sustainability.

This interview is part of The Wood Couture Podcast, Dubai Design Week Special with LASVIT where Filippo Sona speaks with industry experts visiting Downtown Design, to bring amazing insights on the latest topics affecting the design and hospitality.

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Vera Dieckmann is the CEO and Creative Director of XO Atelier.  She joins Wood Couture Co-founder and podcast host Filippo Sona at the LASVIT booth at the Downtown Design exhibition in Dubai.

In this interview, Vera speaks about the vibrance of the industry and the new brands and influencers entering the space.  She also makes a great point about the use of light as we enter the new normal.

This interview is part of The Wood Couture Podcast, Dubai Design Week Special with LASVIT where Filippo Sona speaks with industry experts visiting Downtown Design, to bring amazing insights on the latest topics affecting the design and hospitality.

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Rock Galpin is Design Director at Rock Galpin Studio in London.  He joins Wood Couture Co-founder and podcast host Filippo Sona at the LASVIT booth at the Downtown Design exhibition in Dubai.

In this interview he shares how sustainability starts with products that are designed to last.  He also makes an incredible point about stopping the design process to consciously focus on price and value engineering.  As far as 2022, he expands on how the last few years have brought us back to our “true needs”.  A great interview with an incredible contributor to our industry.

This interview is part of The Wood Couture Podcast, Dubai Design Week Special with LASVIT where Filippo Sona speaks with industry experts visiting Downtown Design, to bring amazing insights on the latest topics affecting the design and hospitality.

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Sonal Kotecha is founder of Rumah Interiors in Dubai. She joins Wood Couture Co-founder and podcast host Filippo Sona at the LASVIT booth at the Downtown Design exhibition in Dubai.

In this interview she shares how conveying sustainability to clients remains the responsibility of an interior designer and a trend that has seen her residential clients renting out their properties as holiday homes.  She also shares how her business grew in 2020 thanks to e-design services and cloud technology, allowing her to service clients from New York to Nairobi with a remote team.

This interview is part of The Wood Couture Podcast, Dubai Design Week Special with LASVIT where Filippo Sona speaks with industry experts visiting Downtown Design, to bring amazing insights on the latest topics affecting the design and hospitality.

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David Ross is the Director of Downtown Design. He is a lifelong design lover with a passion for bringing people together. David joins Wood Couture Co-founder and podcast host Filippo Sona at the LASVIT booth at the Downtown Design exhibition in Dubai.

David reflected on the importance of physical interactions in contrast to the challenges in connectivity as a result of the global pandemic. He also spoke about how Dubai Design Week’s Theme on sustainability supports the diversity at this year’s fair.

This interview is part of The Wood Couture Podcast, Dubai Design Week Special with LASVIT where Filippo Sona speaks with industry experts visiting Downtown Design, to bring amazing insights on the latest topics affecting the design and hospitality.

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Petr Santrucek is Project Consultant at LASVIT, our collaborators for a special Downtown Design Dubai series of the Wood Couture Podcast.  Petr points to a new world of technology and lighting that will enable LASVIT to light interiors with their fantastic art pieces, but also the external facade of a building.

This interview is part of The Wood Couture Podcast, Dubai Design Week Special with LASVIT where Filippo Sona speaks with industry experts visiting Downtown Design, to bring amazing insights on the latest topics affecting the design and hospitality.

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David T'Kint is a former Partner at the global design firm Hirsch Bedner and Associates (HBA). Driven by the passion for Lifestyle Hospitality, David launched a design studio under his name in 2021. He joins Wood Couture Co-founder and podcast host Filippo Sona at the LASVIT booth at the Downtown Design exhibition in Dubai.

David is a great believer in curating experience and approaches each project as a unique venture to tell a story through design. This is common ground he found with LASVIT while working on projects such as the Raffles - Jakarta, Kempinski - Beirut and Ritz Carlton - London. David sees the future in wellness and sustainability to such a degree that he integrates these principles into his studio’s contracts. He declares that these “trends” are turning into necessities in the coming years and that embracing value-engineering helps achieve the intended design narratives and client goals.

This interview is part of The Wood Couture Podcast, Dubai Design Week Special with LASVIT where Filippo Sona speaks with industry experts visiting Downtown Design, to bring amazing insights on the latest topics affecting the design and hospitality.

Rakan Jandali has been with KCA International for 14 years in various roles, and is currently Design Associate. He joins Wood Couture Co-founder and podcast host Filippo Sona at the LASVIT booth at the Downtown Design exhibition in Dubai.

Rakan is a close collaborator of LASVIT. He shares how sustainability has been shaping client requirements lately and his lessons on adaptability from the global pandemic. He believes that the industry is trending towards integrating technology, biophilic design and minimalism, and explains the impact that lighting can have on all these trends.

This interview is part of The Wood Couture Podcast, Dubai Design Week Special with LASVIT where Filippo Sona speaks with industry experts visiting Downtown Design, to bring amazing insights on the latest topics affecting the design and hospitality.

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Lukas Cerny is the General Manager of LASVIT in Middle East and Southeast Asia. Extremely passionate about how people experience a space, Lukas shares with Wood Couture Co-founder, Filippo Sona, what lighting brings to the table. He talks about this years’ exhibition at Downtown Design - the new LASVIT ICON, Cipher, in collaboration with the legendary design duo Yabu Pushelberg; The Spacey Table Lamp, a taste of Czech bohemian glass craft by Lukas Novak and A:Live, the inspired kinetic installation by Stefan Mihailovic.

Lukas also shares us his thoughts on Dubai Design Week’s Sustainability Theme and lets us in on some of the exciting projects LASVIT is working on for 2022 including art for the new Four Seasons in Saudi Arabia,  the Doha Airport and hospitality projects in Qatar in preparation for the World Cup.

This interview is part of The Wood Couture Podcast, Dubai Design Week Special with LASVIT where Filippo Sona speaks with industry experts visiting Downtown Design to bring amazing insights on the latest topics affecting design and hospitality.

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