Iranian architect and designer Padideh Azin works at the intersection of heritage, restoration, and contemporary living. In this Emaho conversation, the co-founder of Ravagh reflects on preserving the spirit of historic Iranian spaces, balancing past and present, and why architecture in Iran must reconnect with its own cultural identity and memory.
New York-based Belgian-Congolese designer, interior architect, and Parsons School of Design educator Kim Mupangilaï works in the space where memory, identity, and material culture converge. Winner of the 2024 Boghossian Foundation International Prize, she reflects in this Emaho conversation on heritage, belonging, collectible design, and how Congolese influences and Belgian Art Nouveau shape her deeply personal design language rooted in cultural dialogue.
Belgian fashion designer and former Dior Homme and Berluti creative director Kris Van Assche reflects on reinvention, creative freedom, and life beyond luxury fashion. In this exclusive *Emaho* interview, he discusses identity, craftsmanship, design, and what two decades at fashion’s highest level ultimately taught him.
In this interview with *Emaho*, Elnaz Taghaddos reflects on architecture as an emotional language, tracing her journey from curation to founding ET’STUDIO. She discusses spatial storytelling, materiality, and the quiet power of design in shaping how people feel, connect, and experience space.
Moroccan designer Hind Magoul brings traditional zellige craftsmanship into contemporary interiors with a refined sense of modern elegance. In this Emaho interview, she discusses how hand‑cut Moroccan tiles, heritage techniques, and local artistry shape her global design language, merging cultural memory with clean, luxurious spaces.
In this Emaho interview, French designer Sophia Taillet discusses how she reimagines the poetics of material within contemporary design, moving fluidly between art, choreography, and object‑making. Trained in Paris and New York, she explores motion, gesture, and light through glass, metal, and sculptural forms, turning material intuition into a poetic language of movement and matter.
