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Kim Mupangilai: Memory, Material, and the Space Between Worlds

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.

Kris Van Assche: The Dior and Berluti Designer Redefining Life Beyond Fashion

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.

Elnaz Taghaddos: Architecture, Emotion, and the Art of Shaping Space with ET’STUDIO

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.

Sophia Taillet: The French Designer Reimagining Poetics of Material in Contemporary Design

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.

Holly Lucas: The Art of Experience in a Post-Disciplinary Design World with Bureau of Innovation

Holly Lucas is a cross‑disciplinary curator and creative strategist who bridges hospitality, cultural programming, and post‑disciplinary design through Bureau of Innovation (BOI). In this Emaho interview, she reflects on how BOI shapes immersive contexts for collectible furniture and objects, redefining curation as the art of experience in a world where design, art, and commerce increasingly overlap.

Pauline Leprince: The Poetry of Structure in Steel, Light, and Emotion

Parisian designer Pauline Leprince reimagines Karl Lagerfeld’s legacy through Bauhaus-infused steel, light, and emotional geometry in her Emaho interview. From École Camondo training to cinematic scenographies, she fuses avant-garde minimalism with sustainable poetry – crafting intimate, luminous sanctuaries that breathe.