Small Talk

We had the pleasure of having Lukas Scherrer, an incredible industrial designer, with us for a few days in Abu Dhabi, spending time with the team and sharing incredibly valuable insights on design, process and how to make really really cool objects. Here’s just a tiny bit of the goodness that we go from his visit.

Our first special edition Small Talk is…special, because it’s live from the newly opened Tokyo Outpost, right in the heart of one of the world’s most interesting cities.Nuno, the one who normally interviews is on the other side of the mic, unpacking what we’re doing in Tokyo and how we hope it will contribute to contemporary design in Abu Dhabi.

If you’ve been around us for a while you know that we’re huge fans of Vitra and the world of good design they’ve crafted around themselves. So it was very cool to have Vitra VP Heiko Stahl join Nuno at the Small Talk table and chat through everything from design to the future of offices. He also had really cool socks, which you can't see on the audio, but you can imagine - they were orange. Enjoy.

If you’re going to talk design, art, culture, architecture and the identity of Abu Dhabi and the UAE then one person you have to have at the microphone is Her Excellency Noura al Kaabi. Her influence and impact in shaping the creative scene here is exceptional and this Small Talk was the perfect setting to explore a little bit of that.

After a few near misses (good ones, not bad ones) we finally managed to get Nuno at the table with Kjetil Thorsen, co-founder of Snøhetta, and someone who we greatly admire.Having heard a lot of good conversations between Kjetil and Nuno over the past couple of years it is great to finally have one on tape, recorded live at Final Draft 2025