200 events, trade shows and treats for buyers and collectors: everything you need to know about the Dubai Design Week
While Italian design is mainly connected to industry, the Middle East entertains a far deeper relationship with the world of handicraft and the reinterpretation of traditional techniques and materials, which have been developing in the area in the course of thousands of years.
One should consider this when writing about the Dubai Design Week, as well as the fact that when we talk about the Middle East, we are referring to an incredibly extended area, composed of countries that feature huge economic, social, geographical and cultural differences. And all of them are sharing a time of great transformations that are rapidly changing their traditional image. In Dubai, and more generally in the United Arab Emirates, this is embodied by a strong impetus towards the future. An impulse which is further accelerated by the upcoming inauguration of the 2020 Universal Exposition, with a significant growth in the tourism industry, and – especially in the last few years – the rediscovery of their own cultural heritage, with the subsequent opening of brand-new museums and the enhancement of local designers and enterprises.
*source ElleDecorItalia
