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Event Info
Event type: Talk
Design Disciplines:
Architecture Interior Design
When:
May 17 | 11am–1pm
Where:
PUBLIC Hotel
215 Chrystie Street
2nd Floor Lounge
New York NY 10002
Neighborhood:
Manhattan - SoHo
Organizer:
PUBLIC Hotel
Accessibility:
Wheelchair Accessible
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NYCxDESIGN Talk The Thinking Hand: Preserving Heritage Through the Art of Craftsmanship

The Thinking Hand:
Preserving Heritage Through the Art of Craftsmanship

Sunday, May 17th

11:00 am - 1:00 pm
PUBLIC Hotel New York
An Ian Schrager Hotel
215 Chrystie Street
2nd Floor Lounge

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the future of design and production, this panel brings attention to something equally powerful: the enduring intelligence of the human hand. Featuring leaders from renowned manufacturers and designers in Italy, France, the USA, and Portugal, the discussion will explore how centuries-old traditions of craft—material knowledge, artisanal skill, and the human touch—continue to inform and shape contemporary furnishings and design culture today.

Join us for light brunch bites hosted by PUBLIC Hotel.

Presenters: 

Carlos Santos, Founder and CEO FRATO 
Enrico Bonetti, Bonetti Kozerski Architecture 
Charles Jouffre, CEO, Jouffre
Caterina Fabrizio / Owner, Dedar 

Moderator:
Ingrid Abramovitch 

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Enrico Bonetti, AIA, Bio
Bonetti Kozerski Architecture
Enrico Bonetti, AIA, Bio
Bonetti Kozerski Architecture

Enrico Bonetti was born in Bologna, Italy. He studied architecture in Venice where he graduated under the guidance of the late architect Aldo Rossi. He lives in New York.

Founded in New York City in 2000, Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture works across hospitality, residential, cultural, commercial, and custom yacht commissions. The studio creates architecture, interiors, objects, and environments that blend warm minimalism with understated luxury. The calm clarity of their spaces reflects a design process shaped by a process that is grounded in discipline and reduction. This approach emphasizes materiality, refined forms, light and context.

Carlos Santos
Founder and CEO FRATO
Carlos Santos
Founder and CEO FRATO

Carlos Santos is the founder and CEO of Frato Interiors, a globally recognized luxury furniture and interiors brand. Based between London and Portugal, he leads the company’s creative direction, shaping collections that blend contemporary elegance with fine craftsmanship.

With a background in economics and international business, Santos brings a strategic, globally minded approach to design. Under his leadership, Frato has expanded internationally, with showrooms and projects across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. His work emphasizes refined materials, architectural influences, and a sophisticated, modern lifestyle aesthetic.

Charles Jouffre
CEO, Jouffre
Charles Jouffre
CEO, Jouffre

Charles, upholsterer by trade and training, founded Jouffre in 1987 after working 5 years for André Paccard, an extremely renowned decorator at the time whose main client was his highness Hassan II, king of Morocco.

Charles was in charge of the upholstery and window treatment departement for may years and spent two years renovating Agadir Palace. Whe he felt like the time has come, he created his own ateliers in the city of Lyon, France. His first client was Mr André Paccard but he also very quickly convinced world famous interior designers like Jacques Garcia, Jacques Grange or Alberto Pinto to collaborate with him.

Charles was ambition was to become the main upholsterer of the best interior designers in the world and he soon took the company international, developing its reputation and aura thanks to his love of the craft, his high standards and his vision for excellence. In 2001, he incorporated Jouffre Inc in New York and started working for Juan Pablo Molyneux who became the biggest clients of Jouffre for more than a decade.

Now retired, Charles is available to help the company develop and create iconic pieces. He also represents the company within his humongous network and at the highest level of the state of France.

Digest, the New York Times, Puck and several other publications.

Caterina Fabrizio
Owner, Dedar
Caterina Fabrizio
Owner, Dedar

Caterina, together with her brother Raffaele, represents the second generation of the Fabrizio’s family which in 1976 founded Dedar, a leading Italian company producing contemporary fabrics, wallcoverings and trimmings. Caterina, with her own personal, versatile and sensitive approach to life and business, truly epitomizes the brand spirit. During her studies in international economics and politics, Caterina traveled and studied abroad and, once graduated, she worked as business consultant. But her passion for fabrics prevailed. She finally decided to enter the Dedar’s world more than 20 years ago. Her work focuses on the company business development and she is involved with her brother in the on-going search for inspiration. During the last decade Dedar has grown internationally in the segment of fabrics for interiors, becoming a reference in the design community.

Ingrid Abramovitch
Moderator
Ingrid Abramovitch
Moderator

Ingrid Abramovitch is a New York City-based journalist and editor who specializes in design and everything it intersects—from interiors to the decorative arts, culture, travel and lifestyle. The former Executive Editor at Elle Decor, she has written about everything from the restoration of the Frick Collection to the sets of movies like Downton Abbey, and interviewed a who’s who of the design world, from Axel Vervoordt to Annabelle Selldorf. She has written several books about interior design, including her own Restoring a House in the City (Artisan Books), and now contributes to Architectural Digest, the New York Times, Puck and several other publications. 

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