In Beirut's long conversation between hand and mind, designer Nada Debs has found a new kind of dialogue — one conducted between a master artisan's fifty years of accumulated knowledge and an algorithm trained to understand, not imitate, the deep grammar of marquetry. The resulting backgammon board, Interplay, is less a product than a proposition: that technology earns its place not by displacing human mastery, but by expanding what that mastery can imagine. It is a quiet argument, made in wood and code, for the idea that the oldest crafts survive not by resisting the future, but by teaching i