Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it” – this perceptive remark by management scholar Peter Drucker is perhaps the best way to sum up the je ne sais quoi in our gallery-worthy selection of high-quality designs by celebrated brands that leads the second year of our cross-over campaign, presented to you by the Asia Designers Community (ADC).

For an edition that salutes quality design, five home-grown designers and members of the ADC paired up with six innovative brands – spanning realms from homeware and electronics to fine art – to discover the intrinsic qualities demonstrated in the products that design professionals turn to time and time again.