What an Incense Burner Taught Me About Knowledge
A few years ago, archaeologists excavating a site in Oman uncovered a fully intact ancient incense burner. Their Western colleagues had spent decades puzzling over objects like this one, cataloguin...
The beautiful object is the one you reach for every day. Zeri Crafts creates those objects. Artisans bring them to life.
Objects of Scent
The incense burner is an object with many stories to tell. How many homes has it scented? How many prayer garbs has its smoke touched?
Ours have been made by marble artisans in Jaipur, ceramicists in Italy, metalworkers in Germany — each one the result of a conversation between a designer and a craftsman that went back and forth until the object was right. They are made for daily use and for ceremony equally, because in Khaleeji culture those two things are rarely far apart.
The Tilal mubkhar sculpted by marble artisans in Jaipur is our most recent burner. Reminding us of the organic shapes of dunes, it feels precious to the hand.
Objects of Scent
Conversations on Culture
The culture we breathe
It started with an incense burner my late aunt Hessah had gifted me, one of the dozens of burners she had hoarded and hid in the deep corners of her home. The object was small - it could easily fit...
From Pleasure to Knowledge: Capturing the Olfactory Dimension of Heritage
Smell, they say, develops and triggers memories like no other sense. A whiff of fresh zaatar bread can take you back to your childhood friend’s Friday morning breakfast table while the aroma of car...
السدو.. أسلوب تفكير، وهندسة، وعمارة
السدو.. أسلوب تفكير، وهندسة، وعمارة
Sadu... a way of thinking, engineering and architecture
In December 2020, Sadu, the weaving practiced by bedouin women, was added to UNESC...
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