The Archive
It was during a covid lockdown in 2021 that I found the family archive: hundreds of folders holding thousands of letters dating back to the 1940s and 50s, plus dozens of accounting books, stacked n...
The beautiful object is the one you reach for every day. Zeri Crafts honors the knowledge and the hands that make it.
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 refined until the object was right. 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.
Sandooq Plates
Inspired by the geometry of traditional sandooq chests, Stamperia Bertozzi hand crafts these porcelain plates with delicate gold stencil motifs.
Conversations on Culture
The time it takes: a visit to Kiton
A friend recently invited me to tour the Kiton production facility in Naples. A few hundred artisans work here, divided by specialty - cutters, stitchers, tailors, shirt makers, shoemakers, among o...
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 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...
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Salmiyah, Baghdad Street,
Lane 5, House 21 (next to Dar Hamad),
Kuwait
Sat–Thur: 10:30am – 7:30pm
Fridays closed
