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SILSAL.COM SILSAL.COM EMAIL: [email protected] MOB: +971568285283 TEL: +97143643822 P.O.BOX 125961,DUBAI,UAE BUILDING 6,OFFICEA207 DUBAI DESIGNDISTRICT Silsal Design House produces a variety of creative tableware and accessories accessories and tableware creative of variety a produces House Design Silsal for the home, including dinnerware, serveware, drink-ware and gift items. It’s items. gift and drink-ware serveware, dinnerware, including home, the for a place where art and function collide, and where quality and accessibility accessibility and quality where and collide, function and art where place a go hand in hand. The Silsal ethos is rooted in the belief that art should be be should art that belief the in rooted is ethos Silsal The hand. in hand go everywhere; decorating tabletops and homes. It’s the idea that beauty can can beauty It’s that idea homes. the and tabletops decorating everywhere; infuse everyday life and everyday objects. everyday and life everyday infuse Silsal inspires and excites with collections that draw upon the Middle East’s Middle rich the upon draw that collections with excites and inspires Silsal artistic heritage, bringing the charm of a bygone era into the modern home. home. modern the into era bygone a of charm the bringing heritage, artistic Simple functionality, extraordinary quality, and artistic expression are the the are expression quality,artistic and extraordinary functionality, Simple foundations of their philosophy. What sets Silsal apart from its contemporaries contemporaries its from apart Silsal sets philosophy.What their of foundations is the firm belief that beautiful design shouldn’t be aspirational, but attainable. attainable. but aspirational, be shouldn’t design beautiful that belief firm the is Silsal works tirelessly to ensure prices are affordable, while remaining remaining while affordable, are prices ensure to tirelessly works Silsal rigorously faithful to quality and craftsmanship. and quality to faithful rigorously Silsal collections reflect a love of the Middle East, drawing inspiration from the the from inspiration drawing East, Middle the of love a reflect collections Silsal people, places and cultures of the region. Contrast is fundamental throughout throughout fundamental is Contrast region. the of cultures and places people, the collections, both in terms of materials and colours. Historical calligraphy is is calligraphy Historical colours. and materials of terms in both collections, the offset against modern acrylics, while vibrant pops of colour offset traditional traditional offset colour of pops vibrant while acrylics, modern against offset white porcelain. What remains consistent is Silsal’s signature aesthetic: shapes shapes Silsal’saesthetic: is signature consistent remains What porcelain. white are effortless, forms are free, and each piece is unmistakably unique. unmistakably is piece each and free, are forms effortless, are ABOUT US

1 2 The novelty of Ghida lies in the power of calligraphy as an artistic and and artistic an as calligraphy Arabic of power the in lies Ghida of novelty The communicative tool. The collection revolves around the use of ‘’ script, script, ‘Thuluth’ of use the around revolves collection The tool. communicative one of the richest scripts of the Islamic world. The beauty of this collection collection this of beauty The world. Islamic the of scripts richest the of one lies in the clustered and elongated Arabic letter ‘Alif’ that stand ‘at attention. attention. ‘at stand that ‘Alif’ letter Arabic elongated and clustered the in lies Silsal’s designers chose to adorn the pieces with wishes of happiness, happiness, of wishes with pieces the adorn to chose Silsal’sdesigners blessings, longevity, light, and health to the owner/receiver of the piece. the of owner/receiver the to health and longevity, light, blessings, Historically, calligraphy was treated as an art and was often applied on a wide wide a on applied often was and art an as treated was Historically,calligraphy range of decorative mediums such as tiles, vessels, carpets and even coins. coins. even and carpets vessels, tiles, as such mediums decorative of range By around the 10th century, the Persians began weaving inscriptions onto onto inscriptions weaving began Persians century, the 10th the around By elaborately pattered silks that were perceived to be so previous that the the that previous so be to perceived were that silks pattered elaborately Crusaders brought them to Europe as prized possessions. possessions. prized as Europe to them brought Crusaders GHIDA

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17 18 is the oldest calligraphy form of Arabic scripts. Developed around the the around Developed scripts. Arabic of form calligraphy oldest the is Kufic end of the 7th century in Kufa, Iraq, it was first used to record the Qur’an. Kufic Kufic Qur’an. the record to used first was it Iraq, Kufa, in century 7th the of end script is known for its rigid angular strokes. While Kufic script has maintained maintained has script Kufic While strokes. angular rigid its for known is script itself as a prominent part of calligraphy throughout the years, it has beautifully beautifully has it years, the throughout calligraphy of part prominent a as itself diversified into many varieties including: floral, interlaced, bordered and and bordered interlaced, floral, including: varieties many into diversified squared Kufic. Kufic. squared What is most interesting about Kufic calligraphy is that it was imitated and and imitated was it that is calligraphy Kufic about interesting most is What evolved into Pseudo-Kufic script during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Renaissance and Ages Middle the during script Pseudo-Kufic into evolved Europe. Pseudo-Kufic is especially common in Renaissance depictions of of depictions Renaissance in common especially is Pseudo-Kufic Europe. people from the Holy Land. Land. Holy the from people With minimal intervention to the authentic Kufic calligraphy, Silsal’s designers calligraphy,Silsal’s Kufic designers authentic the to intervention minimal With delicately introduce the script on pastel colored surfaces and contemporary contemporary and surfaces colored pastel on script the introduce delicately designed objects. Throughout this collection, Silsal’s designers have chosen to to chosen have Silsal’s designers collection, this Throughout objects. designed use words related to hope, peace and love. love. and peace hope, to related words use KUFIC

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27 28 ‘Tarateesh’, Arabic for splish-splash, is all about deconstructing and and deconstructing about all is splish-splash, for ‘Tarateesh’,Arabic reconstructing Arabic words in playful ways. The only way to form words in in words form to way only The ways. playful in words Arabic reconstructing the Arabic language is by connecting the letters together. Writing the letter letter the together. Writing letters the connecting by is language Arabic the individually does not make sense. sense. make not does individually With a playful approach to , Silsal’s designers chose to to chose calligraphy,Silsal’s Arabic designers to approach playful a With break down the words back to basics. The letters on the collection’s pieces collection’s pieces the on letters The basics. to back words the down break haphazardly fly around the surfaces and visually connect to form words related related words form to connect visually and surfaces the around fly haphazardly to health. Many of the products are adorned with the phrase ‘sahtain wa hana’ hana’ wa ‘sahtain phrase the with adorned are products the of Many health. to translating to mean ‘Bon Appétit’. Appétit’. ‘Bon mean to translating The energy in this collection is very apparent, not only from the movement movement the from only not apparent, very is collection this in energy The created by the scattered letters, but rather through the injection of three or or three of injection the through rather but letters, scattered the by created four colors on one surface. surface. one on colors four TARATEESH

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39 40 ‘Ashkaal’, meaning ‘shapes’, is a festive collection that is inspired from from inspired is that collection festive a is ‘shapes’, meaning ‘Ashkaal’, the architectural and geometric patterns that were used in the arts of of arts the in used were that patterns geometric and architectural the the Islamic world. world. Islamic the Spanning, 1300 years of history the arts of the Islamic world have reached reached have world Islamic the of arts the history of years 1300 Spanning, incredible geographic diversity through time. Islamic empires and dynasties dynasties and empires Islamic time. through diversity geographic incredible controlled territory from Spain to western China at various points in history. in points various at China western to Spain from territory controlled Travelling through countries where was once and in some cases remains remains cases some in and once was Islam where countries Travellingthrough a major cultural force, the decorative geometric patterns used on buildings buildings on used patterns geometric decorative the force, cultural major a are very noticeable, from Al Hambra, a palace located in Granada, Spain, to to Spain, Granada, in located palace a Hambra, Al from noticeable, very are the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, Turkey, a Greek Orthodox church that was later later was that church Istanbul, Orthodox in Turkey, Greek a Sofia Hagia the converted into an Ottoman and today serves as a museum. museum. a as serves today and mosque Ottoman an into converted The geometric patterns on Silsal’s Ashkaal collection are rendered in a warm warm a in rendered are collection Silsal’s on Ashkaal patterns geometric The and festive way, combining an eclectic choice of colors with multiple variations variations multiple with colors of choice eclectic an way, festive combining and of the same pattern, bringing together an East-meets-West feel. feel. East-meets-West an together bringing pattern, same the of ASHKAAL

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53 54 With roots in North Africa and Andalusia, Silsal’s delicate and classical classical and Silsal’s delicate Andalusia, and Africa North in roots With ‘Maghrebi’ collection is inspired by the famous 10th century Maghrebi script. script. Maghrebi century 10th famous the by inspired is collection ‘Maghrebi’ Maghrebi script is very distinctive in that it has descending strokes that follow follow that strokes descending has it that in distinctive very is script Maghrebi the shape of the surface it adorns, it was often written in brown ink, and its its and ink, brown in written often was it adorns, it surface the of shape the strokes tend to be uniform in thickness. in uniform be to tend strokes A curvaceous and fluid script, Maghrebi was commonly used for writing all all writing for used commonly was Maghrebi script, fluid and curvaceous A kinds of . In keeping with the Maghrebi tradition, Silsal’s designers Silsal’s designers tradition, Maghrebi the with keeping In manuscripts. of kinds enjoy sweeping their brushes across their sketch books extending strokes and and strokes extending books sketch their across brushes their sweeping enjoy exaggerated curves for every word. Silsal’s designers chose to stick to a limited limited a to stick to chose Silsal’s word. designers every for curves exaggerated color palette for this collection so as to reflect its original characteristics. characteristics. original its reflect to as so collection this for palette color MAGHREBI

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