Farah Al Qasimi- Patterns Desk Accessory Published December 01

Published December 01

Every design acts as a small tribute to the words

He started life at the Bauhaus as a glass-maker and went on to create fonts

The book upends popular notions of innate artistic and visionary genius and probes instead the event of discovery that happens through the act of making

or exploring its heritage and traditional aspects and its legends

Farah Al Qasimi- Patterns Desk Accessory Published December 01One of my earliest memories is of a Persian rug at my childhood home in Abu Dhabi I loved looking at it for hours, projecting myself into its maze of vines, trees and peacock feathers. I wanted so badly to teleport to this world that I believed was real and animated inside the carpet. Patterns are repetitions of form and theme, but beyond that, they are universes to fall into geographic planes with rules of their own. Patterns, even when clashing, say