Journal
How to care for hand-painted ceramics, alabaste...
A short, practical guide to looking after the pieces you have bought — so that they go on improving for thirty or forty years rather than becoming damaged in the...
How to care for hand-painted ceramics, alabaste...
A short, practical guide to looking after the pieces you have bought — so that they go on improving for thirty or forty years rather than becoming damaged in the...
Setting a Mediterranean table with hand-painted...
How to lay a table in the slow, generous tradition of the eastern Mediterranean — with hand-painted ceramics, mismatched glassware, linen and bread. A guide for everyday lunches and longer...
Setting a Mediterranean table with hand-painted...
How to lay a table in the slow, generous tradition of the eastern Mediterranean — with hand-painted ceramics, mismatched glassware, linen and bread. A guide for everyday lunches and longer...
How an alabaster lamp is hand-carved
It takes a week, sometimes two, to turn a block of Egyptian alabaster into a finished lamp. A visit to the carvers of Luxor, where the stone has been worked...
How an alabaster lamp is hand-carved
It takes a week, sometimes two, to turn a block of Egyptian alabaster into a finished lamp. A visit to the carvers of Luxor, where the stone has been worked...
The breath that becomes a glass: a day with an ...
In a small workshop on the edge of Cairo, glassblowers have been turning recycled bottles into hand-blown tumblers since the Mamluk period. A morning at the furnace.
The breath that becomes a glass: a day with an ...
In a small workshop on the edge of Cairo, glassblowers have been turning recycled bottles into hand-blown tumblers since the Mamluk period. A morning at the furnace.
Inside a Fayoum pottery workshop
An hour and a half south-west of Cairo, in the village of Tunis, the wheels have been turning for the better part of a century. A morning with the potters...
Inside a Fayoum pottery workshop
An hour and a half south-west of Cairo, in the village of Tunis, the wheels have been turning for the better part of a century. A morning with the potters...