The plates
Every celebration begins as a plate — the artwork your names will stand in. Three registers, each a real way of making a thing in Cairo, and the same names set into any of them.
The register
Al-Diwan
Fine engraving and gold on aged paper — for the katb el-ketab and the formal announcement.
One place
The register
Al-Bustan
A painted garden in watercolour, with real light and shadow.
One place
The register
Khayamiya
Flat colour and bold shapes, from the tentmakers of Cairo.
10 places · Two grounds
The register
The Atelier
A composed panel of real elements on a saturated canvas ground — birds and blooms like photographs.
One place
Every plate above is the real artwork at full size, not a picture of one. What you choose is what arrives.