Made by hand,
in one room.
Every object in this catalogue leaves one workshop on Derb el Ferran. Brass is pierced by a single maâlem; cedar is carved by another a meter away; the mother-of-pearl is laid in by a third. We do not industrialise.
No production lines. Six maâlems, one workshop, one rhythm — pieces emerge in days, not minutes.
Hand-cut piercework will vary by a millimetre, a strike, a breath. We sign each piece on the back.
Numbered to the workshop's capacity — typically 12 or 24 of any one design per year. Beyond that, we wait.
Pierce, hammer, inlay,
sign.
Five things, and time.
Sheet rolled, cut, pierced, hammered, then antiqued by hand. Every fixture in our lighting line begins here.
Repoussé from the chouara quarter: hand-traced, hand-struck, raised from flat sheet over hours.
Cut from the Middle Atlas; carved, set, joined with traditional moucharabieh joinery. No screws on visible faces.
Sourced from Casablanca shellwork. Each tessera is shaped, inlaid, and sanded flush by hand into the cedar substrate.
Vegetable-tanned in the Fez tanneries, hand-stitched in silk thread following the same star patterns Berber women have drawn for centuries.
A cut of cedar, a strike of brass, a pause to look — the rhythm rarely changes from one decade to the next.
Derb el Ferran,
Marrakech medina.
The atelier is open to clients and designers by appointment. Tea is offered. The maâlems will work; you watch. Write ahead — the workshop runs at the pace of the work, not the calendar.
- Address
- Derb el Ferran, Bab Doukkala
Marrakech 40000, Morocco - By appointment
- atelier@maisonizem.com
- Open
- Monday–Saturday, 09h–17h (closed Fridays 12h–14h)