Hidden Gem · 3
- Jebeili Family Soap Aleppo
An Aleppo soap-making family producing traditional Ghar (laurel) soap by methods passed down over generations. Their work belongs to the city's long heritage craft of savon d'Alep. store page → · open in the atlas → - Maison Zanabili (Pearl of Aleppo, est. 1842) Aleppo
The Zanabili family have made soap in Aleppo since 1842, cooking laurel and olive oil into traditional Ghar soap by the ancestral cold method. That long lineage is why the house carries the name Pearl of Aleppo. store page → · open in the atlas → - Sharabati Aleppo Soap Aleppo
One of Aleppo's oldest soap houses, the Sharabati family continue to make traditional laurel-oil soap. They distribute it internationally through their own site. store page → · open in the atlas →
The Register · 2
- Alkhayat Fine Art Furniture Old Damascus (family workshop)
The Alkhayat family has hand-set mother-of-pearl and camel bone into walnut furniture in their Damascus workshop since the 1930s, cutting and fitting each shell fragment by hand. Alongside new commissions they deal in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Syrian antique pieces, with a showroom at the Pasadena Antique & Design Center in California. store page → · open in the atlas → - Damascus Box Made in Damascus (ships from Berlin)
Damascus Box commissions Old City artisans, including named craftsmen such as Mohammad Tarek Aldahh, to make trays, boxes and mirrors inlaid with walnut, lemonwood and mother-of-pearl in traditional geometric patterns. Each piece is handmade in Damascus and dispatched with a certificate of authenticity from the company's Berlin base. store page → · open in the atlas →