THE MAKERS

The stories behind the pieces — the makers who create them and the thinking that brings them here.

Virginia Affleck of the Tangier Bureau

The Tangier Bureau

Pin Affleck designs hand-woven cotton table linen from her flat in Tangier, made by her team of Moroccan weavers.

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The Vintage List - Base Shaping process for their crystal glassware

The Vintage List

Henry and Camilla reproduce 19th-century English crystal as lead-free, dishwasher-safe glassware — mouth-blown and hand-engraved in classic patterns for modern day life.

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Laetitia Rouget - The Voyage Dubai

Laetitia Rouget

Lisbon-based ceramicist trained at Central Saint Martins. Bold colour, hand-painted illustration, and a wit that arrives quietly.

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The Lacquer Company - The Voyage Dubai

The Lacquer Company

A London design studio handcrafting Son Mai lacquerware in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The UAE's exclusive stockist.

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Artist Gavin Houghton in his home in Tangier by House & Garden UK. At The Voyage Dubai.

Gavin Houghton

Loose, saturated watercolours of Tangier and the Nile by Gavin Houghton — art director, stylist and painter with a lifelong love of colour.

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Michael Chandler hand-paints blue-and-white ceramics from Chandler House, his Cape Town studio and gallery, exploring the Cape's history as a trade crossroads.

Michael Chandler

Self-taught Cape Town artist Michael Chandler hand-paints blue-and-white ceramics from Chandler House — his studio, gallery and home in one.

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The Exvotos, Seville - The Voyage Dubai

The Exvotos

Two Seville artists, one studio. Daniel and Luciano make hand-painted ceramic head vases and decorative objects rooted in Andalusian craft and religious iconography.

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Cooperativa Artieri Alabastro

Cooperativa Artieri Alabastro

Alabaster carved by hand in Volterra since 1895, by a cooperative of Tuscan craftspeople whose name was coined by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio.

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Jess Wheeler hand-crafts brass and bronze sconces and candlesticks in North Wales, drawing on the botanical forms of the Snowdonia landscape.

Jess Wheeler

Jess Wheeler hand-casts brass sconces and candlesticks inspired by the North Wales landscape, self-taught after a move to a Snowdonia farm in 2019.

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Villa Bologna Pottery - The Voyage Dubai

Villa Bologna Pottery

Malta's oldest working pottery, founded in 1924. Every piece handmade and hand-painted in the old stables of a Baroque house in Attard.

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Heidi Bishop Ceramics creates gold-lustre porcelain dishes by hand in London. Delicate, jagged-edged pieces, each one individually finished.

Heidi Bishop Ceramics

Heidi Bishop hand-paints delicate porcelain dishes with 18-karat gold lustre from her London studio. Each piece individually fired and finished.

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Jean Roger Paris - The Voyage Dubai

Jean Roger Paris

A Parisian ceramic atelier founded in the 1950s, now in its third generation. Christian Dior and Jackie Kennedy were early customers. The wit and craft are unchanged.

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Summerill & Bishop - The Voyage Dubai

Summerill & Bishop

Founded in Notting Hill in 1994 by two friends who couldn't find table linen worth buying. Thirty years later, the standard hasn't changed.

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Shellegance, Lucie de Moyencourt - The Voyage Dubai

Shellegance

Architect-turned-artist Lucie de Moyencourt makes hand-painted ceramic shells in her Cape Town studio. Each one unique, each one painted by hand.

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Volga Linen, UK - The Voyage Dubai

Volga Linen

Founded in 1995 by Theresa Tollemache after she traced her family's Russian roots. Heirloom-quality pure linen, now a Royal Warrant holder.

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Adil Can Güven — Iznik Ceramics - The Voyage Dubai

Adil Can Güven — Iznik Ceramics

A ceramicist who has spent over fifty years reviving Iznik — one of the Ottoman Empire's greatest craft traditions. Made in Bursa, Turkey.

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Antonio Fasano Ceramics - The Voyage Dubai

Antonio Fasano Ceramics

A ceramicist from one of Puglia's oldest pottery families, working from his own studio in Grottaglie. Hand-built, hand-painted, made one at a time.

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Pina Michoacana, Mexico - The Voyage Dubai

Mexican Pineapples

Glazed clay pineapples hand-shaped using the pastillaje technique in San José de Gracia, Michoacán — a craft passed down through generations.

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Alice Mary Lynch is a Somerset artist and designer, Paris-trained with Galliano and Rykiel. Hand-painted wooden decorations available at The Voyage Dubai.

Alice Mary Lynch

Somerset artist Alice Mary Lynch trained in Paris with Galliano and Rykiel. Her hand-painted wooden decorations are made to be treasured and passed on.

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Peggy & Kate Cards, Kent - The Voyage Dubai

Kate Cronk

Kate Cronk founded her studio Peggy & Kate in 2014. Hand-drawn cards and stationery, full of gardens, dogs and English domestic charm.

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Pascale Nivet Bernetière hand-embroiders jewellery and brooches from her Rennes studio, blending Breton folklore with a rock-and-roll sensibility.

Céleste Mogador

Pascale Nivet Bernetière hand-embroiders jewellery and brooches from her Rennes studio, blending Breton folklore with a rock-and-roll sensibility.

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