ALEXANDRIA
On a picturesque strip of the Mediterranean overlooking the coastlines of Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, and Spain, sits Alexandria, buzzing with force of thousands of years of stories. Founded in c. 331 BC by Alexander the Great, Ptolemaic Egypt and Roman and Byzantine Egypt for almost 1,000 years Alexandria was the intellectual and cultural center of the ancient Mediterranean world for much of the Hellenistic age and late antiquity. It was at one time the largest city in the ancient world before being eventually overtaken by Rome. From the late 18th century, Alexandria became a major center of the international shipping industry and one of the most important trading centers in the world, both because it profited from the easy overland connections to Africa and because it linked Europe to the fertile Nile Valley, budding with cotton.
The early Ptolemies kept it in order and fostered the development of its museum into the leading Hellenistic center of learning, The Library of Alexandria. Fought over for millennia, Ottoman Persians, Byzantines, Romans, Greeks, Muqawqis, France and England have all laid claim its’ twin harbors. Alexandria is a vibrant city that now houses our finest wood furniture workshop. With exotic materials from the surrounding African continent and the ease of importation of staple hardwoods like French Oak and Olive Wood a short passage across the Mediterranean Sea, and most of all with the ingenuity and precision of our Egyptian team, it is quickly becoming the epicenter of our developing line.
“The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.”
