Delights is a limited edition carpet collection by Sultan Bin Fahad in collaboration with Iwan Maktabi, the first of its kind curated collection of carpets that commissions creatives in the Gulf region. In this series, Bin Fahad commemorates familiar phrases traditionally used during weddings and other celebrations.
The visuals used for this collection are inspired by a traditional tin box of delights with inscriptions of prosperous wishes. These boxes were historically offered to guests at weddings. The hands of the bride and groom’s fathers entwined to seal the promise of everlasting union, framed by rose petals, swirling lines and colored vines stitching the edges of time, both lost and found, into the sweet bouquet of the present day. The Delights collection depicts a scene of unity and adoration, love upheld arm in arm. A gift that is everlasting, and timeless. Connecting past to present, Bin Fahad’s stories evoke multi-layered journeys between the latent relationship of what is remembered and what remains silently contained within the corporeal.