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I dreamed my dream and I walked into it. I am passionate about the cooperation among global cultures - bringing the spirit and craft from tribal cottage industry to contemporary life.
Have you ever thought about helping a student in Africa? The people of the Samburu tribe in northern Kenya are nomadic pastoralists and their way of life is thousands of years old.  This is one of the most marginalized and poorest areas in Africa, lacking the most basic of amenities – clean water, roads, transport, electricity, telephones and pre-natal health care. Every year there are hundreds of motivated and committed students there who have, against all odds, succeeded at grade school and are offered places at the top high schools in Kenya. But high school in Kenya is not free and they are never able to go because their parents cannot afford to pay their fees, uniforms or even the bus fare to get there. The kind and generous souls at the Thorn Tree Project have made a commitment to send 30 of these students this year to high school. Would you like to help? They are looking for 30 people who would like to change the destiny of one of these children by sponsoring one of them throughout the four years of high school which costs just  $1,250 each year. Could you be one of them? If so you can email Jane Newman, the founder of the Thorn Tree Project at info@thorntreeproject.org and you can read more on the Thorn Tree Project website:  www.thorntreeproject.org. Thank you so much! The photo above portrays Julius Lenaino with his family just 2 days before he left for Kericho High School. He is doing really well at school, he is in the top quintile and strong in all his subjects. He is the only person is his family who has ever gone to school. You can view his reports and letters to his sponsor at http://thorntreescholarship.com/students/julius-lenaino Thorn Tree Project - Sereolipi Nomadic Education Foundation from The Thorn Tree Project on Vimeo.

Have you ever thought about helping a student in Africa?

The people of the Samburu tribe in northern Kenya are nomadic pastoralists and their way of life is thousands of years old.  This is one of the most marginalized and poorest areas in Africa, lacking the most basic of amenities – clean water, roads, transport, electricity, telephones and pre-natal health care.

Every year there are hundreds of motivated and committed students there who have, against all odds, succeeded at grade school and are offered places at the top high schools in Kenya. But high school in Kenya is not free and they are never able to go because their parents cannot afford to pay their fees, uniforms or even the bus fare to get there.

The kind and generous souls at the Thorn Tree Project have made a commitment to send 30 of these students this year to high school. Would you like to help? They are looking for 30 people who would like to change the destiny of one of these children by sponsoring one of them throughout the four years of high school which costs just  $1,250 each year. Could you be one of them? If so you can email Jane Newman, the founder of the Thorn Tree Project at info@thorntreeproject.org and you can read more on the Thorn Tree Project website:  www.thorntreeproject.org.

Thank you so much!

The photo above portrays Julius Lenaino with his family just 2 days before he left for Kericho High School. He is doing really well at school, he is in the top quintile and strong in all his subjects. He is the only person is his family who has ever gone to school. You can view his reports and letters to his sponsor at

http://thorntreescholarship.com/students/julius-lenaino

Thorn Tree Project - Sereolipi Nomadic Education Foundation from The Thorn Tree Project on Vimeo.

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Al Dhafra Camel Beauty Festival

Camels drift between morning fog, arriving from the desert, Beduin paradise.

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Floating Balance Coffee Table with Branch Leg

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Super-slab & turned mortar-like stools. “Kauri tables designed by Matteo Thun, are actually timeless pieces, made from very old Wood essences from New Zealand, marshland Kauri. Its powerful trunks, knocked down by a series of natural disasters at the end of the last ice age, were preserved for approximately 50.000 years in an oxygen-free environment beneath mud with very special properties, surviving intact right down to the present day and still incredibly beautiful. Riva 1920 is presenting two tables, measuring 8 and 12 m in length, ‘primary objects’ with their own unique, monumental and absolutely natural charm.” http://www.matteothun.com/

Super-slab & turned mortar-like stools.

“Kauri tables designed by Matteo Thun, are actually timeless pieces, made from very old Wood essences from New Zealand, marshland Kauri. Its powerful trunks, knocked down by a series of natural disasters at the end of the last ice age, were preserved for approximately 50.000 years in an oxygen-free environment beneath mud with very special properties, surviving intact right down to the present day and still incredibly beautiful. Riva 1920 is presenting two tables, measuring 8 and 12 m in length, ‘primary objects’ with their own unique, monumental and absolutely natural charm.”

http://www.matteothun.com/


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Amazing work by fellow artist Alex Cayet

(Source: decoratum.com)

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Chic, Comfortable & Classic: My Acacia Pouf on the current issue of Organic Spa

Chic, Comfortable & Classic: My Acacia Pouf on the current issue of Organic Spa

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May/June 2012 Issue VERANDA

                                           

Our Spider’s Nest Coffee Table appears on the “Hard-To-Find” column of Veranda Magazine! Vintage versions are found on page 136, in a Hollywood Hills space designed by Kathleen and Tommy Clements, and Briggs Edward Solomon.

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Also, in memory of Albert Hadley- protégés, colleagues, and clients of his recall and share their wonderful experiences, insights, and funny memories of “a man,” who they say, “left a lasting mark on interior design, but whose greatest role was that of mentor and friend.”  

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Spotted on Cover: Spider’s Nest Sidetable

Our Spider’s Nest Sidetables found themselves in a beautiful Westchester residence space created by interior designer Eve Robinson and architect Rosamund Young. We found them on the cover of April 2012 New York Spaces Magazine!!

Check it out:

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Celebrating the Best of Afghanistan

Tucker Robbins invites you to an evening celebrating the artisans and culture of Afghanistan with Zarif Design, Jali Designs and Boumi. Experience Afghan hospitality, be enchanted by the sounds of The Kin and spellbound by the fashion show, models provided by I.Am.You. Studio.

Thursday, May 10th, 3:00 - 8:30 PM

Fashion Show and Musical Performance by The Kin @ 7:30

NY Design Center 200 Lexington Ave. Suite 504 

New York, NY 10016

Please RSVP: (212) 355-3383

Zolaykha will be available in the showroom for sales Friday, 10-3pm.

These women-led business initiatives represent models of economic sustainability and cultural heritage despite the war. The work is beautiful, inspired and soulful.

Zarif Design creates high quality fashion, reinterpreting traditional Afghan materials and craftsmanship, rendering elegant modern designs that successfully merge Eastern attire with contemporary Western fashion.

Jali Designs works with the finest artisans from Afghanistan to bring elegant pieces of contemporary design to you and your home

Boumi is a pioneer in producing high quality home decorative artifacts in Afghanistan with a philosophy striving to bring changes to society.

                                        

                       

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