- YEMEN
WEBDATE
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- YEMEN
ART
- Abdulwahab Muhammad
Al-Sayrafi
- c/o Tim
MacIntosh-Smith
- POB
10731
- Sanaa,
Yemen
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- Mr. Al-Sayrafi was born
in 1968 in the Dawud Quarter, heart of the old city of Sanaa. For
many generations his family has been the principal alabaster
cutters in Yemen, making windows for dwellings in the capital and
as far away as Rida‘. By the 1960s, however, imports of cheap
coloured glass had killed off the alabaster industry, which is
extremely labour intensive at both mining and cutting stages.
Abdulwahab has now revived the craft of his ancestors, working on
restoration projects and promoting the reintroduction of alabaster
in new building. At the same time, his lighting range which has
been called "sculpture in light" -- reinterprets an ancient and
preculiarly Yemeni tradition for a wider, contemporay world.
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