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Award-winning Belgian-Palestinian designer and silversmith Nedda El-Asmar exhibits at the Mosaic Rooms

LONDON.- The Mosaic Rooms presents an exhibition by the award-winning Belgian-Palestinian designer and silversmith Nedda El-Asmar to coincide with the London Design Festival and 100% Design this September. The exhibition will include over 100 high-end domestic objects, in collaboration with the Design Museum of Ghent. A new design, ‘Mabkhara’ – a Middle Eastern incense burner for Zari – will be shown for the first time at this exhibition. Counting among her clients some of the world’s greatest luxury design houses, including Hermès and Puiforcat, El-Asmar’s projects range from the functional and mass-produced to the truly original. Her ‘HTS’ (Hermès Tout Simple) cutlery range received the Etoile de l’Observeur du design 06 award in France, and the Henry van de Velde Public Prize 2006 in Belgium. ‘Central Park’, a sterling silver coffee and tea set with amaranth handl