Lapis Mihrab
محراب لاجوردیArch within arch within arch, until the deepest blue holds a single saffron sun.
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The story
A mihrab is the niche in a mosque wall that marks the direction of prayer, and in Persian architecture it is often framed by a pointed arch nested inside larger arches, each one stepping the eye inward. Lapis lazuli, lajvard, gave Persian tilework and manuscript painting some of its most celebrated blues.
Persiahaus Studio reduced the form to its geometry: a series of pointed arches in lapis and bone, set one inside the other, with a single saffron circle hanging at the centre. It is a picture of attention, of everything narrowing toward one point of light.
