The meaning of MAJLIS

Welcome to the MAJLIS.

Mazen Eshak and Vincent Dale chose MAJLIS for a design house built around conversation: the kind that begins with a room, a material, a memory, or a client’s way of living.

Mazen Eshak and Vincent Dale standing together at a warmly lit bar.
Mazen Eshak & Vincent DaleMAJLIS Editions · New York

Why we chose MAJLIS.

“MAJLIS” refers to a place of sitting: a setting for welcome, exchange, hospitality, and shared presence.

For Mazen and Vincent, the name felt like both an invitation and a working method. Every rug begins with a room and the people who will gather there, then moves through color, scale, material, and craft until the piece feels personal to its setting.

Conversation firstEvery commission starts with listening: to the client, the interior, the palette, the scale, and the feeling the project needs to hold.
Made with intentionMaterials, colors, pile, shape, and edges are chosen carefully, then reviewed directly by the designers before production.
A creative studioMAJLIS begins with rugs and carpeting, while leaving room for collaborations, editions, and ideas that can grow beyond any single category.

MAJLIS مجلس

/majˈlis/ · “maj-lees” · Arabic, “sitting place”

At its simplest, a MAJLIS is a place to sit together: a room, a circle, or a gesture of receiving someone with coffee, conversation, and care.

A cultural & social spaceIn the home, the MAJLIS is where guests are received, coffee is served, and neighbors gather to trade news, mark weddings, and simply sit together. UNESCO recognizes it as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
A communal gatheringBeyond the room, a MAJLIS is the coming-together itself: elders, family, and friends in one circle, giving time and attention to one another.
A place for the artsMAJLIS has long hosted poetry, recitation, reflection, and learning, the room becoming a stage for language, memory, and shared attention.

In its most familiar form, a MAJLIS is open and generous: carpets underfoot, low seating or cushions around the room, and tea or coffee prepared as part of the welcome.

UNESCO · Intangible Cultural Heritage
“A room becomes meaningful when it gives people a place to gather.”

Mazen Eshak & Vincent Dale

Waste becomes yarn.
Yarn becomes beauty.

A quieter look at the material beneath the MAJLIS collections.