About Moorish Studio
Ceramics rooted in geometry. Made for everyday life.
The Story
Moorish Studio began in a small workshop in London with a single question: what would happen if the geometric rigour of medieval Islamic art met the tactile warmth of hand-thrown clay?
The answer, it turned out, was something quietly extraordinary. The tessellating stars of the Alhambra, the cobalt-and-white zellige of the Saadian Tombs, the carved plasterwork of the Ben Youssef Madrasa — all of these are expressions of the same underlying logic: that beauty emerges from the interplay of structure and variation, of the eternal and the handmade.
Each piece we make carries that logic forward. The wheel introduces variation that no tool can predict; the geometric incision brings order that no accident can mimic. Together, they produce objects that feel at once ancient and new.
The Maker
Moorish Studio is the work of Tasneem Kabir, a British-Moroccan ceramicist based in London. Tasneem trained at the Central Saint Martins School of Art before spending two years studying traditional zellige techniques in Fez, Morocco.
Her practice sits at the intersection of the functional and the contemplative. She makes things you can use — bowls for the table, vessels for flowers, platters for bread — but she also makes things that ask to be looked at: wall pieces, sculptural forms, objects that hold the geometry of the pattern in three dimensions.
What We Stand For
Handmade, always
Every piece is hand-thrown or hand-built. No casting, no moulds, no production lines. The marks of the maker are part of the work.
Material honesty
We use high-quality UK-sourced stoneware and porcelain, lead-free glazes, and wood-fired kilns. Nothing we make requires a footnote.
Cultural continuity
We engage seriously with the tradition we draw from — its mathematics, its history, its meaning — not as decoration, but as inheritance.
Objects for life
We make things to be used and kept, passed down and accumulated. Not fast, not disposable — designed to last and to improve with age.