Farah Al Qasimi- Patterns Desk Accessory Wright offers a new history

Wright offers a new history of Middle Eastern oil and twentieth-century capitalism—a history that illuminates how labor management and national security concerns have shaped state governance and economic policy priorities

Published December 01

Approximate play time: 25 minutes

He started life at the Bauhaus as a glass-maker and went on to create fonts

Farah Al Qasimi- Patterns Desk Accessory Wright offers a new historyOne of my earliest memories is of a Persian rug at my childhood home in Abu Dhabi I loved looking at it for hours, projecting myself into its maze of vines, trees and peacock feathers. I wanted so badly to teleport to this world that I believed was real and animated inside the carpet. Patterns are repetitions of form and theme, but beyond that, they are universes to fall into geographic planes with rules of their own. Patterns, even when clashing, say