Samir Mazer x Ateliers Zelij
It was in the 90s that Samir Mazer, a Franco-Moroccan visual artist, joined forces with Delphine Laporte, an interior designer, to create Ateliers Zelij in order to reinvent and bring to life a culture through handmade surface coverings such as zellige, cement tile and, more recently, stone mosaics associated with Terrazzo. Read More
Samir Mazer has retained from his sculpture studies a fascination for the poetry of materials. This is how zellige, a thousand-year-old terracotta tile inseparable from the Arab-Andalusian heritage, has become his main vector of expression to create rhythmic patterns and pictorial compositions. In Toulouse, from his research and development studio, Samir explores and experiments with Wall-Materials for Ateliers Zelij.
Daring without a care, breaking codes, inventing a language and creating a singular aesthetic. Ateliers Zelij is more than a surface designer. There is an understanding of materials, a vision of their application and above all the ambition to preserve their essence. The quality of the products is essential with a traceability of the raw materials and the respect for ancestral handcrafting techniques including zellige, a product labeled “Zellige de Fes” by the Moroccan Ministry of Handicrafts.