Our atelier has worked continuously since 1985. Three decades before we carried this name, our artisans were already at the furnace — gathering molten glass, coaxing form from fire with nothing but breath and a steady hand. Nothing in our method has been automated since. Nothing will be.

THE NAME

Mishkah — مشكاة — is the niche in a wall where a lamp is placed, so that its light gathers and is given back to the room. We chose it because it describes exactly what we make: vessels whose purpose is to hold light.

THE INHERITANCE

Cairo under the Fatimids was one of the great glassmaking capitals of the world. We do not claim an unbroken line to those workshops; no honest house could. What we inherit is something quieter: a city's sensibility — the way light falls through mashrabiya, the restraint of Fatimid geometry, the belief that an everyday object deserves a master's hand.