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About Maison Layali

Maison Layali sells home accessories with Egypt as the source: mouth-blown glass, hand-painted pottery, alabaster and cotton, for the hours when the house grows quiet.

A woman in a white bathrobe, with a towel around her hair, sits in the sun on a lounge bed with cushions

Layali, Arabic for evenings

The hours when the house settles, the table is still full and no one looks at the clock. Those are the hours we make things for.

Our story

Maison Layali began with a feeling, not with a product: that the hours after sunset are the most beautiful of the day. When the light fades and the candles are lit, you truly notice the things you live with every day: the glass you drink from, the bowl on the table, the cotton you sleep under.

For those hours we look for pieces with a story, and that story often begins in Egypt. With glassblowers in old Cairo, who blow new glass from collected glass. With potters in Fayoum, who paint their dishes by hand. With embroiderers and weavers who work the way it has been done there for generations.

Alongside them, we choose a few pieces from European workshops that work in the same spirit: linen from Lithuania and Belgium, cotton from Portugal and scented candles from France and Spain.

We are honest about origin. Every piece shows whether it is handmade in Egypt, made in Egypt or inspired by Egypt, who makes it and which country it comes from. Many pieces are sent by the maker or supplier themselves, directly to you. We remain your point of contact, from your order to a return.

A table set for the evening with amber glasses, tealights and a blue painted vase; a Maison Layali card lies on the tablecloth

The hands behind the house

In Fayoum, potters paint their dishes and jugs, thrown from clay from Aswan. In old Cairo, glassblowers make new glass from collected glass, and in the Malaika embroidery workshop feluccas and palms are stitched onto linen. In Luxor, alabaster is worked by hand, and in the Siwa oasis makers carve candle holders from salt stone.

  • Malaika: pottery from Fayoum, glass from Cairo, alabaster from Luxor, embroidery and Egyptian cotton
  • La Route des Rois: glass from Cairo, date palm weaving and salt stone from Siwa
  • L'AMAR: porcelain, glazed by hand in Egypt
Hand-painted serving dish with blue vines on a green glaze, from Fayoum

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From the laid table to the last light in the bedroom.

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