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For its first participation in Zurich Design Weeks 2026, Myriem Himmich Gallery is presenting “Where the Hand Remembers,” an exhibition dedicated to Laila Fadaoui’s textile and mixed-media practice. 

Running from September 18-27, the exhibition brings together wall-based works in wool, leather, and paper at House of Interiors, where Fadaoui's Mrirt atelier is also present.

But the exhibition is not simply about bringing Moroccan craft to a new city. At its center is a more intimate question: What happens when a traditional gesture leaves its original object and enters the language of contemporary art?

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Je porte un attachement particulier aux artistes qui préservent les savoir-faire marocains, tout en les réinventant dans un langage contemporain. Laila Fadaoui fait désormais partie de ces artistes.

Née en 1996 à Zurich, Laila est une artiste et designer marocaine, italienne et suisse. Son parcours est porté par sa quête de renouer avec ses origines et de participer à la transmission de son heritage marocain. 

Après des études en finance, elle se tourne vers l’entrepreneuriat et crée, à 23 ans, une première marque née du désir de mettre en lumière les savoir-faire de son pays d’origine, le Maroc. Elle s’intéresse aux territoires, aux matières et aux communautés qui les préservent. Elle porte un intérêt particulier au cuir produit à Fez et se rapproche de Mrirt, ville du Moyen Atlas, dont la tradition du tapis deviendra plus tard le coeur de son travail.

En janvier 2023, elle a 27 ans, elle decide de fonder la marque @mrirt.ma autour d’une conviction qui est de préserver ce metier qui résonne. Pour Laila, la laine, le geste et la connaissance artisanale doivent s’exprimer sans artifice, dans une esthétique dépouillée, simple et intemporelle. Elle lance une ligne de tapis épurée qui trouveront écho auprès des architectes et designers d’intérieur internationaux.

Derrière le tapis, ce sont ces femmes tisseuses marocaines qui marquent son coeur et son esprit. Profondément marquée par la transmission silencieuse de leur geste, elle perçoit le tissage comme un langage féminin, un espace de mémoire, de résilience et de création. Elle souhaite les honorer.

En 2024, son travail bascule progressivement du design vers l’art.

Laila interroge la symbolique de ces femmes. La fleur apparaît alors. D’abord dessinée instinctivement, la fleur accompagne une période de profonde transformation personnelle. Elle y reconnaît une métaphore de son cheminement : éclore, se déployer, perdre parfois ses pétales et puis renaître autrement comme un rappel de sa transformation, de ses épreuves, de sa reconstruction et du retour à soi. Elle devient son motif central, puis aujourd’hui sa signature.
 
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From 17–27 September 2026, House of Interiors presents a multi-layered program as part of Zurich Design Weeks.

Swipe through for the full agenda →

Grubenstrasse 6/8, 8045 Zurich 

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EMERGING

Six young designers and studios taking the leap from education into the professional design world. Guided by the theme OUT OF…, the exhibition explores the moment of stepping forward; from school, studio, or workshop, from experimentation, material research, and first independent projects. 

Works by Andri Cavegn, Patricia Kindler, LitschiDesign, raw objects, studioblauwe, Nicolas Wagner 

Presented by House of Interiors

📅 Lunch & Learn: die nächste Generation | Wednesday, Sep 23, 12:00

Organic Dialogue | Bienvenue Studios × Teodora Sarandi

A collaboration between Bienvenue Studios and Teodora Sarandi: a temporary window installation where print design meets organic composition.

Objects of Desire | Nilufar

Nilufar brings a dialogue between historic design icons and contemporary creativity to HOI. The selection of collector’s pieces is curated personally by Nina Yashar in collaboration with Iria Degen.

Becoming Object | ENGA × Iria Degen Interiors

Botanical sketches become physical objects: the collaboration between ENGA and Iria Degen Interiors connects nature, materiality, and innovative design. The development process — from first sketch to finished product — becomes part of the exhibition itself.

Where The Hand Remembers | Laila Fadaoui × Myriem Himmich Gallery

Laila Fadaoui and curator Myriem Himmich bring Moroccan craftsmanship into dialogue with contemporary art, creating space to reflect on origin, materiality, and the conscious passing-on of cultural heritage.

Büro heute neu denken | Bene

How do we want to work, live, and shape spaces tomorrow? Bene creates a workspace at HOI that reinterprets contemporary work environments through furniture design, flexibility, and sustainable thinking.

📅 „Inside Bene“ (DE) | Thursday, Sep 24, 16:00

Impact LAB | Impact Acoustic

Discover product innovations and exciting developments in biocircular materials. In the Impact LAB, get hands-on w
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Boujaad Rug
Early 20th Century

The Middle Atlas has always spoken in wool….

Beni Ourain. Beni Mguild. Zemmour. Azilal. Boujaad. Mrirt and many more.

The specific rug in this image is a Boujaad, woven in the town of Boujaad, 119km from Mrirt, by a local women. (Beni Amir, Ourdirha and Beni Zemmour are the tribes). I share it here because it is one of the most honest examples of what lives at the deepest heart of every Moroccan rug.

This particular piece is a poppy meadow in the Middle Atlas in spring. Not interpreted. Not designed. Remembered. A woman materialised what she saw, what she felt, what lived inside her, at a time when making and meaning were not yet separated. 

I missed this year’s breathtaking Moroccan spring, unfortunately. After a winter of unrelenting rain, Morocco bloomed like it had not in such a long time, but looking at this rug, I am not sure I’ve missed it at all.

Read more ->

Morocco - Spring 2026

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The Way II - 1969
Barnett Newman

Mrirt Rug - 1965

The question people return to, again and again, is why these rugs carry so many different names and why they resist easy identification. The answer is both simple and worth sitting with: there are no rigid rules. There never were. What gives a rug its face is a layering, first the woman who knotted it, then the tribe or city she belongs to, then the region and the mountains that shaped her. Each layer adds depth, and combined they produce something unrepeatable, something that cannot be reverse-engineered from pattern alone.

The differences in colour and motif, a Beni Ourain’s ivory and black geometry, the deep reds of Mrirt, the blues of the Mguild, are tendencies, not taxonomies. They emerge from shared histories, from landscape, from what is simply in the air of a place. And they shift across generations. They breathe, since each one has another story to tell.

Mrirt sits at the heart of the Middle Atlas, where these traditions converge and quietly inform one another. What unites all Middle Atlas rugs is not a specific pattern or colour, but the wool itself, the regional sheep, the techniques used, the density of knots creating the known alpine plushness that speaks directly to t
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