Twist the world
Valerie BarkowskiCreative Direction, Concept & Design, specialized in traditional handcrafts & work with artisans. Based in Marrakech.
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The first symptom
Some mornings, an idea arrives with completely disproportionate intensity.
For example: changing your life through 10,000 steps. The idea shows up very early. Before coffee. It seems serious, structured, almost scientific.
Move. Do yoga....
Pom, pom, pompom
We were loose threads at the edges of mendils. Small textile details with no particular ambition. In the Rif, they called us chichiattes.
The mendil had always been part of life in the fields. A large striped cloth, hand-woven, tied around...
Bombay, 1984
First steps in India, 1984. Twenty years old, one backpack, a friend, and three months in a land that felt as distant as the moon. The first real journey. Our parents had handed us their sacred list: boil the water, send telexes, avoid stra...
Where is that door?
Sometimes, more often than not, I look at the way we live with a certain disbelief. We get twenty-four hours a day. Eight are meant for sleep. Another eight, at the very least, disappear into work. In theory. Usually more. Sometimes the who...
BALEK !
The medina of Marrakech runs on wheelbarrows. Carrossas.
They come out of nowhere, scraping over cobblestones, threading between people. They carry everything: watermelons, suitcases, timber, eggs. The odd chicken coop. A wonderfully disor...
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I am Valérie Barkowski. Belgian by birth, Marrakech by choice. For nearly 30 years, I’ve worked across concepts, interiors, and slow creation rooted in ancestral craft.
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