QAF

The pattern

A familiar geometry, quietly worked into the cabin.

Two overlaid squares forming an eight-pointed star, tiled into a lattice, drawn in three steps
Two overlaid squares forming an eight-pointed star, tiled into a lattice, drawn in three steps pattern-construction.webp
Two squares, a star, a lattice.

What it is

An eight-pointed star lattice — the khatam of Islamic geometry — drawn from two overlaid squares and tiled without a seam. It draws on a long tradition of geometric ornament in regional architecture. The QAF treatment is decorative and carries no sacred text.

Where it lives

Perforated into the seat centres at 1.2 mm, where it lets air through. Embossed into the door cards, where the hand finds it before the eye. Cut into the brass speaker grilles. Woven into the floor mats. Cast into the sill plate's edge. And, on the Emerald, laser-cut into the mashrabiya sunshade of the rear glass.

Six applications

Bone leather with geometric perforations and fine stitching
The perforated seat centre pattern-seat.webp

The seat

Perforated at 1.2 mm, where it lets air through.

The embossed door card
The embossed door card pattern-doorcard.webp

The door card

Embossed, where the hand finds it first.

The brass speaker grille cut in the lattice
The brass speaker grille cut in the lattice pattern-grille.webp

The grille

Cut in brass, over the speaker.

The corner of a woven floor mat carrying the lattice
The corner of a woven floor mat carrying the lattice pattern-mat.webp

The mat

Woven, underfoot.

The cast edge of the brass sill plate
The cast edge of the brass sill plate pattern-sill-edge.webp

The sill

Cast into the plate's edge.

The Emerald's rear glass with a laser-cut lattice sunshade throwing patterned light on the seat
The Emerald's rear glass with a laser-cut lattice sunshade throwing patterned light on the seat pattern-sunshade.webp

The sunshade

Laser-cut into the Emerald's rear glass.

What it never does

Its proposed home is within the cabin, away from exterior marks and written text. It is a pattern, drawn with care, in the places a guest touches.

The monogram

The letter qāf in square Kufic — the geometric script of the region's brickwork — as a 12 × 12 grid, used on the headrest of a commission when the owner has no crest of their own.

The letter qāf in square Kufic on a 12 by 12 grid, dark grey on bone
The letter qāf in square Kufic on a 12 by 12 grid, dark grey on bone pattern-monogram.webp

One geometry. Many ways to feel it.

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