Bokja is a furniture brand founded by two Lebanese designers, Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibri
The brand name ,"Bokja", is the wrap were you put the dowry of the bride.
When the bride gets married, this is the day she is born actually, the women in the family start embroidering her dowry, and when she leaves home to go to her new life she puts all those hand-embroidered things made with love in that Bokja. They coul d put in bed sheets, linens, or anything prepared for you."
"Bokja cloth is a memory cell of the previous life "
. It accompanies every aspect of her life from child bearing to marriage to even death. All the things that would accompany her will be in that Bokja.
(From the interview of http://hongisto.com/bokja-interview/)
(Photo taken by auther)
There were a few furniture displayed there but you can see entire collection at the link below!
My opinion
Lebanon is not familiar country for me. But This brand shows that it is a interesting country which has born such a amusing designers! When I saw their furniture for the first time, my impression was just"How colorful and vivid they are." But after my research of this brand and " Bokja cloth", I realized the depth of the meaning of these furnitures. These clothes were not just mere clothes. It was a special and unique clothes which were made by mother longing her daughter's happiness.
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