Kalam Journal

Hawaii has always had its appeal. Sunshine, surf, tropical fruits, and hula dancers. Who wouldn’t want to spend time there? What makes the place more appealing is the images from the 1950s of the islands. [...]

Scarabs had symbolic sacred meanings to the Ancient Egyptians. They became extremely popular in the early Middle Kingdom (2000BCE). The symbol moved to the Mediterranean and Middle East in the Bronze Age. What made scarab’s [...]

Who doesn’t love the smell when walking into a lush flower shop? Imagine working with flowers. That would be a dream, the smells, and the colors. When I stumbled on these images of flower sellers [...]

It is that time of the year when summer is just around the corner, and all I can think of is a vacation on a Mediterranean beach. The photographs of Georges Dambier are also adding [...]

Henri Matisse wanted to see divers. One summer day in 1952 he and his assistant went to their favorite pool in Cannes. The result of his sketches from that day transformed his dining room in [...]

Over the new year holidays, I was lucky enough to fly to New Orleans, and I was seduced and mesmerized by the city. You can hear music all the time and it is filled with [...]

If it’s one thing we have in common in the ecru office, it’s the love of old movies. Since Halloween is around the corner, I cannot help but get the urge to binge-watch my favorite [...]

When we started discussing the “Curiosities” collection, Marchesa Luisa Casati immediately popped into my head. The eccentric and extravagant Italian countess was a patron of the arts and muse to many artists in the early [...]

The powers of talismans are still strong today. Centuries-old, different talismans have special symbols to a wide range of cultures. The definition of a talisman is “an object with figures or characters supposed to possess [...]