Join ISHKAR and Margit Wittig for a week-long pop-up hosted at The Hole & Corner Shop in Bruton. Shop a selection of bespoke lighting and furniture from Margit Wittig, as well as carpets and craft from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and more from ISHKAR.

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Opening Times

Monday-Sunday: 10am-5pm

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About ISHKAR:

Real and imagined barriers have isolated countries like Afghanistan, Yemen, Mali and Iraq from international trade and tourism. The result is that pathways to some of the world’s most extraordinary places, people and cultures have narrowed, or in some cases, disappeared altogether.

We have come together with partners from across the world to restore these pathways once again through a unique blend of travel, craftsmanship and story-telling. By doing so we hope to change one-sided narratives, while creating economic opportunities where they are desperately needed.

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About Margit Wittig:

Margit Wittig is a sculptor and painter who designs and makes contemporary bespoke lighting and furniture. She launched in 2016, with commissions for handcrafted lamps.

Margit studied sculpture and stone carving at the Sculpture Academy as well as metal work at Central Saint Martins. A former physiotherapist, her observations of the human form inspire her figurative bronze and resin sculpture with a nod to Brancusi and Giacometti. All these influences inform her designs which have been described by Kit Kemp as ‘curious, intriguing, classical, yet lyrical’.