Moulay Hafid Sdikiene

RIFT

The RIFT chair by Moulay Hafid Sdikiene is part of Halocline (2026), a collection examining how distinct materials meet, resist, and remain separate within a single structure. The work is produced through a combination of digital modelling, sand casting, and hand finishing, with surfaces intentionally retaining grinding, sanding, and welding marks as part of a controlled finish.

The chair is constructed from cast aluminium elements assembled into a compact, load-bearing form. The vertical back structure introduces a rigid rhythm, while the granular surface of the cast metal absorbs light and emphasises material density. Each junction remains visible, reinforcing the logic of assembly rather than concealment.

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    Pre-order only

  • Artist

    Moulay Hafid Sdikiene

  • Produced

    2026

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    Moulay Hafid Sdikiene, working under the name Aulyom Studio, is a Franco-Moroccan artist and designer whose practice brings together ritual, sculpture, and functional art, created with intuition and rigour, indifferent to aesthetic or functional convention.

    His material language is stone and metal: marble, bronze, sandstone, basalt. Each piece begins with a question, a silent impulse, a memory seeking form. The result is less an object than a fragment of space, a meditation on asceticism, resilience, and presence.

    A 2025 finalist for the Institut du Monde Arabe Design Prize, his work traces a singular path: raw yet contemplative, rooted in the history of form, always facing forward. It invites stillness over spectacle, the place where ancient and contemporary converge, where strength meets fragility, and silence takes shape.

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