Notes from the house
The Journal
Stories from the Beirut bench, the Baghdad and Erbil boutiques, and the families we've dressed for their biggest days.
3 stories
Forty hours at the Beirut bench
How a single solitaire travels from a loose stone in a paper to the ring a bride wears home from Al-Mansour.
The shabka, kept and remade
Three families on the gold they inherited — and what they asked us to make from it.
Choosing a band to sit beside it
Flush, curved, or apart — a fitting-room guide to the wedding band.