Abdulrahman Al Muftah

Abdulrahman Al Muftah is a Qatari multidisciplinary designer whose practice reimagines Qatari craft traditions through contemporary design, creating functional art from locally sourced and found materials. Born and raised in the fishing village of Al Wakrah, he studied interior design at Parsons School of Design in New York and arts and design entrepreneurship at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar.

His work explores the invisible patterns connecting materials to their cultural functions and the histories embedded in everyday objects, using hand-building with clay, limestone and palm fibre to set organic imperfection against contemporary precision. He founded Allum and Al Wakrah Records, producing books, cosmetics, records, furniture and jewellery, and his hand-carved Tornado Shelves were shown at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha.