Made for the rooms where people gather
MAJLIS Editions is a New York design house, founded by interior designers Mazen Eshak and Vincent Dale. It begins where every room begins, on the floor, with bespoke rugs and carpeting and a collection of its own.
مجلس
MAJLIS · /majˈlis/ · Arabic, a place of sitting
In a home, the majlis is the room where guests are received, coffee is served and neighbors sit together. Beyond the room, it is the gathering itself: a place for conversation, poetry and learning.
A design house that begins on the floor
MAJLIS began in the rooms Mazen Eshak and Vincent Dale were designing, with rugs sized and colored for the way people actually gather in them.
Every piece is drawn in New York and made by craftspeople chosen for the work, in New Zealand wool, ECONYL® regenerated nylon, mohair, silk, cotton or jute, knotted, tufted, loomed or woven.
From there, the work travels: into homes and hotel lobbies, along the corridors of residential towers, into the salons of yachts and the cabins of private jets.
Alongside the bespoke work sits the MAJLIS collection, and MAJLIS Studio, where anyone can draw a rug of their own.
Stories worth telling
Six threads we would be glad to explore with you, in conversation, in the studio or in your pages.
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A place of sitting
In Arabic, a majlis is the room where guests are received and neighbors sit together; UNESCO lists it as Intangible Cultural Heritage. What does it mean to design a floor for gathering?
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From a dance floor to a design house
Two designers met on a dance floor at a holiday party, spent a year and a half between New York and Minnesota, and built a design house once they were finally in the same city.
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From fishing nets to floors
ECONYL® regenerated nylon is made from recovered fishing nets and other waste. At MAJLIS it becomes carpet for hotel corridors, yacht salons and family rooms.
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Carpet at sea and in the air
Salon rugs for superyachts and cabin carpet for private jets, drawn in New York and made to the plan of each vessel and aircraft.
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Draw your own
MAJLIS Studio invites anyone to design a rug of their own, in 2D or 3D, and watch its price take shape with every choice.
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The collection, in two ideas
Intense holds a single saturated color. Thick holds a quiet center inside a broad border. Seventeen colorways, four families: Water, Air, Earth and Fire.
Partners in life and in design
They met on a dance floor. In December 2022, Mazen, three months into a new role with a design company in New York, was at its holiday party; Vincent, nearly two years with the same company, had been flown in from Minnesota for it. They agreed about the music, and spent the days that followed together until Vincent's flight home.
For a year and a half they worked for the same company in different cities, on separate projects, always with the wish to design together. In May 2024 Vincent moved east, and the wish became work.
MAJLIS began on a lazy Saturday that suddenly filled with ambition. An idea for a magazine became an idea for rugs, and Vincent was in. They built it quietly for seven months, and before the design house was even founded, they carried it to Milan during the Salone del Mobile, where the designers they met answered with clear interest.
Mazen Eshak
Co-Founder and Chief Operations ExecutiveFor more than a decade in Portland, Oregon, Mazen worked in hospitality, where he learned what a well-designed room, especially a restaurant, can do for the people in it. Helping friends with their homes turned that feeling into a calling. He moved to New York in 2022, still guided by Portland's comfort and focus on craft. At MAJLIS he leads business development, collaborations and the search for the craftspeople behind each piece.
Vincent Dale
Co-Founder and Creative DirectorVincent studied experiential design and graduated into the pandemic, as the interviews he had lined up were canceled one by one. He kept looking for anything related to design, applied twice to a design showroom, and started a week after his second call. Interiors became the natural next step. At MAJLIS he leads the design of every piece, and has a gift for telling a hero piece from one that many homes will love.
Mazen and Vincent, on the work and the life around it
Quotes for use in coverage. For a longer conversation, we would love to sit down with you.
We started with rugs and carpeting because we felt they were the most pivotal piece in a room: a beautiful blank canvas that can be designed in countless ways, and the place the rest of the room takes its inspiration from.
The majlis is the formal seating area in a traditional Arab home. We liked the idea of a space that could be flexible and inviting, open to collaboration and to many mediums.
To us, a design house is a place where many mediums are shown in one cohesive vision. We share many opinions on craft and design, and the ones we don’t share keep the process fun, exciting and inventive.
We love pieces that stand out. We also understand that not everyone is going to want a fuchsia rug in their living room.
The trust and love we have in our personal lives carries into the business. When we disagree, we can step back and understand where the other is coming from.
Portland taught me comfort and a focus on craft. I bring those qualities to every project here in New York.
The interviews I had lined up were all canceled. I kept going, applied again, called the showroom, and started a week later. Interiors were the natural next step.
For a big evening we move the sofa and bring the dining table into the living room, but everyone still ends up in the kitchen, on both sides of the bar.
Right now it’s a hand-knotted rug Mazen found in a thrift store for his first New York studio apartment. Our own designs are coming for the living room and the bedroom.
Rooms, materials and the sea
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For the record
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- Name
- MAJLIS Editions (MAJLIS EDITIONS LLC), New York
- What we are
- A New York design house, starting with bespoke rugs and custom carpeting for residences, hotels, yachts, aircraft and the trade, alongside its own collection.
- Founders
- Mazen Eshak, Co-Founder and Chief Operations Executive. Vincent Dale, Co-Founder and Creative Director. Both are interior designers.
- The collection
- Intense, one saturated color in 17 colorways, and Thick, a broad border in a second color. Hand-loomed in New Zealand wool or ECONYL®, 14 mm pile, from $2,160, shipped free in the continental US.
- MAJLIS Studio
- An online studio to design a made-to-order rug in 2D or 3D and see the price while drawing it: $40 per square foot at a 14 mm pile in New Zealand wool. Visit the Studio.
- Materials
- New Zealand wool, ECONYL® regenerated nylon, mohair, silk, cotton and jute.
- Techniques
- Hand-knotted, hand-tufted, hand-loomed, flatweave and machine-woven, matched to each project.
- Specialist work
- MAJLIS Contract for hotels and buildings, MAJLIS Marine for yachts, MAJLIS Aviation for private aircraft, developed to be certifiable to FAR 25.853, and MAJLIS Auto.
- Delivery
- Most pieces arrive in 8 to 10 weeks in the United States; every quote allows 8 to 16.
- Sister studio
- Mazen Designs, a New York interior design studio for residential, hospitality and commercial spaces.
Come and sit with us
Studio visits in New York, samples to hold, conversations with the founders and high-resolution images, whenever you need them.