Elham & Issa: Jewellery with a taste of eastern delight

Husband and wife team Issa Sabeh and Elham Kalaji share their new collection with Portfolio, as the Jordanian firm comes to the UK

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Elham & Issa Jewellery has a story as dazzling as the gems they work with. It began more than a decade ago, when Jordanian jeweller Issa Sabeh interviewed designer Elham Kalaji for a position in the company where he worked. A year later and they were married – and had set up their jewellery company.

"On my wedding day, Issa surprised me with a necklace he had designed and I felt so special that he had made a piece for me," Elham tells The Week Portfolio. "After our honeymoon, I said to him, 'We should do the same for other brides.' And so we began our bespoke service: a bride and the groom would come in and he would tell me the budget while she would tell me everything about her dress, her colours and I would design something for her, something she could also wear later, after the wedding."

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