The Unity Table emphasizes the idealism of unity, peace and equality through design by expressing these through craft and the Sufi traditions. A delicate abstraction of the globe is hand etched on a traditional wood base, the shape derived from a vernacular Sufi music instrument. The two forms are fused together with a solid brass ring, marrying the world with the ideology of peace and unity. Each piece is delicately hand stained highlighting the continents of the world framed in the circular grid of the longitude and latitude and finished in a high-gloss polyurethane top coat.
Sarah Najmi Bilgrami began her career in 2001. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and Architecture, she acquired training as an apprentice. She established Najmi Bilgrami Collaborative (Pvt) Ltd. with her father in 2006, and now serves as its Director. She is also an Associate of the Institute of Architects, Pakistan, a Member of the Pakistan Institute of Interior Designers, and a Life Registered Member of the Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners. With her husband Zayd Bilgrami and brother Ahsan Najmi, she founded, YOCA, or Young Collective Artists, a furniture and homeware design brand.
Established in 2006, YOCA, or Young Collective Artists, is a premium Home Couture brand that surfaced from the synergies between three artists; Zayd Bilgrami, Ahsan Najmi and Sarah Najmi Bilgrami who together, bring with them a combination of inspirational creativity, seasoned industry exposure and academic design credentials from the coveted Rhode Island School of Design. The three artists represent a second generation of experts, whose predecessors have to their credit the 35 year architectural practice, Najmi Bilgrami Collaborative Ltd (NBCL), where all three team members are also partners. With a firm understanding of architectural and interior design and scales, YOCA takes pride in producing unique pieces as their own with no compromise on aesthetics and design, the core elements for any piece of furniture. YOCA is the only home couture boutique in Pakistan that is run by professionally trained architects. For YOCA, excellence, quality and finesse in design are the most essential ingredients.