Xena Kalouti

Xena Kalouti received her bachelor's degree in architecture from Jordan University. After gaining practical experience in architectural design, she became a co-founder of Marsa, a firm which provides design services in architecture, interior design, planning, and landscape architecture. Her artistic interests include exploring the aesthetic and structural potentials of different materials. With a particular focus on reviving local heritage, she has engaged in hands-on crafting, using material fusions to invoke the past. 

Design Vision

The Brand Xena Kalouti focuses on the borderline between art, culture, and architecture, seeking to produce designs that explore the traces of heritage that are absent from contemporary life. Xena's design process begins with introspective interrogation into questions concerning the malleable manifestations of identify in varying times and places. This intellectual inquiry is guided by traditional uses of materials, drawn from the heritage of a certain locality, alongside the transformative capacity that the materials have for creating atmospheres. Most importantly, the products aim to evoke a visual understanding of how they are made, whilst celebrating and regenerating historical traditional crafts. Here art and artisanship unite, as pride and joy emanate not only from the abstracted visual forms, but from the craftsmanship of their makers.

• Participating in London Craft Week (2025)
• Exhibiting in Menaart Design Fair 2024, Paris
• Participating in London Design Festivals 2022 and 2023
• Exhibiting at FORMED with Future Heritage at Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour London 2023
• Exhibiting at Material Matters at the iconic Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf on London's Southbank (2022)