Deezen: "Datecrete" furniture featured in showcase of UAE emerging designers at Dubai Design Week

Five designs were included in this year's edition that focused on innovative materials, such as a chunky console table attached to a rectilinear mirror by architect Sara Abu Farha and engineer Khaled Shalka...

FT: Modern alchemists: the furniture makers to watch in 2023

At the cutting edge of research are the makers repurposing natural detritus: architect Sara Abu Farha and engineer Khaled Shalkha turn surplus, UAE-sourced dates into a material called “datecrete” for their minimalist furniture, showcased at last year’s Dubai Design Week...

YUNG: UAE-Based Couple Launch Datecrete

Now, Sara Abou Farha, an architect and town planner, and her husband Khaled Shalka, an engineer, are focusing on the by-product of date stoning, to create the first date seed cement, Datecrete, and have also created the first table made using date seed...

Cyril Zammit: Tanween by Tashkeel unveils its 2022 Collection

Datecrete Console 0.1. by architect/urban planner and chemical engineer Sara Abu Farha & Khaled Shalkha (Sharjah) - a console using the world’s first date seed-based cementitious material with no trace of concrete or resin...