Conversation Piece
, creatives explore their roots through one meaningful object.
It wasnât until Mallory Solomonâs brother put her in a cab, along with six suitcases, that it all started to sink in: She was going to Moroccoâand this time she was
staying there. For the past two years, the Los Angeles native, who founded direct-to-consumer rug company Salam Hello in 2019, had been splitting her time evenly between Brooklyn, where she kept a spacious apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Marrakech, where, five hours southeast of the city, deep in the Atlas Mountains, her naturally dyed, handwoven rugs are produced. In September, after seven months of quarantine, Solomon made the decision to move to Morocco full-time.Â