WHO WE ARE
It all started with a gift
Siluet was born in London in 2018 as a solution to a gift to the man who has everything.
Over the years we've grown and eventually moved to Dubai.
What never changed was our love for cities' skylines and sharing memories memories.
JUST CREATE IT
How it all started
Siluet didn't start intentionally. Mariana Jungmann used to run a Womenswear brand in London, specialised in laser-cutting.
Her husband Tony had recently been transferred to Dubai and she needed to find him a birthday gift.
She was set on the idea of some type of skyline related art-work.
The very picky designer couldn't find anything she liked, so she created it.
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LONDON, 2018
The gift that did not exist.
Mariana was living in London. Tony was from Dubai. She went looking for one piece of art that held both cities at once, one skyline running into the other, and nobody made it.
So she drew it herself. She had spent years as a fashion designer in the UK, running a label under her own name, which turns out to be a useful background for someone about to spend two months on a present. She sketched from the living room window. Cut a version on a laser cutter. Found what was wrong with it. Cut it again.
By the time it was finished it was not really a gift any more. Friends saw it and asked for their own city. That was the entire business plan, and we have never written a better one.
HOW A CITY GETS MADE
Nobody here has ever traced a photograph.
Every building in every skyline is researched and drawn by hand, by our own team, one at a time. Never traced. Never generated. It is slow, and it is the reason a Siluet skyline looks like the city rather than a shape of it.
ONE
We look it up.
Before a single line is drawn, someone on the team goes building by building. Heights, setbacks, the shape of a roof, which spire actually sits behind which tower when you stand where people stand. It is slightly obsessive. It is also the whole job.
TWO
We draw it. Every building.
Every line comes from our in house design team, by hand, one building at a time. If a window line is wrong, a person drew it wrong, and a person redraws it. There is no shortcut hiding in this step, which is exactly why we keep it.
THREE
We cut it, in our own studio.
The drawing goes to our lasers in Dubai and comes back as one piece of recycled acrylic, six millimetres thick, in Matte Black, Gold or Silver. Then it is boxed in packaging made a few kilometres away, because something that took weeks to draw should not arrive in a padded envelope.
WHAT WE ARE MADE OF
Beautiful things should not cost the planet.
Every piece starts as recycled acrylic, from Perspex, GreenCast and Douchamp. Not single use plastic. Virgin sheet only where the job genuinely needs it.
Our packaging is made locally here in Dubai. It looks better, it breaks far less, and it travels a shorter distance to reach you. We hold low stock on purpose, so we cut what someone actually wants rather than what we guessed at. Offcuts go back to partners working on closed loop recycling, which means the edges of your skyline end up inside somebody else's.
LONDON
Two cities and a borrowed evening.
Siluet launches with exactly two designs. London and Dubai, the pair that started it. Everything is cut in one room and packed on the kitchen table.
A BIGGER ROOM
We moved in. The country shut the next day.
The timing was not our finest work. We spent the quiet drawing cities nobody had asked for yet, which is how a two city brand became a forty city one.
DUBAI
We followed the second skyline.
In late 2022 we packed the studio and moved to Dubai, the city that was one half of the very first piece we ever made. Siluet has been cut here ever since.
THE NEW STUDIO
New room. Same lasers.
A white room on the other side of the city, machines back on, skylines coming off the bed again. Over seventy cities now, in three finishes, plus the lit ones and the racetracks.
THE PEOPLE
A family business, in the literal sense.
Siluet is owned and run by Mariana Jungmann and Tony Evans, who are married. It means the design reviews happen at the kitchen table and occasionally go on longer than they need to.
The team around them is small, female led and from almost as many places as the cities on the wall. Between them they have drawn the rooftops of more than seventy of them. Ask any of them about their own city and you will be there some time.
Inspired by a Londoner, imagined by a Brazilian, crafted in Dubai, and inspired by everywhere. Cities are not places on a map. They are the chapters that made you.