KL-based creative brand Loka Made is recognisable through its pop-up architecture books. Photos: The Star/Low Lay Phon
The gift shop across the corridor from KL’s Ilham Gallery features a carefully curated selection of products, ranging from art prints, handicrafts, woven bags, seeds, card games, jewellery, postcards and art books.
Most of the items here are proudly made in Malaysia – but wait, before you start baulking at this all too familiar phrase, Ilham Gallery gift shop manager Wong Ee Ling will be quick to assure you that “buatan Malaysia” here goes beyond the familiar tourist images and tacky souvenirs we have come to associate it with.
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