The store's signature product is its Ottoman engraving-inspired fabrics. For the flagship store, I wanted the window to represent a three-dimensional Haremlique world made of the same-style engravings.

To create a three-dimensional world seemingly made of two-dimensional engravings, I had to draw every element of the house, from every visible angle and then blow each drawing up to life-size. Any parts of the set that would be articulated needed to be drawn in separate pieces.

I needed to showcase the store's main products list in my Haremlique world, so I needed to include representations of coffee and tea service, homeware, the bedroom and bathroom, along with day-to-day household items.

As this visual shows, space in the window was very tight so I needed to design the sets using a lot of trompe l'oeil to create a sense of depth and three dimensionality.

Building each set took hours of work, and I had to be present the whole time to correct or fill in any missing parts by hand.

All the characters including the dog were mechanised, so the baby played peek-a-boo in and out of his cot, the ladies drank coffee, the servant bowed, the lady in the bath kicked her leg and winked, and the dog played with the servant's washing.

The bathroom set, complete with a winking lady kicking bubbles in the air, revolved slowly; on the other side was a large opulently dressed bed. The mechanical dog wagged its tail and pulled at the shawl the servant was trying to fold.

The mechanical ladies' slowly raise their coffee cups up and down in front of a window overlooking an Ottoman water fountain engraving.

In the left-side window, the servant bows from the doorway surrounded by his shelves of Turkish coffee, as the Ottoman ladies in the right-hand window enjoy their afternoon coffee.