Prologue

Cultural Soft Power

The Nusantaran Archipelago has long sustained a premodern cosmological order of the seas, while serving as a civilizational crossroads for over a millennium—leaving the history written as much in material language as in archives.

Particularly through the complex living textile ecosystems and artisanal-related crafts act as the carriers of the nation’s distinguishing strengths and collective identities.

In present moment, culture has become a form of global soft power. As speed, AI, and accelerated production redefine creativity, tactile mastery has grown increasingly rare. This positions artisanal practices now as extremely demanding, irreducibly human specialties.

Nusantara holds an inexhaustible reserve of local genius and inspiration, particularly within the creative labor— an emancipatory act to preserve and transmit culture, heritage and creativity together as a living language.

Yet the potential remains insufficiently articulated, requiring care, stewardship, and translation to assume a visible, enduring place within contemporary global relevance.

From the womenswear design origins, Benyamin Yacob has since expanded the focused pursuit with the establishment of Maison Yacob in 2026.

Maison Yacob

Practices

The practice inhabits a wide range of techniques, with our samples drawn in working with Digital 3D Printing and Graphic Design, various threads, sequins, and rhinestones embroideries in ornate patterns, metalworks, flower appliqués to ornamentation.

Alongside with creative directions headed by Benyamin Yacob, the Maison conducts sophistication in classic, futurist and contemporary forms. Elevates renewable crafts and imaginative ways of designing, and material vocabulary.

These methods are in order to create a tasteful balance in harmonious, evocative tones. Offers its finest assembly possible of one-of-a-kind standalone pieces in any kind of design needed.

Production

Bespoke Order

To begin a bespoke order from us, we invite you to complete the Questionnaire Form below with your contact address, scopes and project details.

Upon receipt, our team will engage you in informing for further discussion, thus enabling clients to get involved in developing ideas and prototyping, from selecting color to material curation. Ensuring the final design resonates with the Maison’s ideals in bringing clients singular visions to life.

Questionnaire Form

Open Horizon

Maison Yacob serves as the sanctuary hand of the brand's foundation. An open space to create, transmitting culture and locals potential amongst creative collaborators. As our mission aims to highlight Nusantara Savoir-Faire, in order to reassert our identity as the creative epicenter to meeting global permanence.

Maison Yacob is a Nusantara Artisanal House to invent, design and produce bespoke textiles, embroideries and hand-crafted excellence. With our specialties unites time-honored precision with agile, hybrid techniques across disciplines and material exploration.

The production upholds local multidisciplinary artisans within project-based oriented in any scale of orders, with tirelessly hands-on creative, solution-driven to clients.

Our team

Our strength lies in our individuality. Set up by Esther Bryce, the team strives to bring in the best talent in various fields, from architecture to interior design and sales.