Rasmi vaulting and stained glass window from Mecca Gate, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Bonner Design Consultancy specializes in traditional and innovative ornamental design for contemporary Islamic architecture. Our work is inspired by the great design traditions of the past, yet boldly original and suited to modern aesthetic sensibilities and technical requirements.

Among the projects that Jay Bonner has participated on is the expansion of the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, a variety of elements for the Great Mosque in Mecca, the new Senate House in Islamabad, the Data Darbar Mosque and Shrine in Lahore, and the Ismaili Centre in London. More recently we have completed the ornament for the Fitaihi Hospital in Jeddah, and the ornament for the Kaa’ba Minbar for the Great Mosque in Mecca.

This web site has many examples of Jay Bonner's work with Islamic Geometric Patterns, Muqarnas, Ornamental Polyhedra, and miscellaneous designs using bronze, wood, fabric, pre-cast gypsum, and ceramic tile.

You are invited to read Jay Bonner's recently published paper titled Three Traditions of Self-Similarity in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Islamic Architectural Ornament. This paper was presented to the 2003 ISAMA/Bridges Conference in Granada, Spain, and published the same year in their Conference Proceedings.