Interiors

Features, Interiors

Roar applies “Evidence Based Design” process for Edelman’s Office

Dubai, UAE

Roar has recently completed a 1,000 square-meter Edelman’s Offices in Dubai, UAE. “They loved the ‘Cultural Villages’ concept,,” says Pallavi Dean, founder and creative director of Roar, “The idea of creating separate cities-within-a-city – adding layers of color, texture and furniture to give each village more personality,” The ‘Civic Square’ – the main reception zone Read More

Interiors, Products

‘Up, Close and Personal’ by Nada Debs at Milan Design Week 2018

Milan, Italy

One of Lebanon’s most highly regarded designers; Nada Debs makes her debut during Milan Design Week 2018 at Rossana Orlandi Gallery. For her first solo show in Milan, Nada presents four new collections under the title of ‘Up, Close & Personal’ – a thoughtfully-chosen title which summarizes Studio Nada Debs’ objective: to create both collections Read More

Architecture, Interiors

Amir Shakib Arslan Mosque

Moukhtara, Lebanon

L.E.FT Architects | Makram el Kadi & Ziad Jamaleddine 2016 the orientation of the axis of every mosque on Moslem soil toward the black stone of Kaaba is an awe-inspiring symbol of the unity of faith. Le Corbusier, ‘Journey to the East’, p.104 © Iwan Baan This small mosque of 100m2 included a renovation of an Read More

Interiors, Products

THE JANE, Restaurant

Antwerp, Belgium

Piet Boon architects in collaboration with .PSLAB 2014 Housed in a red brick structure that used to be a chapel for a military hospital in the Groen Kwartier in Antwerp, ‘The Jane’ is the brainchild of Michelin Star Chef Sergio Herman and Nick Bril conceived with the collaboration of Piet Boon architects. With Piet Boon’s Read More

Features, Interiors

Interview// Nada Debs, Makings of the Hand

Dubai, UAE

Makings of the Hand Lebanese Designer Nada Debs on Contemporary Design, Culture, Aesthetics and Craftsmanship in the Middle East Interviewed by Ruba Asi “He whose hand does not work, does not work his mind”. Anonymous Meticulously handcrafted to a perfection that nearly inspires a tantalizing tactility, her pieces are an incarnation of a forsaken Levantine Read More