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As I make my way through the busy streets of Ashrafieh, it might be due to my biased perception but my eyes are drawn to Maktabis everywhere. And all of them in the carpet business. There’s Nivine Maktabi’s Oumnia, with its modernist tribal rugs, Hadi Maktabi’s traditional Oriental carp…
The hotels Jean-Michel Gathy designs for the likes of Aman, One&Only and Cheval Blanc are off the decadence Richter scale. It’s therefore about time we meet the man who pioneered the private plunge pool, ‘naughty bathrooms’ and basking nets. The name Jean-Michel Gathy may not featur…
Married to footballer Sol Campbell but a formidable name in her own right, Fiona Barratt trained at Chelsea College of Arts and Parsons, worked under Kelly Hoppen, then founded her own practice in 2006.
Born in Beirut but based in Paris and as passionate about graphic design as he is about furniture or lighting, Charles Kalpakian’s designs sit at the junction of several different overlapping worlds. A quote from Gibran. A vase called ‘Saida’. A room divider called ‘Hawa’. A light fixtu…
Practicing interior design and architecture out of the same office, professions as separate as they are entwined, Dada & Associates and TheOtherDada operate in a way that is interdependent but independent. audience signals @ambrouille As family businesses go, the Dadas rather break …
He may eschew 3D renderings in favour of models, yet Paul Kaloustian's work is decidedly contemporary. His low-slung, muscular houses, built around open-air gravel courtyards, offer a fresh take on the region's vernacular architecture.
With several homes already built in California's Yucca Valley, Los Angeles architects Monica Oller and Tom Pejic seek to reawaken a love of earthy modernism, uniting clean contemporary sensibilities with the austere brilliance of the Mojave Desert.
Architecture has always been a weapon, our writer contends, flaunting power through built narrative. Islamic architecture, sometimes called the architecture of the veil, turns inward upon lavish, spacious courts, encapsulating its builders' histories and rituals.
We do like to be beside the seaside, but you need not live by the sea to enjoy it. Enter Crystal Lagoons, the visionary company creating vast manmade lagoons everywhere and anywhere, even in Dubai.
Nathalie Khayat’s studio isn’t especially quiet. Just down the road from the post office on Sassine Square in Beirut’s Ashrafieh, it opens onto the city’s soundscape; the dull roar of traffic, squealing tyres, honking horns, the drill of construction, passing conversations, the cries of…
"There's nothing more humbling than getting punched in the face," Bseiso admits. For five years she has trained, competed and taken knocks, returning them with astonishing speed and power between her presenting duties.
It is impossible to be indifferent about Shourouk Rhaiem's sparkling accessories. Bold, bright and kaleidoscopic, they are the ultimate antidepressant. The Parisian of Tunisian origin recounts a rapid ascent embraced by Lady Gaga and Michelle Obama alike.