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Not all houses were created equal. In the pretty town of Monsef, on a particularly scenic stretch of Mediterranean coastline a few minutes’ drive north of Byblos, Villa Kali attests to that adage. Completed just last year, and often referred to as the El Khalil Beach House (after the fa…
WHY DID YOU BECOME A DESIGNER? I’ve always been an observer of things around me. It began naturally, exploring and investigating the objects in our home. It was second nature to look at and think about those products and decipher how they represented what people like and need. I’ve alwa…
ETIENNE SALOME WHY DID YOU BECOME A DESIGNER? I was attracted to the chalenge of combining technical restrictions and creative freedom; it’s an interaction that makes every day at work an experience. But there’s also a great responsibility, for just a single idea, a small sketch,…
With more participants than ever, Design Days Dubai, the region's first fair devoted to collectible and limited-edition furniture and design objects, draws ever greater interest, this sixth edition gathering fifty leading galleries from thirty-nine countries.
Millennials, the argument runs, despise labels and refuse to be pigeonholed. Stephanie meets Kuwaiti artist and designer Nanu Al Hamad, whose deliberately shocking, category-defying body of work seems made precisely for such a generation.
Koa Canvas is not like your other residential projects in Dubai. With 43 different floor plans for the 70 apartments, it heralds a new approach to community building, one in which individuality and identity are front and centre. What the 30-somethings of today are looking for in a place…
Filmmaker Alejandro Landes’ glorious contemporary home in Miami, on the shores of Biscayne Bay, is as captivating as a cinematic masterpiece. Casa Bahia unfolds like a cinematic dream. The luxurious home (which at 50 million USD, is one of the most expensive properties on the Miami mark…
Featuring walls that slide in and out of the building, the Modulofts by Fouad Samara Architects offer a novel answer to the age-old problem of limited space, demanding only that residents be a little rough and ready.
Before her sudden death at sixty-five, the Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid, queen of the curve, was crafting a furniture collection for her long-time gallerist and close friend David Gill.
Lebanese painter, sculptor and architect Nadim Karam dissolves the barriers between his trades. Rather than build within the space allotted, he builds around it, seeking, he says, to create a relationship, a story and a feeling of festivity.
Cairo is a city of scale – it’s the first thing you’re confronted with when you see it from the aeroplane. Not only can you see the Pyramids of Giza, the city’s oldest and most famous example of art at scale, but there are also the vast tracts of red, mud-brick buildings, stretching alm…
Lebanese product designer Richard Yasmine's creations blur the line between fantasy and reality. At once functional household objects and carnal statements, his highly charged work seduces through the use of honest materials and sleek, considered aesthetics.