With Calypso House, SOMA Architects’ Michel Abboud has created the ultimate seafront home. The glass structure pushes boundaries while providing for an idyllic family getaway. Few homes in Lebanon are as distinctive as Calypso House.…
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It took a few confused U-turns before we finally pinpointed the small road leading to Beit Al Batroun, a quaint property in the hills of northern Lebanon. Barely visible from the main thoroughfare, it turns…
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Lebanon’s Gabriel & Guillaume gallery heads to New York City’s most influential design fair to showcase contemporary designers alongside its rare collectible furniture. Gabriel & Guillaume is headed to Manhattan. The travelling collectible design gallery,…
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Looking to escape electronic screens, urban riff-raff and maybe even (GASP!) Wi-Fi? Then this little bed & breakfast nestled in trees overlooking the Mediterranean Sea may be just the place. It took a few confused…
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This Exhibition Center by Oscar Niemeyer in Northern Lebanon is one of the five largest exhibition centers in the world utopian Oscar Niemeyer project in northern Lebanon that had been abandoned and left to the vestiges of war…
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Photographer Jeremy Chivers captures behind-the-scenes images for his new book, Heart of the Nation…
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Unpredictable, whimsical and captivating – Bernard Khoury distorts conventional architecture with his evocative buildings. Meet the architect who’s rewriting all the rules of urban living.…
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There’s something about meeting Salwa Chalhoub that gives you an irrepressible urge to collect art. She floats into the three-storey Opera Gallery in Downtown Beirut with her long dark silky smooth hair and the rhetoric…
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Eschewing simplicity for spectacular complexity, Hussein Bazaza is a rapidly rising star in the fashion industry who’s of the opinion local designers are wary of taking risks. That’s why this imaginative 26-year-old maverick approaches his…
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In Lebanon, a country that has collapsed, been built and then rebuilt multiple times, it is no surprise to find remnants of a glorious past. From the ancient Roman ruins of Baalbeck to the dilapidated,…
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