{"id":6892,"date":"2022-08-02T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2022-07-31T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T10:34:38","slug":"exhibition-beirut-the-eras-of-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/en\/design\/exhibition-beirut-the-eras-of-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: Beirut. The Eras of Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Sommaire<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f1a7d5dcd9f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f1a7d5dcd9f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/en\/design\/exhibition-beirut-the-eras-of-design\/#14_Lebanese_designers_are_presented_in_the_Grand-Hornu_a_message_of_hope_a_commitment_to_the_future\" >14 Lebanese designers are presented in the Grand-Hornu: a message of hope, a commitment to the future.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/en\/design\/exhibition-beirut-the-eras-of-design\/#In_the_early_2000s_the_development_of_creative_centers_and_the_penchant_for_design_resurfaced\" >In the early 2000s, the development of creative centers and the penchant for design resurfaced.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A city at the crossroads of the East and the West, Beirut has been experiencing an excitement in all artistic fields since the early 2000s. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition Beirut. The Eras of Design will be held at the CID, Centre d&#8217;Innovation et de Design in Grand-Hornu, from April 24 to August 14, 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"14_Lebanese_designers_are_presented_in_the_Grand-Hornu_a_message_of_hope_a_commitment_to_the_future\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">14 Lebanese designers are presented in the Grand-Hornu: a message of hope, a commitment to the future.<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition pays tribute to the evolution of art and craft design in a very chaotic context of civil war (1975 to 1990), political and economic dysfunction after the war, and the double explosion in the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6858\" style=\"width: 685px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6858\" class=\"center wp-image-6858\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BEYROUTH_CID_CAROLINE_DETHIER_136.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BEYROUTH_CID_CAROLINE_DETHIER_136.jpg 1476w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BEYROUTH_CID_CAROLINE_DETHIER_136-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BEYROUTH_CID_CAROLINE_DETHIER_136-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caroline Dethier<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Screen designed for the Alcazar Hotel (in 1959-amended in 2021) by Serge Sassouni. <\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Materials: wood, bronze and iron.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6852\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6852\" class=\"center wp-image-6852\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BEYROUTH_CID_CAROLINE_DETHIER_33.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BEYROUTH_CID_CAROLINE_DETHIER_33.jpg 1476w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BEYROUTH_CID_CAROLINE_DETHIER_33-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caroline Dethier<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">View of the exhibition in the first room of the CID. <\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yara -Maya-Zeina -Racha, turned brass objects; Studio Carlo Massoud 2010<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cid-grand-hornu.be\/fr\/expositions\/beyrouth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition\u00a0<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beirut. The Eras of design<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0will attempt to analyze this specific situation which simultaneously combines economic and architectural reconstruction, social awareness and international development. Design alone symbolizes this desire to take hold of its destiny and its image by proposing objects and forms that are aware of multiple heritages but also deeply rooted in a complex reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6861\" style=\"width: 811px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6861\" class=\"center wp-image-6861\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gravitation-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" width=\"801\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gravitation-scaled.jpg 2279w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gravitation-768x863.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gravitation-1368x1536.jpg 1368w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gravitation-1824x2048.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In\u00e8s Prioux de B<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gravitation, suspension 2018; Spokedesign. <\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">600 sheets of Japanese paper &#8220;Washi&#8221;, stainless steel<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"In_the_early_2000s_the_development_of_creative_centers_and_the_penchant_for_design_resurfaced\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the early 2000s, the development of creative centers and the penchant for design resurfaced.<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We count on young Lebanese designers who already have a good reputation such as Marc Baroud, Christian Zahr, Karim Chaya, Thomas Trad, Carla Baz&#8230;..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beginning of 2010 will undoubtedly be the culmination of the positive dynamics for design in Lebanon; in 2017, the first fair, the Beirut Design Fair, dedicated to furniture and design objects, emerged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition at the Grand-Hornu was set up in two of their beautiful halls as a shattered exhibition space reflecting the fragile context in which Lebanese designers live and work, and also evoking the historical and modern ruins still present in Beirut.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6843\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6843\" class=\"center wp-image-6843\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE16.-Karen-Chekerdjian-\u2013-Iqar-Table-\u2013-2003-\u00a9-Nadim-Asfar-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" width=\"900\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE16.-Karen-Chekerdjian-\u2013-Iqar-Table-\u2013-2003-\u00a9-Nadim-Asfar-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE16.-Karen-Chekerdjian-\u2013-Iqar-Table-\u2013-2003-\u00a9-Nadim-Asfar-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE16.-Karen-Chekerdjian-\u2013-Iqar-Table-\u2013-2003-\u00a9-Nadim-Asfar-1536x1165.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE16.-Karen-Chekerdjian-\u2013-Iqar-Table-\u2013-2003-\u00a9-Nadim-Asfar-2048x1553.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadim Asfar<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iquar, Coffee table, polished aluminum and mirror Karen Chekerdjian &#8211; 2003 | <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Very strong, powerful and symbolic object of the whole war period in Lebanon<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6846\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6846\" class=\"center wp-image-6846\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE87.-Thomas-Trad-\u2013-Eva-Paravent-2016-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE87.-Thomas-Trad-\u2013-Eva-Paravent-2016-scaled.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE87.-Thomas-Trad-\u2013-Eva-Paravent-2016-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE87.-Thomas-Trad-\u2013-Eva-Paravent-2016-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE87.-Thomas-Trad-\u2013-Eva-Paravent-2016-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caroline Dethier<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eva, folding screen 2016 Thomas Trad. <\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wood, lacquer, stainless steel, brass, wicker <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">| This object uses many different craft techniques and their natural beauty that strongly influenced the young designer Thomas Trad.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6849\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6849\" class=\"center wp-image-6849\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE129.-Carla-Baz-\u2013-Minerals-Low-Table-in-Brescia-Viola-Marble-\u2013-2018-\u00a9-Marco-Pinarelli-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Beyrouth\" width=\"900\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE129.-Carla-Baz-\u2013-Minerals-Low-Table-in-Brescia-Viola-Marble-\u2013-2018-\u00a9-Marco-Pinarelli-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE129.-Carla-Baz-\u2013-Minerals-Low-Table-in-Brescia-Viola-Marble-\u2013-2018-\u00a9-Marco-Pinarelli-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE129.-Carla-Baz-\u2013-Minerals-Low-Table-in-Brescia-Viola-Marble-\u2013-2018-\u00a9-Marco-Pinarelli-1536x793.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BE129.-Carla-Baz-\u2013-Minerals-Low-Table-in-Brescia-Viola-Marble-\u2013-2018-\u00a9-Marco-Pinarelli-2048x1057.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marco Pinarelli<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Minerals Low Table in Brescia Viola marble 2018 Carla Baz<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlabaz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carla Baz<\/a> graduated in interior architecture from the ESAG in Paris and in design from the ECAL in Lausanne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She worked in London with Zaha Hadid and Vivienne Westwood, two renowned designers. At home, she collaborated with artisans by reinterpreting techniques to modernize them. Her works are sculptural and at the same time graceful and pure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She received the Design Award in 2013 from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villaempain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boghossian Foundation<\/a> (Brussels)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each object has hidden qualities and possibilities for interaction. The designers try to conciliate their personal commitment and creativity with the mission of making a whole ecosystem of artisans and know-how work. The purpose is to help preserve heritage and show the political class their commitment to the present and, above all, to the future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city at the crossroads of the East and the West, Beirut has been experiencing an excitement in all artistic fields since the early 2000s. 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