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Local goods Beirut’s forte Retail — Shop ’til you drop

Liwan, Mar Mikhael In-house creations

Designer Lina Audi opened There’s no shortage of the first Liwan boutique in opportunity to part with Paris’s Saint-Germain before some cash while in Beirut. branching out to Beirut. Here, As well as a healthy quota surrounded by restaurants, from venerated design bars and other retailers, her names such as Nada shop is well placed to show Debs, Bokja and Orient Zawal, Mar Mikhael Orient 499, Clemenceau off its babouche slippers, Artisans du Liban et d’Orient, 499, the diverse retail Artisan acquisitions Traditions updated loungewear and bed linen, as Ein el Mraysseh offering is populated well as serving trays and bowls Promoting regional craftsmanship with small-scale fashion On the eastern fringes of Frank Luca and Aida Kawas with modernist metalwork. labels, many of which Mar Mikhael’s retail and wanted to refresh the concept Liwan doubles as an The late Nadia El-Khoury have been fostered restaurant cluster is Zawal, of craft and shift the products interior-design showroom but took over Artisans du Liban et through the creative- which pulls together the work into a more modern sphere. Audi is perhaps best known for d’Orient shortly after the death industry launchpad Starch of some of the region’s most Orient 499 is the result of their her clothing line – a modern of its founder, May El-Khoury. Foundation (see page 55). talented but often overlooked endeavours, a hybrid of the take on traditional Middle She went on to become one of The city is also home artisans. The team in charge duo’s penchant for the avant Eastern fashion. the first in the city to propose a to canny shop owners here is also behind the series garde and their support for the 56 Madrid Street contemporary interpretation of who have turned their of Beyt guesthouses, restaurant preservation of Middle Eastern 1961 (0)1 444 141 traditional oriental fare. attention to highlighting Makan (see page 33) and makers and cultural heritage. liwanlifestyle.com Beneath the whitewashed, the many and varied shop Plan Bey (see page 55), “For such a small country, vaulted ceilings of her tucked- artisan crafts in the region, which has its original outpost is spoiled for talented away shop, coppersmiths, rejigging tapestry-making, next door. designers,” says Luca. It’s Small wonder woodworkers, glass-blowers, metalwork and tailoring This wide-reaching network an opinion he backs up with — soap-makers, weavers and for a more contemporary is reflected in the shop’s inventory from an impressive It may be petite but The Carton embroiderers have all found take on the traditional. goods, which range from array of makers including – the multi-brand shop from a space to offer their goods And with a healthy hand-stamped sheets by Zena jewellers, tailors and carpenters the makers of the eponymous new life. We recommend you representation of multi- Sabbagh to traditional mouth- – all on display in this bright magazine – has a big offering. plan a visit around sunset brand men’s and women’s blown recycled glass by Baal. Clemenceau space. Located in Kalei Coffee, it sells so you can peruse the wares outposts, independent “Zawal is home to works 499 Omar Daouk Street, gear from Lebanon’s new wave before enjoying the seaside bookshops and vintage- that we feel embody true 1961 (0)1 369 499 of makers. Fans of the title can view from the pretty terrace, furniture stop-offs, we Lebanese artisan culture,” orient499.com also peruse copies on display. a Turkish coffee in hand. guarantee your wallet will says co-founder Tony Sfeir. artandthensome.com Rafik Hariri Avenue get a good workout. Geara Building, Armenia Street 1961 (0)1 362 610 1961 (0)1 444 110

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Specialist shops Niche markets Ideo Parfumeurs, Gemmayzeh Iwan Maktabi, Furn el Heaven scent Floor show

In 2006, French-Algerian “Carpets in the Ludmila Bitar quit her job in are like jewellery,” says Chirine L’Oréal’s marketing head office Maktabi, the third-generation and moved to Beirut with her executive manager of venerated Lebanese husband Antoine. carpet seller Iwan Maktabi. With her marketing know-how It’s a sentiment reflected in and training from Japanese the showroom, with four floors perfume house Takasago, the of rugs, many created by the duo founded Ideo Parfumeurs in-house design team. Crafted in 2013 – a bold step in a in wool, silk, nettle, hemp and city known for favouring big felt, they span styles from international cosmetic brands. traditional Arabic patterns Just a year later Ideo to more modern motifs. opened its first shop to sell Running the business since the bold scents and candles. the 1920s, the Maktabis have “We’re inspired by Beirut’s strong ties to the world’s best contradictions, so we like to weavers and source their mix ingredients that don’t carpets from Iran, Morocco normally go together,” says and more. The emphasis Bitar. “It’s a marriage of the remains on quality, with 90 per orient and Europe.” cent of their stock handmade. Gouraud Street Quantum Tower, ideoparfumeurs.com Rana Salam Studio, Charles Malek Avenue Gemmayzeh 1961 (0)1 336 301 Pop star iwanmaktabi.com

While pursuing her MA at Sarah’s Bag, Sursock the Royal College of Arts in Bags of conscience London, Rana Salam dedicated her studies to Middle Eastern The foundation of Sarah popular culture. Aiming to Beydoun’s eccentric handbag recapture lost pop visuals from label was laid during a prison her home region, she began visit she made in 2000 while unconsciously exporting her researching for her sociology culture to the West. “Through degree. Wanting to arm female the images people discovered prisoners with skills, an income their own identity and fell in and a project, Beydoun love with the idea,” she says. designed a series of bags and After moving back to enlisted inmates to craft them. Beirut in 2010, she remained The first exhibition of tied to the UK by founding 12 bags sold instantly so a cross-cultural studio that Beydoun launched the label that specialises in branding and has since grown to draw on a design. Salam creates products wealth of traditional design and – from cushions printed employ more than 200 women. with Egyptian pop icons to “We try to modernise crafts accessories carrying symbols that we know exist in the region of contemporary street style and push their boundaries to – that tell a story of Middle turn the bags into daily items,” Eastern pop culture, though says Beydoun. not without a wink of humour 1F, Mhanna Building, and a nod to the kitsch. 100 Lebanon Street Zoghbi Building, Lebanon Street 1961 (0)1 575 586 1961 (0)1 446 216 shop.sarahsbag.com ranasalam.com

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Homeware Inner pieces

Ardeco, Furn el Hayek Vintage to modern designs

This business was founded by architect Elie Amatoury in 1998, out of a passion for art deco, and now includes more than a century’s worth of primarily European design history with pieces from the likes of Émile- Jacques Ruhlmann, Pierre Paulin Metal & Wood, Clemenceau and Ettore Sottsass. The glitzy Small-batch furniture new showroom has furniture and fixtures from the 1970s The story of Metal & Wood, onwards, while the original located in once-staid Ardeco space across the street Clemenceau, is a familiar Over the Counter, Monot offers wares from art nouveau one. Founder Rached Sultan A focus on craftsmanship to postwar pop. initially struggled to attract “We love creating a special people to his shop when it In 2007, Rania Abillama atmosphere by mixing vintage opened in 2011 – whereas Karam put the brakes on her pieces with contemporary now the area is buzzing with career in truck-manufacturing design,” says managing partner retailers, galleries, guesthouses to gear up for a personal Georges Amatoury. “It makes and cafés. venture. “I wanted to put my for personalised interiors far Sultan started off importing favourite things in life together from the ‘catalogue look’.” vintage furniture and then under one roof,” she says. 79 Trabaud Street Bokja, Saifi Village expanded the range to include Thus homeware shop Over the 1961 (0)1 338 785 Pieces with a wild side homeware from both Japanese Counter was born as a space for ardeco.org and Scandinavian labels. More dynamic design. The name of this Beirut-based recently, he has introduced his The team now sources its brand – which comes from the own line of furniture. “I want products from multiple design Turkish word for the fabric to produce small-batch stuff Nada Debs, Gemmayzeh schools and countries, uniting that was historically used as a well, be an affordable brand Cultural convergence emerging brands with special bride’s dowry – was born when but not skimp on materials,” commissions. Pieces showcased Huda Baroudi placed one of says Youssef. Nada Debs’ product-design in the sprawling three-level the antique textiles she had 105 America Street label predates her own life – or shop include vintage Danish collected on top of a period 1961 (0)1 367 480 so the story goes. It is said that furniture and Japanese crafts, chair that Maria Hibri was metalandwoodstore.com her great uncle went to China as well as limited-edition and selling. That simple, fateful to seek a certain fabric, only to original designer pieces. gesture led to a decades- be redirected to Japan. There 150 Abdel Wahab el Inglizi Street long partnership marrying he settled, making the Debs 1961 (0)1 322 786 contemporary objects with Squeaky clean one of the community’s first over-thecounter.com ornate fabrics. — Arab families. The founding duo (both Senteurs d’Orient has put a Debs’ designs reflect her pictured, Baroudi on right) also modern twist on the Arabic efforts to fuse those two use their design work as a craft of soap pressing. Mother- cultures. “It’s about finding soapbox to speak out against daughter team Hana and the balance between the two social injustice. Sarah Akkari blend the bathing Easts,” she says. The result 332 Mukhallassiya Street cultures of Japan and Lebanon is a unique union between 1961 (0)1 975 576 to make eastern-inspired soaps extravagant Islamic aesthetics bokjadesign.com with olive oil, jasmine and cedar. and Japanese simplicity. senteursdorient.com Saad Building, Gouraud Street 1961 (0)1 568 111 nadadebs.com

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Concept stores Three more Diwan Ammar, Basta Bright ideas Starch Foundation, Saifi Village furniture outposts Oriental treasures Emerging designers

01 Karim Bekdache, Piles of forgotten photos, Behind this ever-changing Bourj Hammoud: Not calligraphy volumes, tarnished space is a non-profit only did Paris-trained tea sets and ornate furniture organisation established by architect Karim Bekdache lie cluttered in the souks and womenswear designer Rabih design the layout for the shopfronts of Basta, Beirut’s Kayrouz (see page 59) and Bourj Hammoud-based top destination for antiques. Tala Hajjar in 2008. Their gallery and studio space Diwan Ammar is one of the objective was to move the city’s D Beirut, he also displays neighbourhood’s more refined creative industries forward. his range of restored retailers, with a history dating “The burden of starting a furniture inside it. Think back to the 1940s. business, whether here or pencil-legged sofas Second-generation owner elsewhere, is heavy – and with mid-century Youssef Ammar focuses emerging designers end up echoes, as well as the mainly on Islamic pieces but doing everything but focusing occasional masterpiece more broadly on the oriental. on the product, which is a by Jean Royère. The geographical spread on shame,” says Hajjar. “So we karimbekdache.com offer spans Lebanon, Turkey, try and remove that burden.” 02 Maria Halios, Mar Syria, Morocco and Iran The programme offers Mikhael: Product while the archive has included mentoring, press contacts and and furniture designer such pieces as an Ottoman- free use of the Saifi Village Maria Halios is one of style cabinet and a Baccarat Ginette, Gemmayzeh shopfront, meaning the roster the artists who operates crystal chandelier – not bad Furniture, fashion and food of products is never the same, within Lebanon’s new considering it was almost 200 from fashion or lighting to wave of contemporary years old. This smart concept store artwork. The talent, however, homeware design. Visit Kharsa Street combines fashion, homeware is always fostered locally and Halios’s Mar Mikhael 1961 (0)1 658 483 and art with healthy café fare. has counted among its alumni showroom to see her At the front of the space is a Lara Khoury, Timi Hayek and collection, which both bistro-style restaurant, known Krikor Jabotian. draws its influences for its labneh breakfast and 1051 Said Akel Street from and marries farm-fresh lunch menu, while 1961 (0)1 566 079 together her Greek and at the back is a retail area. The starchfoundation.org Lebanese diasporas. whole is seamlessly integrated mariahalios.com by Lebanese firm Raëd 03 PSLab, Mar Mikhael: Abillama Architects. Plan Bey, Gemmayzeh While it isn’t a walk-in The shop carries furniture Looking good shop per se, the Nicolas from the likes of Swiss firm Turk Street laboratory usm and fashion by a rotating Beirut-based publisher Plan of this design brand has roster of both young Lebanese Bey was founded in 2010 by more than 80 people designers and more well- graphic designer and artistic working inside to create known labels. Up the concrete director Karma Tohmé and lighting installations and stairs, the second floor is entrepreneur and editorial products for site-specific home to Ginette’s furniture director Tony Sfeir. The duo projects – you’ll see and offices. has since opened three outposts many examples in Gouraud Street across the city to sell their bars and shops across 1961 (0)1 570 440 vibrant publications, which the city. The lighting ginettebeirut.com range from books to prints. label has also gone “Everything displayed international, with studios in the shops, with very few Now that’s in Stuttgart, London, more like exceptions, is created by us,” Amsterdam, Antwerp, it... says Tohmé. She and Sfeir Dubai and Bologna. draw inspiration from vintage pslab.net film posters, calligraphy, photographs and more. Gouraud Street 1961 (0)1 444 110 plan-bey.com

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Mixed fashion His and hers IF Boutique, Port District Legendary leather

Sadly there’s not enough space here to detail the life and escapades of leather designer and IF owner Johnny Farah (pictured). Rubbing shoulders with Arne Jacobsen and Fritz Hansen, and having lunch with Andy Warhol, is just a taster. Farah started out helping a leather worker for pocket money while studying mechanical engineering in Denmark in the 1960s – today, 6:05, Furn el Hayek he’s still designing handsome Party dress and practical bags and shoes. Helped by his sisters, Farah This lively retail stop-off is well is courageous in his choices, known not only for finding buying from designers early and fostering homegrown and taking a chance with the streetwear labels but also for clothing he stocks. hosting after-work parties at – Fayad Building, Darvich you guessed it – 18.05. Label Haddad Street launches, collaboration events LE66, Downtown 1961 (0)1 570 244 Lara Khoury, Gemmayzeh and more vague merriment in French evolution ifsohonewyork.com Fashion statements the name of celebrating design are reason enough for the The original Parisian home After kickstarting her career DJ booth and pop-up bar to of le66, and the source of in 2010 with the help of Rabih appear kerbside. its name, is 66 Avenue des Kayrouz (see page 59) and Tala The two-storey shop stocks Aïshti, Downtown Champs-Elysées. The French Hajjar’s fashion launchpad all of the regular international boutique hub launched its Starch Foundation (see page streetwear contenders but it’s Tony Salamé first became a Lebanese outpost in the heart 55), Lara Khoury (pictured) the young Lebanese brands prominent name in Lebanon of Beirut’s downtown shopping has garnered a reputation that pull the crowds. The in 1989, when his first Aïshti district in 2015. Architect as one of the city’s most buyers at 6:05 play to this department store entered the Isabelle Stanislas collaborated promising (and outspoken) strength, managing to secure luxury retail market; later he with artist Patricia Marshall designers. While style in the exclusive lines for both men would attract attention for his on the interiors and sought Middle East can veer towards and women. (arguably) ostentatious private inspiration from Beirut’s many the flamboyant, Khoury’s range Zen Building, Charles gallery the Aïshti Foundation faces, creating a space where of men’s and womenswear Malek Avenue (see page 88). Now his multi- smart copper shelves and has found a tasteful balance, 1961 (0)1 335 450 brand department store has marble tables contrast with offsetting flamboyant fabrics 605.com.lb five locations nationwide and raw concrete walls. with pared-back cuts or more than 20 franchises in Shoppers can expect four creating extravagant destinations such as Dubai, floors of youthful threads, garments in quieter tones. La belle vie Kuwait and Amman. shoes and accessories for men “Clients here are — On home soil, the most and women, from brands extravagant, they aren’t The team at Furn el Hayek’s central Aïshti location is in such as Yeezy, Aspesi, Giorgio afraid of wearing voluminous The Good Life is on the ball the Solidere-renovated Beirut Brato and Être Cécile. It’s this and statement pieces,” says when it comes to trainers; think Souks in Downtown. Here selection that has positioned Khoury. Phone ahead to kicks from limited production you’ll find five floors dedicated le66 Beirut at the heart of ensure a viewing of Khoury’s runs, interesting collaborations to high-end men’s, women’s what the group’s joint ceo contemporary collections in and hard-to-find brands. A little and some kidswear from the Cherif Tabet has called her Gemmayzeh studio. off the beaten track, it’s for likes of Gucci, Prada and Dries “affordable luxury”. 406 Gouraud Street the real fanatics. Van Noten. There’s also a thegoodlifespace.com 151 Foch Street 1961 (0)1 443 426 restaurant, spa and hair salon. 1961 (0)1 985 470 larakhoury.com aishti.com le66.fr

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Menswear Womenswear Look sharp Trunk, Saifi Village Dress to impress Piaff, Clemenceau Innovative styles Pushing the boundaries

This multi-brand shop In the early 1980s, Najla and was founded by Marilyn Sosi Maatouk opened Piaff Bouchakjian in 2013 before Plum, Downtown in Beirut with the objective being snapped up by Beirut’s International and edgy of satisfying women who menswear protagonists Pia “wanted to express themselves and Nadim Chammas in Since opening Plum in 2004, differently and not follow 2016. The assembly of labels co-owners Raya Dernaika trends systematically,” says is contemporary and on point and Mira Mikati have made son and current owner Nabil with what’s emerging at the it their mission to find “the Al Houssami. Since then, the latest major fashion weeks. beautiful and non-clichéd”. shop has introduced pioneering “Our customers are Via their bricks-and-mortar European designers into the demanding,” says Nadim. shop, the pair have succeeded Lebanese market, including “They come to Trunk to not only in making the brand Simone Rocha. find the most modern and an expression of who they are Even today, with an inventive innovative labels, with a – forward-thinking – but also space, innovative displays clean style and high-quality a power player in Lebanese and audacious selection, manufacturing.” Expect threads womenswear retail. Piaff maintains an edge that from the likes of Officine The space encompasses places it on the fringes of the Générale and Ron Dorff, an impeccably selected mainstream market. plus a hoard of shoes, eyewear, international wardrobe of Clemenceau Street bags and fragrances. high-end labels such as Monse, 1961 (0)1 362 368 Mkhallsiyeh Street Alaïa, Balmain, Christopher 1961 (0)1 973 347 Kane and Rosie Assoulin, as trunkconceptstore.com well as contemporary creations by the likes of Jacquemus, JW Anderson and Sacai. The sleek fit-out is care of homegrown The Slowear Store, Downtown architect Raëd Abillama. Maison Rabih Kayrouz, Timeless pieces Berytus Building, Fakhry Port District Bey Street High-fashion hero Operating under Venice-based 1961 (0)1 976 565 parent brand Slowear, the plumconcept.com Rabih Kayrouz has played a Beirut outpost was brought key role in the development to town by Pia and Nadim of Lebanon’s haute couture Chammas. Opening in 2012, scene. Since founding his it helped plug a gap in the label in 1997, he has crafted market. “There were few local season after season of minimal multi-brand shops dedicated yet sculptural dresses. He’s to men; most of the attention also a co-founder of fashion was focused on the women’s launchpad Starch Foundation market,” says Nadim. (see page 55) and was a member Unlike the Chammas’ other of the Chambre Syndicale de la shop Trunk (see right), which Haute Couture in Paris. favours young brands that In 2009 the brand moved follow the trends, Slowear its offices to Paris’s Saint carries more established labels Germain, where it also has an such as Incotex, Montedoro atelier and showroom. Kayrouz and Zanone. “Each of these continues to live between does one thing – trousers, shirts, Beirut and Paris and his jackets and knitwear – and one ethereal pieces are equally at thing only,” says Nadim. “And home in both cities. they do it very well.” Fayad Building, Darwish Patriarch Haddad Street 1961 (0)1 999 230 1961 (0)1 444 221 slowear.com maisonrabihkayrouz.com

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Bookshops Three more Beirut-based Bound to impress Aaliya’s Books, Gemmayzeh womenswear designers Temple of literature

01 Timi Hayek, Monot: Expats and pals Niamh Sitting alongside breezy Fleming-Farrell and William cafés and restaurants Dobson were frustrated by on Monot Street, Timi the predictable selection of Hayek’s bright and tidy English-language books in space is where she sells the city’s chain retailers. “One her relaxed ready-to-wear evening, after drinking a fair collections and tailored amount of whiskey, we realised made-to-order garments. that this was something we Hayek is another to have both felt,” says Dobson. “So, started her business with we decided then and there to help from the Starch open a bookshop.” Foundation (see page 55). The idea expanded from timihayek.com a bookshop inside a café to 02 Vanina, Gemmayzeh: the duo buying the café and Playful womenswear label tailoring the entire space to Vanina can be found in celebrate literature. As for a whitewashed shop on the books, the well-read staff Gouraud Street. Tatiana have stocked their favourites, Fayad and Joanne Hayek including a mixture of launched the brand with contemporary, classics, poetry a single jewellery line in and a healthy selection of Always room for 2007 but the offering has regional novelists. one more! grown to include on-trend The Alleyway, Gouraud Street cuts and bold fabrics. 1961 (0)1 566 375 The entire range is made in Lebanon. vanina.me Papercup, Mar Mikhael 03 Krikor Jabotian, Furn Well-stocked selection el Hayek: By the tender age of 23, Krikor Jabotian Rania Naufal’s bookshop-cum- had graduated from café was years in the making. university, worked in She let the concept bubble Dar Bistro & Books, The Little Bookshop, Hamra Elie Saab’s creative away while studying publishing Clemenceau Small space, big appeal department, designed at nyu and working at the A piece of quiet his first collection with partly family-owned magazine Given its diminutive the guidance of the and book wholesaler Levant This serene hideaway is a few proportions, The Little Starch Foundation Distributors. Then, in June blocks from the hectic drag of Bookshop offers a mighty (seeing a pattern yet?) 2009, she struck out on Hamra Street. The lounge-like selection for English literature and launched his her own and opened her bookshop, complete with leafy in the heart of Hamra. Owner eponymous atelier. bolthole bookshop in a Mar patio café, is an anomaly in and sole employee Adib Rahhal Jabotian then brought Mikhael sidestreet. the city and therefore favoured had dreamed of opening a his family on board to The cosy space, designed Tale of the tape by local bookworms. bookshop since his college days expand the business, by FaR Architects and — As well as international and handpicks the collection of a move which has seen Karim Chaya, features a For records, head to fiction, magazines (including contemporary fiction, classics, his range of high-end magazine stack and catalogue Roy Hayek’s Super Out monocle), coffee-table poetry and non-fiction. evening gowns and of design, architecture, art, Discotheque, which boasts an tomes and special-interest Also among the stacks of bridalwear travel all cinema, fashion, photography, extensive vinyl and cassette publications, there’s a section titles piled floor to ceiling are the way to Hollywood. advertising and kids’ books collection of 20th-century dedicated to Lebanese history. smaller selections on the arts, krikorjabotian.com that would give any leading Arabic music. You can even Dar also hosts regular book cinema and music. Best call major city bookshop a run commission Hayek to make launches, readings and ahead because Rahhal keeps for its money. you a mixtape of his most community events. loose opening hours. Agopian Building, Pharaon Street recommended tracks. Alley 83 off Roma Street Makdisi Building, Armenia Street 1961 (0)1 443 083 1961 (0)1 373 348 Jeanne d’Arc Street papercupstore.com darbistroandbooks.com 1961 (0)1 740 270

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1 2 01 Embroidered doll by 13 Things The Ana Collection theanacollection.org we’d buy 02 Natural beeswax candles from Zawal — Talking shop 12 1961 (0)1 444 110 03 Senteurs d’Orient soaps from Artisan du Liban et d’Orient 3 1961 (0)1 875 416 04 Backgammon board from Artisanat Chehab 1961 3 561 451 14 15 05 Yellow copper coffee set by Orient 499 orient499.com 06 Lebanese film postcards from Plan Bey 4 plan-bey.com 07 Château Ksara Blanc de Blancs from Score Market 1961 (0)1 344 411 08 Arak Touma from Score Market 1961 (0)1 344 411 09 Rose water from Tawlet soukeltayeb.com/tawlet 10 Baal carafe from Zawal 16 17 1961 (0)1 444 110 There’s a bagful of 11 Coffee cups from Takkoush opportunities to spend Verdun Street big while in Beirut. The 12 Wooden boards and mother- abounding creative of-pearl coasters by Nada Debs scene mixed with that nadadebs.com unabashed Lebanese 13 Baklava from Amal Bohsali entrepreneurial spirit abohsali.com.lb means there’s always an 5 14 Crackers and fig jam interesting collaboration from Goodies or social project producing goodies.com.lb tempting goods, whether 6 15 Zaatar herb mix from Tawlet it be a calligraphy book soukeltayeb.com/tawlet published by Plan Bey 18 19 16 Chiselled brass trays or embroidered dolls by Liwan inspired by the stories liwanlifestyle.com 7 8 of refugees. 17 Fragrances and candles Then there’s a cohort by Ideo Parfumeurs of venerated brands – 9 ideoparfumeurs.com including Liwan, Nada 18 Johnny Farah satchel from Debs and Senteurs 10 IF Boutique d’Orient – that weave 1961 (0)1 570 244 Lebanese craftwork 11 20 19 Hamsa and evil eye and aesthetics into talismans by Orient 499 contemporary clothing, orient499.com homeware and soaps. And 20 Men’s slippers and let’s not forget a few tasty women’s sandals by Liwan treats for the larder, so the liwanlifestyle.com flavours of Lebanon can linger long after you leave.

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