







I'm not new to Pinterest, but I've been appreciating it more recently.

Rocky

A credenza featuring an angular and sculptural line

100% stainless steel

B: "Furniture designer", "lighting engineer," or "artist," - which do you think describes you best?

Wall sha-dows

Graphic composition texture illuminated by LED

Latticework of the game of chiaroscuro

Wall sha-dows

Wall sha-dows

Favorite material to work with?





Are you organic or geometric?

Ciné-tisme

Materials: corian and wood

A meeting between street art and Op'art,

scientific phenomenon of bistability disorder of perception









Which one of your pieces would you consider your favorite?

Candy Box for Habitat

Painted Wood





How has Lebanon influenced your work? Some works are titled using Arabic words. Is this a tribute to your roots?

Saida

Material: Faience

Inspired by the sails of Felouks shaped by the wind.

The organic shells with geometric shapes adorn to

the color palette of Mediterranean landscapes

Ahlan

The oriental influences get involved in the modernity of lines,

letting the light of the South through the panels

Cedar Lamp

Materials: lacquered steel, wood, mirrors, LEDs

Cedar Folding Screen

Material: metal

Do you think opportunities are richer in Paris or Beirut?

Moon

Materials: wood structure, ebony feet, and Kvadrat upholstery

Contemporary reinterpretation of the major classics from the 50's

Moon

Is there any Lebanese artist that you would particularly enjoy collaborating with?

2TUBES

Material: aluminium equipped with with an opal polycarbonate lens



2TUBES

Would you consider bringing your work to Lebanon, or making it available for purchase here?

Like all of you, I've done the 'Lebanon' search to see what pinners have been lusting on. My results: besides the images of Saifi's color fiesta and the glorious, colorful Gemmayze stairs by the Dihzahyners, I came across Charles Kalpakian.It was obsession at first sight, which isn't always the case with me and design. I'm a big fan of angular designs and he's mastered his sharp edges. I just regret discovering him this late in life, but alas.Born in Lebanon in 1982, Charles' work is highly inspired by Lebanon, France (where he now resides) and street art. In fact, many of his products are titled using Arabic words, including "Saida" (woohoo!) and "Ahlan".I have chosen a hybrid approach and i explore all the variation of our work. Product Designer is the right description, because i need constraint to built a project and not the artist.I like to find new solutions for a product, go back to see factories, the producers and the makers. A product need a good process to become something useful.I work on mixing material, try to create a family of material not specially one. I think about how materials can live together in a same objets, like brothers and sisters. I don't want to use a material because it's the trend now; I work a global way for a product, what is best answer for this project.My work is based on different world of geometric, I take aspects of both and blends them to create something new and contemporary. So i try to reappropriating Orientalism.The candy box for Habitat; they look like little houses in an Eastern village, structural and the same time powerful, colorful and energizing shapes. They are boxes for the welcoming and happiness in a house.Fascination of calligraphy, Middle East living, the crafts, the landscapes and to don't forgot the food. The Arabic names are poetic and very narrative.For the moment I live and work Paris, but my projects are across the world . I see the new art scene very powerful in Beirut and I would like to be a part of it, to make my contribution.I know david/nicolas, Carwan Gallery and SMO Gallery but I don't know artists well, maybe you can help me?I work on it with my dealers in Europe and hope soon in 2015.