Both in Paris and Beirut, Liza and Ziad Asseily love to support talents, be it in the culinary as well as in the design world, and truly enjoy these collaborations that mean a lot to them.
For the Paris design week 2018, they have presented the limited edition 153 lamp, co-designed by Karim Chaya and Frederick Gautier in a special evening event at Liza Restaurant.
Assembled in 50 copies, this moveable lamp made out of concrete and four hands designed cement square BlattChaya, 100% made in Beirut, last June 2018 in the Lebanese capital by FCK-Frederick Gautier and Karim Chaya. A medium to light, figuratively and literally, the creative dialogue between Paris and Beirut, a way to invite the rediscovery of the iconic buildings of modern Lebanese architecture that Frederick photographed while traveling and finally an object that underlines in the blink of an eye how much electricity – and electricity cuts – paces the everyday life in Lebanon. This is a project born by the encounter of Liza and Anne-France Berthelon, and their conversations together.