Founded in 2002 by design enthusiasts Souheil and Hala Hanna, XXe Siècle Gallery specializes in midcentury decorative arts.
At the time they started, there was no field dedicated to modern antiques in the Middle East. It was obvious for them that this gap had to be filled, particularly that there had been a golden age in Beirut for decorative arts back in the fifties. They started focusing our interest on Jean Royère, a major figure in furniture design who worked in Lebanon. Souheil and Hala Hanna spent years exhuming his works, gradually opening up to the seventies and starting to create their own designs.
Today XXe Siècle organizes exhibitions in its premises and sells rare designs in auction houses around the world. Their pieces now prevail in prestigious collectors’ homes worldwide.
For this edition of Beirut Design Fair, Souheil and Hala Hanna are pleased to collaborate with Chrystyna Salam, with whom they share the same passion for midcentury ceramics, mixing their furniture with her earthenware.