Posts tagged Beirut
The Trendestrian
Spotting Unexpected Trends Around Me
Have your cake, and eat it too.
Designing your own furniture is a trend that’s been catching on in Beirut. Why settle for hi-end prices and limited options when you can customize your own pieces to fit your lifestyle?
Bokja and Loft 01 offer great options for customizing what was once perceived as “demode” into trendy pieces for your home or office. Think of it as retro-chic meets DIY. It looks so easy, doesn’t it? Suddenly that ugly chair in your grannie’s living room from the 60s has lots of potential. Don’t throw it out just yet Grannie!
For a while I’ve wondered why Ikea hasn’t moved to Lebanon yet - but when you see the creativity flourishing in the furniture design field, that’s not such a bad thing. Who wants to see their furniture in everyone else’s home anyway?
My studio is currently a work-in-progress and I’m slowly collecting my own pieces to give it that edgy touch. Designing my own furniture is an option that would certainly fit the small space I have to work with.
Steampunk in Beirut?
During today’s class on the steampunk movement, I decided to test the waters in Beirut through Facebook. Had anyone heard of it? Were any of my friends a part of it?
I only got a few responses that showed interest in the movement. “Chinks”, that’s mentioned in the response, is a girl living in Beirut. Maybe it does exist after all.
I had seen fashion designers play with the style and the movie “The Time Machine” comes to mind when I see the aviator glasses and time pieces. Steampunk is a visually interesting movement, but seems to jump between goth and burlesque at the same time. How does one coin a movement? Can all fashion movements be international, like the punk and goth? How do these movements manifest themselves in different countries?
I’d be curious to see if a steampunk movement does in fact exist Lebanon..
