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Guillaume Excoffier Matthieu Salvaing

Modernist Beirut

Guillaume Excoffier,  Matthieu Salvaing

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English
Editions Norma
01 November 2023
Architectural structure & design
From the 1950s, Beirut and Lebanon have been a veritable laboratory of architectural modernity in the Middle East, calling on the greatest national and international architects. Institutions and large Lebanese companies have turned to concrete and so-called brutalist forms, participating fully to the renewal of world architecture.

If Lebanon gave birth to a flowering of exemplary buildings of this period, this work is an invitation to discover more than thirty, often unknown and admirably captured by the gaze by Matthieu Salvaing.

By their selection, the authors invite the reader to follow in their footsteps at the heart of the various modernist experiences who crossed Lebanon as so many testimonies of an international and generous vision.

Public commissions, such as the emblematic Tripoli International Fair built by Oscar Niemeyer or the Ministry of Defense of André Wogenscky, with private villas such as those created by Henri Edde, passing by the Interdesign building of Khalil Khoury, this work is the celebration of a history happy with Lebanon, rooted in modernity and open to the world.

Text in English and French.

AUTHORS: Guillaume Excoffier is a merchant, gallery owner and decorator, and lives between Paris and Dubai. A specialist in Brazilian furniture and French furniture from the '80s, he lived for several years in Beirut where he founded the Gabriel et Guillaume design gallery in 2013, now based in New York.

Matthieu Salvaing is a photographer specialising in architecture and design. He collaborates regularly with AD and World of Interiors magazines. Eternal traveller, he spent many stays in Brazil which allowed him to produce the book Oscar Niemeyer (Assouline, 2001). His reports gave birth to the book Voyages interieurs (Rizzoli, 2020).

200 colour illustrations
By:   ,
Imprint:   Editions Norma
Country of Publication:   France
Dimensions:   Height: 380mm,  Width: 280mm,  Spine: 33mm
Weight:   3.366kg
ISBN:   9782376660798
ISBN 10:   2376660793
Pages:   312
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Matthieu Salvaing is a photographer specialising in architecture and design. He collaborates regularly with AD and World of Interiors magazines. Eternal traveller, he spent many stays in Brazil which allowed him to produce the book Oscar Niemeyer (Assouline, 2001). His reports gave birth to the book Voyages interieurs (Rizzoli, 2020). Guillaume Excoffier is a merchant, gallery owner and decorator, and lives between Paris and Dubai. A specialist in Brazilian furniture and French furniture from the '80s, he lived for several years in Beirut where he founded the Gabriel et Guillaume design gallery in 2013, now based in New York.

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