We Design Beirut is one week away from transforming into a living canvas. Five landmark locations, each carrying its own intimate history with Beirut, will open as spaces for reflection, re-imagination, and rediscovery of a city ridden with triumphs and disappointment. Here’s a closer look at what to expect at each location during We Design Beirut.

At this historic landmark, once a textile factory vital to the community, three exhibitions – on view daily from 11 AM to 9 PM – demonstrate how creation, memory, and resistance intersect across craft, material, and image.

Métiers d’Art transforms the Abroyan Factory into a living atelier that celebrates craftsmanship as process rather than product. The exhibition pairs Lebanese artisans with contemporary designers to reinterpret traditional craft through modern form, technique, and imagination. Visitors will encounter live demonstrations and collaborative installations – from glass blowing and clay work to rattan and marquetry – showcasing the movement and rhythm of making. Here, craft is a dialogue between heritage and innovation, between the seen and the felt. It’s an homage to the enduring skill of the hands that shape, weave, and transform raw material into cultural memory.

Threads of Life explores textile as a vessel of memory, identity, and resilience. The exhibition brings together artisans and designers, including Bokja, Inaash, Sarah’s Bag, and Salim Azzam, to showcase Lebanon’s diverse textile traditions through weaving, dyeing, stitching, and beading. Each thread carries a story of endurance and continuity, revealing the scars and beauty of a country in constant repair. By presenting textile as a living language, fragile yet unyielding, the exhibition reclaims craft as both art and archive, connecting the personal and collective through texture, rhythm, and time.


Read more on selectionsarts.com