About Lebanese Art Deco (Beirut)
Beirut's Art Deco is Paris filtered through palm shade — French Mandate architects layered Levantine sunburst reliefs, geometric calligraphy grilles, and gold-leaf ornament onto streamline moderne facades of cream limestone. The result is a cosmopolitan warmth unique to the Eastern Mediterranean.
This system captures that interwar elegance: terracotta and pistachio on sun-warmed stucco, Cormorant Display headlines that echo architectural friezes, horizontal banding rhythm, and wrought-iron geometry as compositional structure.
- Origin
- Lebanon (Beirut — Hamra, Achrafieh, Gemmayzeh, Mar Mikhael)
- Era
- 1920–1948 (French Mandate Beirut, peak 1925–1935)
- Key figures
- Antoun Tabet · Bahige Makdissi · Farid Trad · Aractingi brothers
- Movements
- Levantine Art Deco · French Mandate-era modernism · Mediterranean streamline moderne
Lebanese Art Deco (Beirut) design spec
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