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Annabel Karim Kassar Architects shows an architectural installation Camera Chiara with two pavilions; Liwan and Camera Obscura.
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Conceived to be reused and reassembled in a different location after its launch in Milan: the Liwan as a mobile shelter and the Camera Obscura as an itinerant cinema.
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Invited to the Energy For Creativity exhibition organized by the Italian magazine Interni, Annabel Karim Kassar Architects chose to display a monumental architectural structure in the Cortile 700 and a vision of everyday life in a Lebanese room.
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Through the bellows of old cameras, Kassar symbolizes stills of Lebanese lifestyles brought to life here by the actor-spectators entering, wandering through, contemplating and leaving the space.
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Two telescopic structures, named Liwan and Obscura respectively, made of raw metal and burnt dark and rough wooden planks face one another. Annabel Karim Kassar not only highlights savoir-faire but also French and Lebanese savoir-vivre.
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Attracted by the diffuse light from Saint-Gobain’s hand-blown glass, one is in for a rare experience – a piece of interior and a kind of cinema installation.
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Liwan is a tradition passed down from Ottoman constructions.
The wood floor was hand painted by craftspeople in the same patterns found on Lebanese ceramics.
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A sofa and vintage armchairs invite the visitor to sit. A vintage damask silk fabric covers the main couch.
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A recording of the hubbub of the city mixed with the traditional Arab music playing on a vintage gramophone and the singing of a bird comfortably perched on its cage.
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The quiet Obscura Pavilion is showing some movies talking about human stories, make up processes, craftsmanship… Source by Annabel Karim Kassar.
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Location: Milan, Italy
Architect: Annabel Karim Kassar
Creative Director: Annabel Karim Kassar
Project manager: Rabih Zeidan architect
Interior architect: Violaine Jeantet
Lighting designer: Christophe Hascoet, Caï light, Alain Pin
Produced: HSC
Contributors: Amar Foundation, Kamal Kassar, Caï light, Golran 1898, Imola Legno S.p.A., Francoise Subes, Sylumis
Area: around 50 sqm each
Year: 2015
Photographs: Nicolo Lanfranchi, Courtesy of Annabel Karim Kassar
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