Etienne Bastormagi Architecture and Design - Interior design - Retail - Boba - Abstract artwork featuring layered color bands in black, red, pale yellow, teal, and white, with a textured teal lower section evoking marble or ice.

Project

Location

Date

Area

Program

Team
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Contractor

Photographer

BoBa

Beirut, Lebanon

2022

30 sqm

Exhibition Showroom

Etienne Bastormagi
in collaboration Nada Borgi

Alkhaliltc

Hussein Dbouk

  • If the city is the fast street machine, then this boutique is its urban pause moment.

    Inspired by David Hockney’s painting, Portrait of an Artist 1972, the ground is painted as a green large pool inviting visitors to come into the space.

Etienne Bastormagi Architecture and Design - Interior design - Retail - Boba - Street view of a yellow storefront with black-framed glass entrance, mural, upper-level greenery, and a pedestrian walking past parked cars.

  • THE AFTER LIFE

    The shop has been transformed into a gallery space entitled “Take Over” by photographer Ieva Saudergaite

    The key design elements have remained as such although the space has been slightly modified by the new gallerist.

Etienne Bastormagi Architecture and Design - Interior design - Retail - Boba - Minimalist interior with white walls, green floor, white curtains, black shelving on the left, and wall-mounted white shelves displaying small items.
  • Close-up of a paper or cardboard craft with a brown triangular shape, set against a light green background.
  • Interior of a room with white walls, a beige curtain, and a stack of bricks on a green floor. There are white floating shelves on the wall with small objects, and a modern decorative mirror leaning against the wall.
  • Modern black metal and wood bookshelf with books and a black chair inside a minimalist room with a white wall, green flooring, a stack of concrete blocks as a platform, and white curtains.
  • Interior view of a shelves display with a countertop made of stacked bricks in front, inside a store with a glass window showing street outside.
Etienne Bastormagi Architecture and Design - Interior design - Retail - Boba - Bright minimalist interior with green floor and white walls, white curtains, shelving, a mirror on a concrete base, and a black metal and wood unit lit by natural light.
Etienne Bastormagi Architecture and Design - Interior design - Retail - Boba - Floor plan of a house showing stairs, doors, and green yard areas.

  • the space is a slowing down place that invites visitors to linger.