A few words with the designer: Peggy Raphaël Dabar
“ It must have all begun without my knowledge when I was a child!
I still remember the feeling of despair at the sight of an ancient house being destroyed,
a deep-rooted site being modernized, an old precious fabric being replaced!
I finished my Advertising degree, but knew that I had to do things that will create beauty,
inner peace or simply give a message.
I traveled from Lebanon to United States where I took my Master degree in Fine Arts,from “Tufts University”
and the “School of the Museum of Fine Arts” in Boston. These two degrees opposite in their way of thinking
contributed equally in creating the line of objects I am doing now.
Once back to our home country, my brother Charbel and I came to realize that designing items that will promote the richness of our Mediterranean heritage was a dream we had to achieve. Around us we could see and certainly feel the skepticism regarding the extent of what we were doing. Still, in 2000 Eusamex was founded and “Images d’Orient” was born, along with many other products.
We started working from everywhere and anywhere, bedrooms, warehouse…!
Our ideas and way of thinking often collided, but we were good partners and especially good friends and our aim was the same.
We created a line of day to day objects that combined the charm of a Mediterranean history with the contemporary look
of the chosen material: PVC.
The home line is now traveling all over the world and was positively accepted as a new design trend.
In fact, every new collection is always finding echoes with different cultures around the globe...”