With dozens of historic buildings and modern high rises in ruin following the Beirut blast of August 4, the Lebanese vow to rebuild what is left of their great city. Find out ways that you can help
products. Its Beirut headquarters is 500 metres away from the port. The blast left it in shambles, glass flew everywhere coupled with the blood of wounded staff.
Moussallem was just locking the door of the studio when the explosions happened. ‘The key broke in half,’ he remembers. He and a colleague were immediately blown through the glass and through the wall into the store next door. They quickly ran out of the shop, past the dead and the injured, covered in blood and trying to find refuge. ‘At first we thought there was a bomb in our space, but then we walked out and saw that the whole street was destroyed.
Raffoul rushed back to save their archive, their key to being able to rebuild. The building where their studio is located is a historic structure, and while it can be fixed, the risk of something falling on it and damaging it again is high. While Moussallem and Raffoul aim to repair it, they are presently planning to invest more in their Milan space., whose boutique and studio in Gemmayze were completely destroyed.
‘We have always been resilient enough to be able to keep rebuilding, but now I am offended when people call us Lebanese resilient,’ said Mohamed Maktabi, the company’s general manager. ‘The phoenix rising from the ashes — that’s what we always have been, but this time is different.
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