Lebanese designer Donna Maria Feghali has created the Eshrin collection of furniture to honor 2020, a pivotal year which will go down in history as a shift in our society. During that year, we faced challenges and was a creative change which she described as "really intense personal journey.
Looking back, I realized it totally reflected in my creative work and in this collection, which is way different from anything I’ve ever done before." The Paris-based studio has dedicated its design to that era and it is dubbed after the Arabic word for 'twenty.' The Eshrin collection explores contrasts in a bold and fluid way through an understated form. The collection was produced in Egypt with Nineteen Furniture.
Pivotal Year-Honoring Furniture
Donna Maria Feghali Designs the Eshrin Collection of Furniture
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