A wellspring of form and function

ENAR

I believed it would be the Soho of Beirut. I was the third or fourth business to open next to the mechanics,” Lina el-Khoury says of the time she scouted around Mar Mkhayel looking for a convenient space to open a design concept store. “I had a vision that this area was going to grow and it did. I took a space, which is not too small, nor too big: I have 135 square meters. I fell in love with the open space,” says Khoury, who personally chose every single element of the store and oversaw its layout and transformation. After years of living in Paris where she obtained a Masters in marketing and sales, Khoury decided to open a concept store for furniture and home design objects in Beirut named Blak & Co. It opened its doors in December 2010, with the aim of transforming Middle Eastern homes with