LEFT: The Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon. RIGHT: The Serhat X LEVANT Constantine Ring.

LEFT: The Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon.
RIGHT: The Serhat X LEVANT Constantine Ring.

The Palmyra Sky Tablecloth.

The Palmyra Sky Tablecloth.

LEFT: LEVANT Palmyra Sky Tablecloth in Tobacco. RIGHT: Ewer with Birds and Animals, 10th century, Nishapur, Iran..

LEFT: LEVANT Palmyra Sky Tablecloth in Tobacco.
RIGHT: Ewer with Birds and Animals, 10th century, Nishapur, Iran..

Sporting Club, Beirut, Lebanon.

Sporting Club, Beirut, Lebanon.

LEFT: The LEVANT Blue Lotus Dessert Plate and Palmyra Sky Napkin. RIGHT: Portrait of `Ali Quli Mirza, I`tizad al-Saltana, 1856, Iran.

LEFT: The LEVANT Blue Lotus Dessert Plate and Palmyra Sky Napkin.
RIGHT: Portrait of `Ali Quli Mirza, I`tizad al-Saltana, 1856, Iran.

Ancient Roman millefiori glass of the Eastern Mediterranean. Documented by Matson Photography Service circa 1930.

Ancient Roman millefiori glass of the Eastern Mediterranean. Documented by Matson Photography Service circa 1930.

LEVANT is an exploration of Eastern Mediterranean design and culture. Defined by the motifs of the ancient world, the legacy of the silk road, and the prevailing aesthetics of the Ottoman Empire, LEVANT embodies a spirit of discovery and the art of Eastern elegance.

/li’vant/‘

Historically referring to the lands on the shores of the Eastern Mediterranean. Stretching from the sea to the Arabian Desert, and from the Taurus mountains in Asia Minor to the Sinai Desert in the south.

Borrowed from the French word lévant ‘rising’ or ‘the rising sun in the east’, originally from the Latin levo ‘to rise’.

First seen in English in 1497, meaning to be spirited away. To set sail for the East.