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Responding to the client’s needs, Askdeco custom-designed One Oak 5A2’s lighting, which includes embedded PSLab spotlights that illuminate the home’s colorful interior décor and bring it to life.
“Some clients are very enthusiastic about learning, while others, like this client, are well informed about the product and the process required to achieve it,” says Nasr.
She put her expertise in the service of women and children shelters, supporting newcomers and the local Muslim LGBTQ+ community, as well as fundraising for war relief in Lebanon. She graduated with a degree in Social & Behavioral Psychology.
M.S. From paintings by Joan Miró, T.P.Hardisty and Hussein Madi, to Moroso sofas and Nada Debs cabinets, One Oak 5A2 brings color to life through Mediterranean stylings, avant-garde furniture and even pop culture elements that include a living room jukebox.
“This particular client, however, wanted to incorporate many different styles of furniture and accessories from different countries, which results in different themes and feels to each room.”
Diversity in design
Askdeco prides itself in offering clients an unlimited range of design styles, enabling the firm to deliver optimal results for projects individually tailored to a client’s classical, contemporary or modern design preferences.
Between those breathtaking vistas, One Oak 5A2 is a vibrant and colorful space that oozes with life. Nisrine lives between Canada and California where she is working on writing her memoir — Finding My Inner Oasis.
Project: One Oak 5A2
Interior Design: Askdeco
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Year 2019
Photography: Alex Jeffries
With a global portfolio of completed projects including luxurious homes, private yachts and commercial environments, Askdeco, a full-service design firm based in Lebanon, is proud to showcase its One Oak 5A2 residential project in the beating heart of downtown Beirut, a city home to world-renowned fashion designers, art galleries, performing arts venues and trendy bistros and cafés.
“Like all of our projects, One Oak 5A2 was a unique challenge, dictated by the multiple international influences embraced by our client,” says Nisrine Nasr, co-founder and interior designer at Askdeco.
Nisrine was two years old when the multifaceted Lebanese Civil War erupted. After working with the client to adjust tonalities and to devise a strategy for blending the space’s contrasts, Askdeco went to work on converting One Oak 5A2 into the quintessential bachelor pad, highlighted by 400m² of modern, yet eclectic design elements.
“The most important goal is to ensure that the client feels at home in a completed space,” notes Nasr.
For the next two weeks, she waited for a flight to Canada where she finally landed in June 2006.
New Life in Toronto, Canada
Nisrine took an active role amongst her community as soon as she arrived in Toronto. Her father accepted after she took him to their religious leader and they agreed that she would stay with a Muslim family.
Muted white walls and Carrara marble flooring provide the ultimate canvass for allowing each colorful element to stand out on its own artistic merits. Drawing inspiration from the colorful places he’s visited, his vision for One Oak 5A2 was a vibrant mix of worldly influences and décors. While in Bristol and later London, Nisrine got to explore her gender identity, finding community amongst gay and transgender groups.
Ten years in Lebanon
For the next ten years, Nisrine lived in Lebanon where she helped with the family carpet business — an environment that was difficult and enmeshed and led to her experiencing some mental health issues.
Nisrine was nine years old.
After a five-year relationship with a Palestinian woman ended, Nisrine started to explore intimate relationships with men for the first time and came to identify as heterosexual. Her mother died two weeks before she turned 30. “The client adores a world of colours, cultures and textures, so the task at hand was to harmonize all of those influences within a single living space.”
Discerning tastes
The owner, a well-travelled art collector who sells works of art and unique furniture pieces, wanted his new home to reflect that aspect of his life.
Nisrine studied in high school in Geneva. The client initially expressed distaste for existing architectural lighting with fixtures thought to be visual distractions and which lack decorative characteristics. But when the 2006 Lebanon War erupted, she had to leave everything and drove through the bombardments to the Syrian border.
Mediterranean blues and yellows accent the home’s white open kitchen, which connects to an adjacent dining area and lounge area that serves as a warm mingling space.
One Oak 5A2’s contemporary master bedroom opens out to a terrace overlooking the Sea, with floor-to-ceiling mirrored closet doors behind the room’s Cassini bedding to create the illusion of even greater space.