Limited liabilities company.

Founded in Beirut,1979, after a project initiated by the Social Movement a Lebanese non governemental  organization and supported by private donors in order to  preserve the Lebanese heritage and to help maintaining traditional methods of work.

To fulfill these goals, the following areas of activities were set:
> Promoting the creative work of young craftsmen and women
> Organizing sales of handicraft products in different shops in Lebanon and abroad
> Contributing to the creation of new jobs in rural and urban areas
> Supporting initiatives of workers in creating their own workshops
> Using the profit made by the commercial activities for the purpose of promoting Lebanese handicrafts and/or financing development projects of the Mouvement Social
> In order to reach  these targets, L’artisan du Liban opened its first shop
> In 1985 another shop was opened in the eastern part of the divided city of Beirut.
>> Later a third shop  was opened in Tripoli in 1990

Now more than 800 men and women,from various parts of Lebanon work with l’artisan du liban.

Design and production

Striking a balance between design and mass production is a daily challenge.
> A balance needs to be found between preserving cultural heritage and producing marketable goods
> A balance needs to be found between tradition, esthetics and usability of products
> A balance needs to be found between the  high cost of hand-made products and the importance of confronting competition  and  forgery in the market.
> A balance needs to be found between innovation and keeping the tradition
> A balance needs to be found between rarely available material and ensuring mass production

This is a difficult task wich needs to be constantly redefined. In order to meet the challenge a fifted and well organized team has been constituted with great success

L’artisan du liban France

L’artisan du liban (l.t.d.) has setteled at 30, Rue de Varenne in the seventh department in Paris on December 1999.
This company came from a head-office company in Beirut-Lebanon and have been created to help in marketing the lebanese handicrafts production in France and in Europe.

The Lebanese company had participate in the Lebanese  exhibition organized by the "Institut du Monde Arabe" in Paris in 1998-1999 displaying and selling Lebanese handicrafts production.

These crafts had  been  designed by artists and creators taking into consideration a modern style and the functionality of the object. After the success of this experience,  the decision was taken to open a french company with a team of professonials  lebanese settled in Paris. This location in rue de Varenne is an extension of the project initiated in 1979 during the war by the "Mouvement Social" a Lebanese non-governemental organisation