Nada Zeineh

Architect by training, Nada Zeineh signed several projects in Lebanon among which the Soap Museum in Saida and the Museum of the American University of Beirut. In parallel, since 1987, she designed and executed jewelry in various materials like terracotta gilded with gold leaf, or threads and plates of brass weaved, twisted, hammered and dipped in gold.
In 2004 she opened her showroom, created her label Nounzein and dedicated herself exclusively to jewellery and to small sculptures like mobiles, stabiles or small flower tables.  For her, every piece is a project in itself, a project born from a dream, a souvenir, a «collective memory».
Her work is inspired by abstract geometric forms inherent to her training as architect, and by the culture of the Middle East. The Greco-roman or the Islamic civilisations, as well as the fauna , the flora or the ethnic jewellery of the region are the different elements of this memory that she reinterprets in order to create simple, light, playful and timeless pieces.