1980
The beginning
Premium Home started as a small project with one aim: bring well-made, good-looking furniture to homes in Lebanon, at a price a family could actually justify.
The workshop · Kherbet Kanafar
Forty-six years of the same craft.
One workshop in Kherbet Kanafar. The material changed, the tools got better, the hands stayed the same.
1981
The first collection
After a year of drawing, testing and re-cutting, the first full collection left the workshop. The pieces set the rule we still work to: build it so it outlasts the room it was made for.
2010
Barrels, and beyond the house
Working next to the Bekaa's wineries put spent oak casks within reach. We started cutting them into bars, chairs and tables, and the work moved outward into tasting rooms, terraces and resorts.
How a cask becomes furniture
Four cuts,in order.
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Strip and sort
The cask comes in stained and swollen. Hoops come off, staves are numbered so they go back in the order the cooper set them, and anything split is put aside.
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Decide the cut
Where the barrel is opened decides what it becomes. A vertical door makes a bar cabinet; a horizontal halving makes a chair or a planter. This is the only irreversible step.
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Build the inside
Shelves are cut on the barrel's own curve, not squared off. Racks, glass rails, hinges and upholstery frames are fitted to the individual cask, because no two are the same size.
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Finish for its life
Indoors: sanded back, oiled, waxed. Outdoors: sealed against Bekaa summers and winter damp. The wine stain inside the staves is left visible. It's the reason the piece looks the way it does.
Not renders. Pieces already out in the world.
Photographed where they ended up: a rooftop, a stone wall, a corner fitted out from floor to ceiling.
Now
Still one workshop.
Everything is still made in Kherbet Kanafar, by the same hands, to order. If you want to see the pieces in person, call first and we'll have them out.
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