The Gong bar cabinet has two sliding doors made of handmade palisander wood marquetry revealing three wooden shelves, dimmable lighting fixed behind mirrored back panel. The round cabinet box is painted black inside and outside. One tempered black glass shelf at the bottom of the cabinet, serves as a structural element enhancing the stability of the cabinet and creates additional storage space. The structure of the cabinet is made of fully loaded brass profiles. The cabinet offers spacious storage space for the battles and glasses. The light turns on automatically when the doors open.
Eva Szumilas is Polish-Lebanese designer. She studied architecture at Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland; where she graduated with a Master Degree in Architecture and City Planning in 2002. She has successfully connected her passion and love for design and traveling. Since 2004 she has been living and working in Cyprus, Ireland and Lebanon. She has moved to Beirut in 2010 where she has established her design studio few years later. She has been working as furniture and product designer and as an architect since then. Her work is a poetry of functionality with powerful aesthetics; it is fuelled by her life experiences, background and passions influenced by both Middle Eastern and European cultures. Her furniture collection is back to the essence of design, in the spirit of art decorative where the aim is beauty, aesthetics, purity and elegance. This timeless, pure and discreet design is easy to love and integrates harmoniously in any space. Nobel materials and advance craftsmen techniques are used to manufacture her pieces. Her work has been shown in Paris and London at Pavilion of Art & Design and published in many international magazines: AD France, AD Germany, AD Middle East, Taschen and others.
Born in Poland, Eva Szumilas studied architecture at Technical University of Wroclaw and graduated with a Master’s Degree in Architecture and City Planning in 2002. With time and growing experience, she successfully connected her passion for design with her love of traveling. After staying in Cyprus and Ireland, she moved to Beirut in 2010 and established her design studio only a few years later. Eva now works as a furniture designer, as well as taking on projects as an architect. Her work blends poetry and functionality together, with powerful aesthetics and an eye for comfort. Her art is fueled by her life experiences and her background of both Middle Eastern and European cultures. Her furniture collection is inspired by the spirit of decorative art where the aim is beauty, aesthetics, purity, and most importantly elegance. Noble materials and advanced craftsmanship techniques are used to manufacture her pieces, a timeless, pure and discreet design style that is universally appreciated and enjoyed, and integrates harmoniously in any space.