Oriental Lifestyle

Oriental Lifestyle will take you on a journey that shows and tells multiple and astonishing universes captured by a poetic eye.

Like an enchanter, Guillaume de Laubier gives voice to the ochre of the desert and highlights the splendours and wonders of palaces and residences, rich in ancestral know-how.

We discover the beautiful diversity of the Orient-Occident alliance, which has given birth to an innovative and colourful style in decoration. We stop in front of the skyscrapers, museums and modern villas that are revolutionising architecture and design in the Arab world. A book that revisits the diversity of the art of living, architecture and design in the East today, from Egypt to Tunisia, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, but also Mauritania and Morocco.

Désirée Sadek is a writer-journalist and author of numerous books, including “Le Cèdre du liban”, which won the prix des sciences morales et politiques. She is the founder of byzance magazine, a gateway for decoration and lifestyle between the orient and the occident. She launched and is publishing the magazine Elle Décoration in the middle east.

Guillaume de Laubier is a photographer specialising in lifestyle, Style and architecture. He captures better than anyone the singularity of charming and heritage places and bears witness to the worlds of artists and designers. His work, regularly published by numerous international magazines, has also been the subject of some thirty books with prestigious publishers in france and abroad.