House of Today is a non-profit organization committed to cultivating a sustainable design ecosystem in Lebanon that transcends international borders. For over a decade, the organization’s overarching aim is to strengthen dialogues in the design world, expanding the reach of contemporary Lebanese designers and their creative processes, through mentoring, educating, curating collections and nurturing connections.
Exhibitions
Low Tide | Shaha Raphael
12-27 July 2025 - Saint-Tropez
House of Today presents Low Tide, a new body of work by Lebanese architect and designer Shaha Raphael.
Held from 12 to 27 July 2025 at the historic Place des Lices in the heart of Saint-Tropez, the exhibition—curated by Cherine Magrabi and scenographed by Simon Basquin—draws on the ocean as a force that carves, polishes, and erases.
Through this lens, Raphael transforms natural gestures into sculptural forms suspended between past and present, anchored in ancient rhythms yet unmistakably contemporary.
Shop the objects
Claw side tables | Shaha Raphael
Fossil coffee table | Shaha Raphael
Chess Table | Shaha Raphael
Cup | Shaha Raphael
Shell Coffee Cup | Shaha Raphael
The exhibition stems from a shared sensibility between curator Cherine Magrabi and Shaha Raphael: a devotion to craftsmanship and a poetic eye for the overlooked. Seashells, long collected by Shaha for their mysterious geometry, lie at its core. Her work, shaped in the space between nature and human hand, blurs artifact and design. Low Tide celebrates shared geographies—a dialogue between Lebanon and the South of France, where the sea bridges cultural memory, material, and gesture.
Shaha Raphael is an architect and designer based in Beirut. Her practice merges architecture, craft, and geology into sculptural objects, balancing digital precision with artisanal techniques to evoke ritual, texture, and transformation.