Claude Missir
A native of Beirut, designer Claude Missir hails from a multicultural Lebanese-French family. Missir enrolled at the ALBA (Académie Libanaise Des Beaux-Arts) and obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design in 1993. The elegant simplicity of his work is marked by sophisticated minimalism and is enriched by strokes of intuitive neutral palettes. Missir finds inspiration in the work of French modernist designers and architects of the 1930s. A visual interlocutor, his designs look to natural materials and finishes and emphasize clean symmetries and surfaces.
“The history of styles inspires me; I like to rewrite them my way, with a twist of minimalism and fancy.”
His interior design work extends to both public and private projects, including Parisian residences in Avenue Montaigne, Avenue du Président Wilson and Champs de Mars as wel as The Kempinski Hotel in Aqaba, Jordan and a selection of commissions in the UK, Switzerland, the Middle East and Africa. Missir’s talents have also been sought after for commissions to design yacht interiors, including work on the Adora, a 64-meter vessel for Benetti and the Maraya, a 54-meter yacht for CRN
