*Let Us Introduce You to Our New ‘Creatives at Home’ Issue* Having lived in the UAE for 25 years, Nadine Kanso is finally home – and it feels as though she has stepped back into her childhood where summers were spent with her grandparents by Lebanon’s sun-kissed coastline. No, the acclaimed artist and founder of jewellery house, Bil Arabi, hasn’t moved back to Beirut. She’s just carved herself a pocket of Levantine charm in Dubai’s chic Port de La Mer district. “The big non-negotiable I had was that I wanted to be by the sea,” says Kanso, “because it brings back happy memories of being surrounded by family.” She enlisted fellow Lebanese creative, the AD100 designer Thomas Trad, to fashion a contemporary take on the traditional Beiruti villas she grew up in. Step inside this nostalgic Dubai home in our June-July ‘25 cover story at the link: https://t.ly/pp4Lz