Laura May Todd, Wallpaper's Milan Editor, based in the city, is a Canadian-born journalist covering design, architecture and style.
Amongst the ancient ports that ring the Mediterranean, the city of Carthage is particularly steeped in history. Now a seaside district of modern Tunis, Tunisia, it was founded in the 9th century BC by Phoenician settlers who travelled across the sea from Tyre, in what is now modern Lebanon, in search of trade. Carthage went on to be among the most prosperous of the Roman age.
It was this history that inspired the newly opened exhibition, 'Carthagisme,' at Lamia Bousnina Gallery in Tunis. 'Carthage was always an important point on the Mediterranean,' explains Milan-based curator Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, who was tapped by Lamia Bousnina Benayed to organise the show. 'It’s been subject to so many different influences and layers of civilisations. The Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Ottomans and even the Crusades. It’s created a very hybrid society.
In developing the exhibition, Bellavance-Lecompte brought together six international designers to interpret Tunisian culture and craft: Palestinian brothers Elias and Yousef Anastas; the Morocco-based French designer Louis Barthélemy; designer Chris Wolston, who lives between New York and Medellin; ceramicist Mary-Lynn Massoud; and Studio Manda founder Georges Mohasseb, both from Beirut.
'There are over 2500 artisans working in Tunisia today,' reflects Bellavance-Lecompte on the exhibition, which both he and Bousnina Benayed hope will open up a dialogue between Tunisia and the rest of the world. 'And each is doing incredible work preserving the country’s traditions.'Laura May Todd, Wallpaper's Milan Editor, based in the city, is a Canadian-born journalist covering design, architecture and style.
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