Photos: Art and Commerce
At mega-collector Tony Salamé’s newly opened Aïshti Foundation, in Beirut, blue-chip works and designer dresses hang in the same building. Christopher Bagley takes inventory.
Tony Salamé, on the site of his Aïshti Foundation, in Beirut.
The city skyline is in the background.
The Aïshti Foundation close to completion.
Salamé (far right), in one of his warehouses, with Laura Owens’s Untitled, 2013.
Another view of the warehouse.
Also in the warehouse, Xavier Veilhan’s Shark, 2008, awaits unwrapping.
The building under construction and renderings of the completed design. Courtesy of Aishti Foundation.
The building under construction and renderings of the completed design. Courtesy of Aishti Foundation.
The building under construction and renderings of the completed design. Courtesy of Aishti Foundation.
The building under construction and renderings of the completed design. Courtesy of Aishti Foundation.
Massimiliano Gioni, Salamé, David Adjaye, and Jeffrey Deitch, in Salamé’s Paris apartment, in front of, from left, David Salle’s Penobscot, 2011, and Nate Lowman’s Sugar Mama, 2012.
In the living area of Salamé’s Faqra mountain house, with his wife, Elham, and their son Matteo; they are surrounded by, from left, on the wall, Alighiero Boetti’s Ammazzare il Tempo, 1978; on the floor, Wade Guyton’s U Sculpture (v. 10), 2012, and Takashi Murakami’s Jesus, 2009–2011, is at Salamé’s right.
Among other pieces in the living room are Tim Noble and Sue Webster’s Forever, 1996, a sculpture by Urs Fischer, Ix, 2006–08; hanging high on the wall is Marc Quinn’s Iris (We Share Our Chemistry With the Stars) ES200R, 2011, and a Zaha Hadid–designed couch is in the foreground.
Another view of the same living room. paris group portrait sittings editor: mari david; photography assistant: Flavio Starita.
