The Hangar Exhibition
Local Industries was founded in 2011 by Palestinian architects Elias and Yousef Anastas. Local Industries provides highly functional furniture crafted by local artisans. In doing so, Local Industries aims to reassert the value of Palestinian labor without freezing it in a traditional or obsolete role.
Elias and Yousef’s conception and production of furniture happens through an intensive back-and-forth process, the result of which is a new type of object, adapted both to local means of production and to modern work and living spaces, which require high standards of functionality and aesthetics.
Local Industries hopes to bring a new impulse to dying crafts and industries while offering a type of furniture which is inscribed within a longstanding history of quality: to create objects which are simple and yet remarkably bold.