SPREAD’s Latest Installation Brings Peace, Love + Joy to Beirut

ByMyProperty Life 23/12/2025

At this year’s We Design Beirut 2025, visitors stepped into a world shaped by color, memory, and emotion. Designed by Japanese creative studio SPREAD, the latest editions of Much Peace, Love and Joy unfolded across two venues – the Villa Audi Mosaic Museum and Immeuble de l’Union – inviting guests to move through the work as though wandering a living landscape. The installation encouraged a personal experience of joy, imagination, and interconnectedness, allowing each visitor to find their own meaning within the color-filled environment.

Colorful, leaf-shaped pieces are suspended by strings in an abandoned, unfinished room, casting intricate shadows on the concrete floor under dramatic lighting

Photo: Youssef Itani

Colorful paper shapes hang from strings indoors, casting shadows on the wall and ceiling in a dimly lit room with exposed concrete beams

Photo: Youssef Itani

While the goal was to spark happiness through color, SPREAD intentionally left the interpretation open. “While each element is carefully composed, the meaning is left entirely to the viewer,” the designers explain. “People see and feel differently, shaped by their own experiences and memories… within this shared experience, there is a quiet joy that emerges when we encounter color.”

Colorful paper shapes hang from strings indoors,

Photo: Youssef Itani

To build this experience, SPREAD turned to process as much as palette. Using a special letterpress technique, they printed vivid color gradients and then hand-tore each sheet into organic, irregular forms. These pieces were assembled into two configurations: a floating net installation where the colors appear to drift freely through the air, and a series of framed works where the hues seem to hover within their boundaries. Together, the two presentations create a rhythm of lightness and movement, transforming simple color into an immersive, living experience.

Photo: Youssef Itani

Color and happiness are deeply personal, yet universally understood. By inviting visitors to interpret the work through their own memories and emotions, SPREAD created a shared space where individual experiences blended into a collective moment of joy. It was an experience shaped alone, but felt together.

Photo: Youssef Itani

A view through arched doorways shows a bright room with colorful abstract art on the wall and a stone bust on a pedestal in the foreground

Photo: Dia Mrad

Three white folding panels display colorful abstract shapes in a bright room with classical wall art and marble flooring

Photo: Dia Mrad

Photo: Dia Mrad

Three white folding panels display colorful abstract shapes in a bright room with classical wall art and marble flooring

Photo: Dia Mrad

A woman and a man with round glasses and dark clothing pose together against a plain light background

Haruna Yamada and Hirokazu Kobayashi, founders of SPREAD Photo: Ooki Jingu

To learn more about SPREAD and its editions of Much Peace, Love and Joy, visit spread-web.jp.

As the Senior Contributing Editor, Vy Yang is obsessed with discovering ways to live well + with intention through design. She’s probably sharing what she finds over on Instagram stories. You can also find her at vytranyang.com.