by way of interior decoration... and returned home licensed in this art. From that day he has climbed the ladder rung by rung... demonstrating an extraordinary capacity for creating what is new and original, and a strange vitality that knows no fatigue: he is forever moving between this office and that hotel, and yonder palace, and this public square... and never once has he disappointed those who value his art.

Camille Munsif is, without doubt, a source of pride for Lebanon in an art that until the recent past remained the preserve of the Franks — French, English, and others. It was therefore a gracious gesture on the part of His Excellency the President of the Republic when he expressed his utmost astonishment and admiration at the refined taste displayed in the market, and asked after the decorating engineer who had made the design and seen to its execution... He was told: he is one of ours, from Lebanon... It was a gracious gesture of His Excellency that he at once conferred on Mr. Munsif the Order of the Cedar in the rank of Knight, in appreciation of a great work that consumed much of his effort, his power of invention, the breadth of his imagination, and his vitality.

One can imagine how beautiful and magnificent the display windows will appear when they are fully fitted out and filled with the goods for which they were designed!

And now let us give a living picture of this market!

With two materials — glass and wood — Camille Munsif was able to create a varied assemblage of lines, shapes, and colors: broad panels of glass; doors of unbreakable "Securit" glass — spreading transparency and light through the air...

One notices the abundant use of "Formica," that famous plastic material with its cheerful colors, for the finishing of tables and desks...

The visitor passes along a row of shops divided by a wide passage. This is the pavilion of silks, that one for jewelry, and that one for shoes of every kind; in this pavilion the fabrics, and over there silverware, woolens,

garments, furs, Oriental sundries, carpets, the handiwork of "Zouk," and perfumes, etc....

And despite the variety of the shops in their forms and the variety of the goods displayed in them, there is a unity of style, to which Camille Munsif held fast, that lends the place an air of assurance and cheerfulness at a high level without equal in the most advanced countries of the world.

Worth mentioning is that this great work was accomplished at the hands of Lebanese and in the workshops of Lebanon.

We congratulate the Lebanese government on adopting this economic project of surpassing importance, which strengthens the publicity for Lebanon among all the peoples of the world; and we congratulate Mr. Camille Munsif on the dazzling success he has achieved, for which he deserved the high decoration.

Below, a shop for men's shoes; above, the office for commercial transactions.

A side of the international market, where the traveler sees the goods as he passes through