The idea for Warchée emerged directly from Anastasia Elrouss’s own construction sites, where she observed the systemic exclusion of women from skilled trades. Determined to address this gap, she founded Warchée not only as a training initiative but as a social enterprise aimed at achieving financial autonomy while empowering women through creative woodworking. Designed to pass on craftsmanship from one generation to the next, Warchée equips women with both traditional and digital fabrication skills, positioning them as active agents in the industry. Beyond empowerment, the initiative seeks to reshape the furniture market by offering products that are well-designed, high-quality, affordable, and modular, proving that social impact and design excellence can go hand in hand.
What began in 2017 as a mobile workshop with just five women has grown into a thriving social enterprise that, by 2025, has trained over 150 women through fixed workshops in Beirut, Tripoli, and Marseille. Each product created is marked by butterfly joints, a distinctive signature for the Wé Brand.
