Commercial & residential — Dubai & Abu Dhabi

Workplaces and homes designed to elevate everyday life.

We bring you something this city rarely offers: one studio that draws it, builds it and furnishes it. Offices, showrooms, villas and sea-facing apartments across the UAE — carried from the first sketch to the day the doors open, wherever in the world you happen to be that month.

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Panelled chairman's office with a glazed filing library, brass chandelier and the Dubai skyline framed in the window. Entrance hall with a lacquered indigo ceiling, brass portal and river-stone mosaic floor at Atlantis The Royal.
Chairman's office, Dubai · Atlantis The Royal, Dubai

Commercial

Workplaces held to the standard of a private house.

Executive floors, boardrooms, showrooms and studios — drawn and delivered by the team that does our residences. A harder programme, with approvals, contractors and a landlord's handover date, and the same refusal to let the drawing get lost on site.

Sea-facing executive office with full-height lit oak library, timber-clad ceiling and a sculptural desk.
Executive suiteCorner office, sea elevation · Full-height lit library, timber ceiling, one sculptural desk
Solid oak meeting table with pale upholstered chairs in a plaster-walled room.
Meeting roomPlaster, oak and daylight · Built for the conversation, not the projector
Curved glass meeting room with tan chairs, exposed black services overhead and a banquette breakout beyond.
Boardroom & breakoutCurved glazed meeting room · Banquette seating for the conversations that happen between meetings
Staff pantry with oak cabinetry, a dark stone counter and a single open shelf.
Staff pantryOak and dark stone, detailed like a kitchen at home · The room a team uses most

Four kinds of commercial brief we take on.

We work at the scale where the client is still in the room — a floor, a townhouse, a flagship unit rather than a tower. That is where the detailing survives.

Showroom with arched windows, lime plaster walls, boucle chairs and tall leaning mirrors. Showroom seating under a fringed fibre chandelier, seen from above.

Golden Mile 2

Palm Jumeirah — design studio & showroom

Two floors of a townhouse turned into a working office: desks, material library and pantry upstairs, a showroom below where clients sit with the samples in their hands rather than on a screen. Wabi-sabi in the literal sense — lime plaster, raw oak, linen, nothing that hides its wear. We wrote the concept, ran the construction and bought every piece in it.

ScopeConcept, construction supervision, full procurement
Area165 m², two floors
ProgrammeWork floor, material library, showroom, pantry
CharacterQuiet enough to think in, finished enough to sell in
Lime plaster Raw oak Natural fibre

Fit-out, handled end to end

  • Authority & landlord approvals
  • Contractor tender and award
  • MEP coordination
  • Bespoke joinery
  • FF&E procurement and install
  • Snagging and handover

Six houses, six ways of living.

Every brief starts with the same question — how does this family actually move through a day? The plan follows the answer, and the palette follows the plan.

Open-plan living room with a striped indigo rug, sculptural white sofas and pale oak shelving. Dining room with an oak table and a deep teal arched display cabinet.

Chorisia Villa

Al Barari, Dubai

A family of five bought a house in the greenest community in Dubai and asked us to make it theirs. The reference was the Cyclades — whitewash, sailcloth, indigo, hard sun — carried through three floors, with a blue playroom for the children between the bedrooms.

ScopeInteriors, joinery, furniture, styling
Area600 m², three floors
RoomsFive bedrooms, playroom, staff quarters
PublishedSalon Interior, cover story
Whitewash Aegean Bleached oak
Dining and living area with a glass chandelier, lacquered blue feature wall and velvet chairs. Gilded portal framing an indigo ceiling set with brass leaves.

Atlantis The Royal

Palm Jumeirah, Dubai

The brief was the building's own theatre crossed with a Middle Eastern fairy tale. We drew the apartment as a private palace garden: a mosaic floor that runs like water from the entrance, courtyards of lapis and brass, and a ceiling of gilded leaves above the seating.

ScopeConcept, detailing, procurement
Area350 m² apartment
RoomsTwo en-suite bedrooms, pantry, staff room
StatusUnder construction
Lapis Antique brass Walnut
Bright living room with an olive tree, white slatted screen and a green glass coffee table. Dining table with turquoise upholstered chairs under hand-blown glass pendants, facing the marina.

Bulgari Residences

Jumeirah Bay Island, Dubai

A holiday home for a European family who wanted to walk in and feel the season change. The whole apartment is built on one colour — turquoise at the marina windows, powder blue in the bedrooms, indigo where the light drops — with oak floors and a single olive tree.

ScopeInteriors, art and furniture curation
Area240 m² apartment
RoomsThree en-suite bedrooms, terrace, staff quarters
PublishedAD Middle East
Turquoise Deep indigo Pale oak
Dining area in oatmeal and raw plaster with a long oak table and boucle chairs. Child's room with a linen canopy bed and dusty pink curtains.

Meadows 4 Villa

The Meadows, Dubai

Two parents, two small children, a live-in maid and a nanny — six people who all needed somewhere to be alone. We zoned the house before choosing a single material. The language is Japandi: straight lines, light surfaces, the calm the family goes to Tulum and Ibiza to find.

ScopeSpace planning, interiors, procurement
Area460 m² villa
RoomsFour bedrooms, playroom, pool and barbecue garden
PublishedSalon Interior
Raw plaster Oat linen Smoked oak
Dining table beside floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the white sand of Saadiyat beach.

Mamsha Al Saadiyat

Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Bought second-hand and stripped back to the slab. New floors, new bathrooms, a new kitchen and a lighting plan that follows the sea light through the day. The palette was taken from the beach outside the window and kept deliberately quiet, so the art could speak.

ScopeFull renovation, interiors, art
Area230 m² apartment
RoomsThree en-suite bedrooms, kitchen, laundry, staff room
PublishedAD Middle East
Shell Sea grey Travertine
Formal living room with rose curtains, a linen sectional and a blue velvet bench. Painting above a pair of armchairs upholstered in antique suzani textile.

District One Villa

Mohammed Bin Rashid City, Dubai

The client is a painter, a collector of antiques and the mother of three. Rather than quieten any of that, we built rooms to hold it: a hanging plan for the paintings, suzani on the chairs, a carved cabinet given a wall of its own, and colour used at full strength.

ScopeInteriors, collection and antique integration
Area700 m² villa
RoomsFive bedrooms, two kitchens, pool garden
PublishedSalon Interior
Dust rose Peacock Suzani red

The full residential index.

Twelve recent private homes across Dubai and Abu Dhabi, from a 120 m² pied-à-terre finished in eight weeks to a 700 m² family villa. Commercial projects are listed separately.

Residential projects, UAE — ordered by area
ProjectLocationTypeArea
District One VillaMBR City, DubaiVilla, artist's home700 m²
Chorisia VillaAl Barari, DubaiVilla, three floors600 m²
Mediterranean VillaDistrict One, DubaiVilla, family of three500 m²
Meadows 4 VillaThe Meadows, DubaiVilla, Japandi460 m²
The 8 ResidencesPalm Jumeirah, DubaiPenthouse400 m²
Atlantis The RoyalPalm Jumeirah, DubaiApartment350 m²
Bulgari ResidencesJumeirah Bay Island, DubaiApartment, holiday home240 m²
Bluewaters ResidencesBluewaters Island, DubaiApartment, home office240 m²
Mamsha Al SaadiyatSaadiyat Island, Abu DhabiApartment, renovation230 m²
One JBRDubai Marina, DubaiApartment, one-month fit-out200 m²
Sunrise Bay 2Emaar Beachfront, DubaiApartment, full strip-out130 m²
St Regis ResidencesPalm Jumeirah, DubaiApartment, 42nd floor120 m²

Also from the index

Three apartments where the work was structural as much as decorative — walls moved, floors replaced, storage built in.

Living room with a deep green sofa, wood-panelled wall and sea view at Emaar Beachfront.
Sunrise Bay 2Emaar Beachfront · 130 m² · Walls moved, wardrobes and hallway storage rebuilt
Calm living room in beige and milky white with fluted joinery and marble.
Bluewaters ResidencesBluewaters Island · 240 m² · Four bedrooms and a therapist's home office
Bathroom clad in green-veined marble with a floating vanity and backlit mirror.
One JBRDubai Marina · 200 m² · Complete fit-out delivered in one month
The KN Living studio: arched windows, plaster walls, boucle chairs and tall leaning mirrors.

The studio

One team, from the drawing to the door handle.

We are a small studio in Downtown Dubai with offices in two countries and seven languages between us. Clients — homeowners and business owners alike — usually find us at the point where a plan has to become a building site, so we run the concept, the contractors and the buying ourselves, and one person stays with the project the whole way through.

  • Concept & design

    Space planning, joinery drawings, lighting and material schedules — resolved before anything is ordered.

  • Construction supervision

    We appoint and oversee the contractors, hold the programme, and walk the site so you don't have to.

  • Procurement & styling

    Furniture, textiles, art and the last small objects, sourced and installed — including for clients who are abroad until handover.

Recognition

Magazines photograph the rooms empty. We design them for a Tuesday morning.

Over a hundred features in architectural and design titles, and membership of the Association of Interior Designers and Decorators.

  • Salon Interior — Chorisia Villa, Al BarariCover story
  • Salon Interior — District One VillaCover story
  • Salon Interior — Meadows 4 VillaFeature
  • AD Middle East — Bulgari ResidencesFeature
  • AD Middle East — Mamsha Al SaadiyatFeature
  • Association of Interior Designers and DecoratorsMember

Start a project

Tell us about the space.

A villa, a floor of offices, a showroom, or just an address and a handover date. We come back with how we would approach it, what it takes and what it costs — no two answers are the same.