Architecture, Design, Interiors, Style, Living — a Dubai home journal
The letter D
Objects with a point of view. What to sit on, eat at, and live with — and who in this city can make it for you.
Between Al Quoz and Ras Al Khor sits a workshop economy that can build almost anything. The difference between a commission you keep for decades and one you regret is decided before the saw starts.
Sadu, khoos and carved gypsum survived the concrete decades. Used at the right dose they give a contemporary Dubai interior a memory; used everywhere, they turn it into a lobby.
Developers hand over ceilings, not lighting schemes. A few lamps, disciplined colour temperature and a dimmer or two will do more for an apartment than any single piece of furniture you could buy.
Coastal damp on one side of the glass, refrigerated air on the other: the Gulf asks more of timber than almost anywhere. The right species, details and patience will get a table through decades of it.
The majlis is still the room a household is judged by. Furnishing one now means holding on to hierarchy and hospitality while the silhouettes, fabrics and lighting quietly modernise.
