A designer working on a Palm Jumeirah villa once brought a client into the Lawhat showroom with a single instruction from the brief: "something that isn't wood, isn't marble, and...
A fit-out manager on a DIFC hotel bar front once had two quotes on the table: six weeks of setting, grouting and curing from a specialist mosaic tiler, or a...
A contractor on a Business Bay fit-out once had two samples on the same table: a narrow, evenly ribbed board and a softer, rounded fluted one. The client had said...
Walk into a well-finished majlis in Emirates Hills and run a hand along the wall behind the seating. If it gives slightly, soft, padded, warm to the touch rather than...
On plenty of Dubai fit-out sites the panels are perfect, the colour is right, the joints are tight, and the wall still looks unfinished. The reason is usually the same....
A lot of wall projects in Dubai begin with something loud. A book-matched marble feature wall spotted on a hotel reel or a deep fluted oak panel behind a four-poster...
