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Haitham Abdelrehim

Interior Design—04 / 11

B168

District One, Dubai, UAE/Villa interiors/2023 — 2024/Eleven Plus Decoration Design

A large family villa interior held together by three materials — travertine-toned stone, dark timber and bronze — across rooms of very different scale.

01Repeated stone and timber bays hold the long interior sequence together.
Location
District One, Dubai, UAE
Year
2023 — 2024
Sector
Residential
Scope
Concept to IFC
Status
Completed

My contribution

My role
Senior Designer — design lead
Responsibility
Concept to IFC

Key contributions

  • Led the interiors from concept through IFC
  • Set the material palette and joinery language
  • Directed FF&E
  • Coordinated suppliers and the technical package

The project

The plan gives its best frontage to the garden, and the interior keeps that view in play throughout: the double-height living room glazed to the lawn, the family sitting room beyond it, the dining room turned so the table sits parallel to the glass.

Scale is the difficulty in a house like this, and it is handled by repeating a small palette at different weights. Stone runs from the floors up onto full-height wall panels; dark timber forms the tall joinery bays and screens that give the large rooms their rhythm; bronze appears only in edges, frames and light fittings. Seating is kept low and largely curved, so the furniture softens rooms the architecture keeps rectilinear, and the bedrooms take the same materials at a quieter volume.

02Open joinery filters the garden view while giving the seating area a defined backdrop.
03A compact furniture group makes the double-height room comfortable at the scale of conversation.
04The garden-facing glass lends depth to the living room beyond its enclosed footprint.
05A lower ceiling distinguishes the family sitting area without interrupting its garden frontage.
06The media wall separates uses while retaining visual connections around its edges.
07Dining takes the glazed frontage, placing the table alongside the garden rather than behind another room.
08Curved seating softens the bedroom's rectilinear arrangement of panels and joinery.
09The sitting corner gives the bedroom a second use beyond sleeping.
10Storage, display and the screen are composed as one wall to keep the floor space open.

“A small palette, repeated at different weights.”

11Full-height cabinetry concentrates storage along the dressing room's perimeter.
12Tall stone panels give the bed a defined place within the room's broad frontage.
13A low bed and open corner keep the garden in view from within the suite.
14The bathroom repeats the bedroom's panel rhythm at a smaller, more enclosed scale.

Colophon

Location
District One, Dubai, UAE
Year
2023 — 2024
Sector
Residential
Typology
Villa interiors
Scope
Concept to IFC
Status
Completed
Role
Senior Designer — design lead