United Arab Emirates is known for luxury shopping, ultramodern architecture and a lively nightlife scene. We've selected a list of the best interior designers that bring even more glamour and grandeur to this wonderful country with their luxury design projects! DhabiAbuGensler© EMIRATESARABUNITEDFROMDESIGNERSINTERIORBEST
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Armed with a profound understanding of the unique challenges of luxury design within Dubai, 4Space strives to meet them with the unparalleled knowledge and skills of a multi-talented team of professionals. Led by major partners Amjad Hourieh and Firas Alsahin, this firm has become one of the region’s most respected, with more than 15 years of industry experience – in retail, hospitality and commercial spaces, or residential and living spaces.
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Aedas Interiors is an international firm that brings out the best of two different worlds – architecture and interior design. Part of the Aedas Group, Aedas Interiors focuses on offering a comprehensive range of interior design services that go from corporate to residential and hospitality. The firm’s numbers are impressive since it has been awarded several times, been featured in various projects around the world and counts 1,400 creative minds that create world-class design solutions with deep social and cultural understanding of the communities they design for.
ANARCHITECT is a multiple award-winning Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design practice based in Dubai and London that specializes in delivering bespoke projects for design-driven private and corporate clients globally. Their diverse portfolio of built work spans residential, leisure, hospitality, workplace and culture throughout the Middle-East, Europe, Asia and Africa. Founded in 2013, the practice manifests architecture across diverse scales of design with superlative craft, detail and materiality.
Founded by Engineer Eman Orphally in the early 90’s, Al Manzool is an Abu Dhabi based firm is a full-service, medium-sized architectural, planning and interior design company. Al Manzool is a responsive, client-focused firm that provides high quality architectural & interior design services and classy products ranging from fabric to furniture & lighting to its esteemed clients in the corporate, commercial and residential sectors.
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Arco Interiors is a specialist in interior solutions providing full-scope turn-key interior design, and Their close-knit team of designer, architects, and engineers are able to translate client ideas into a successful project that work both aesthetically and functionally. in the 1967 by the visionary late founder Ali Baslaib, the Arabian Company today has more than 40 companies and affiliated organizations. They have received praise and awards for the design and quality of their services, and are proud to be a UAE success story.
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Artizan Interior Design is a firm from Dubai that embodies the true spirit of design excellence. Known for its commercial and hospitality projects, Artizan brings together the research and implementation of technological advancement while meeting the deadlines to deliver an efficient service to a growing global market. This being said, prepare yourself for beautiful ambiances and inspiring settings.
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Founded in 1978 by Dr Muthanna Al-Bayaty, Bayaty Architects has emerged to be a unique multidisciplinary practice. Bayaty Architects is a design and engineering firm for architects and engineers that work to provide and support the development of design projects.
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Belhasa Interiors is a leading, sustainability-principled and versatile interior design studio based in Dubai. Part of one of the largest and most diversified holding groups in the region, Belhasa Interiors has leveraged its vast in-house resources to lead the design and execution of over 50 high-profile residential, commercial and governmental clients and over 200 projects region-wide such as The Chocolate Bar in Mercato Mall, Studio 8 at Dubai Mall Fashion Avenue, Moneykicks headquarters and booths at SoleDXB, the Ministry of Justice Innovation Center and Ras Al Khaimah Police Station.
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Founded by Paul Bishop in 2004, Bishop Design LLC has continuously completed projects spread across the entire MENA region and the world. It is through the studio’s execution of well-planned design solutions, extensive expertise of product knowledge and costs along with the dedicated coordination and supervision, that their portfolio holds hundreds of successfully executed worldwide projects.
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Group is a leading consultancy firm, inaugurated in the Middle East and holding multi-disciplined Architectural Design, Interior Design and Engineering Design consultancy competencies, that delivers experience and innovation to partners and customers. HAUSBLUE GROUP
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Caspaiou Design & Interiors’ philosophy is to create a minimalistic, earthy, and understated atmosphere of luxury, rather than follow easy trends. As a contemporary interior design studio, they deliver distinguished concepts that are modern yet timeless in their appeal.
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Bond first entered the market through work with 5-star hotels, exclusive club houses and restaurants. Many of these projects have stood the test of time for more than 20 years. The ability to meet budget and program whilst keeping to the original design integrity, helps to maintain the success in the hospitality sector.
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Bespoke design products and furnishings are what make an interior design project unique. This is what Cherwell, a highly-active company in the design district of Dubai, does best. Its design team specializes in designing the spaces and creating custom-made furnishings for residential contexts. Cherwell makes bespoke furniture for every room of the home or office, but they are renowned for their beautiful kitchens, dressing rooms and specialist joinery.
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Depa Group delivers hospitality, commercial (offices and retail), social infrastructure, economic infrastructure, yachts and marine, high-rise and low-rise residential, and aircraft projects in selected countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. Depa has proudly set the standards of excellence in interior implementation, as evidenced by the delivery of the most iconic projects in the Middle East, Asia, and other regions.
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Dewan Architects + Engineers has been at the forefront of the Middle East’s booming architectural and engineering design sector for almost three decades. Its founder and current Chairman and Managing Director, Mohamed Al Assam, established the inaugural Dewan office in Abu Dhabi in 1984 and successfully completed Dewan’s first high-rise commercial project, Baniyas Tower, in 1988, which cemented Dewan’s presence as a major player in the regional architectural scene.
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DZ Design provides interior design in Dubai and the wider MENA region. Whether it’s a luxury villa, mid-size hotel or office project, this interior design firm can help! Initially established in 2014 by Dina Murali and Zain Belgami, they started life as a small architectural and interior design studio with just the two of them working across their dining table.
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Emaar Properties is one of the world’s most valuable and admired real estate development companies. With proven competencies in properties, shopping malls & retail, and hospitality & leisure, Emaar shapes new lifestyles with a focus on design excellence, building quality, and timely delivery.
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Falcon Interior Decoration is a leading Interior Design and Fit-out Contracting company based in Dubai with an exceptional reputation for providing innovative, quality and extraordinary designs and services across all interior design and fit-out solutions such as commercial, hospitality, residential and joinery. They provide complete turnkey solutions providing hassle-free services to clients from planning and designing to project execution and authority approvals. They can handle every single aspect of any interior fit-out project so that you don’t need to run around to find different materials or suppliers of various products you want in your project.
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FIVE Holdings, a Dubai-based real estate group, offers a wide range of services across four key verticals – development, hospitality, restructuring and investment – designed to leverage the different cycles of the real estate industry.
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Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 50 locations across Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the Americas. Founded in 1965, the firm serves more than 3,500 active clients in virtually every industry. Guided by determined optimism, we believe the power of design can spark positive change and create a future that promotes equity, resilience, and wellbeing for everyone.
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Since its incorporation in 1998, Havelock One Interiors has become one of the most renowned turnkey fit-out contractors and manufacturers of high-quality joinery, decorative metal works and sophisticated shop-fittings in the Middle East.
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HBA, or Hirsch Bedner and Associates, is one of the leading design firms in the luxury hospitality industry. They create the signature looks of today’s luxury brands, independent contemporary boutique hotels, urban resort spas, world-class residences, restaurants and casinos. HBA’s international presence, depth of experience and detailed industry knowledge enables its designers to identify interior design trends at their source, make definitive predictions about new directions and innovations, and influenced sign standards at a global level. They are located across the globe, which includes the exciting grounds of Dubai.
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Upon completion of his Bachelor’s Degree in Film at Emerson College in Boston, Laith Abdelhadi embarked upon his journey to pursue his passion for interior design projects by working in advertising and set design. Laith mastered a wide range of interior design styles and genres, with a refined balance and juxtaposition of seamlessly combining the old and the new with an edited eye, yet always creating refined and inviting interior design projects.
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Justin Wells is a registered architect with in excess of 20 years of experience in award-winning projects across all sectors of architecture and interior design in the Middle East, South-East Asia and Australia. His efforts in building relationships with clients, authorities and professional colleagues over 20 years, have ensured that he has been able to draw upon a vast diversity of Architectural and ID typologies for his career to date. His penchant for Leisure Architecture, Hotels, F&B, Residential and Interior Design has seen expansive travel over a lifetime to provide an understanding of global trends and retrospective influences.
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Key to their success is the manner in which our architects and interior designers not only work alongside each other but also partner closely with their clients to fully embrace their vision.
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Luxury Antonovich Design is a luxury interior design and interior architecture studio in Dubai. Using brilliant taste and a touch of luxury, they are experts in interior fit-out works, joinery, furniture and furnishing, and provide turnkey projects to prime residential, commercial sectors, palaces and high-profile residences.
LW has established a worldwide presence in recent years, with a large number of impressive, award-winning projects coming out of our offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, São Paulo, and Denmark.
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Interior design has been a vocation rather than a career for award-winning lead creative director Nikki Bisiker. Passionate and self-taught, by her twenties she was already designing a substantial restaurant project in Britain, managing the complexities of its historical status. As an international career took off, projects spanned the globe, from Monaco super yachts to a grand Emirati palace. Current work remains as far-flung, unfolding in many diverse locations, from London, Austria and Russia, to Uganda, Dubai and the Caribbean. DESIGNINTERIORBISIKER
Nest Interior Decor believes the purpose of our work is to make spaces more effective, efficient and satisfying for those that occupy them.
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INTERIORSNOMAD35 36 Pallavi Dean is one of the UAE’s most promising interior designers. As an Associate with Godwin Austen Johnson in Dubai, she’s has worked on a range of high-profile commercial and hospitality projects across the region. Her work was recognized in 2010 when she won the CID Middle East Young Interior Designer of the Year Award. Pallavi is an active member of the UAE design community, writing for industry publications, organizing events and mentoring students.
NOMAD Interiors L.L.C was established in UAE on 2010 by Imad Fandi Azzam, a veteran in Projects Design, Execution and Management with more than 14 years of extensive and solid experience in Projects Development and Management of luxurious and Commercial, Residential, Retail, Hotels and High-rise Towers.
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Leading the creative design direction and managing the design process at Perkins + Will, Diane Thorsen remains the creative force behind the studio’s Dubai office, which she established in 2010 together with Steven Charlton. Her designs for the international workplace, hospitality and mixed-use developments, display attention to detail, a love of local art and quality of craftsmanship. Her award-winning work and design approach is informed by sustainability, holistic, innovative project delivery and user-centric design and research.
Design has the power to inspire joy, uplift lives, and strengthen the spirit of community. Company goal is to design places that make a positive difference in the world. That’s why people are at the heart of everything.
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Studio International is a new design consultancy formulated by individuals who have accumulated a significant body of experience globally across a comprehensive range of design disciplines. Their combined knowledge has enabled the world’s leading hoteliers, corporate businesses, transport operators, retailers and principle commercial developers to deliver unique and valuable experiences to their customers.
Born in Portugal, Sneha Divias holds a Master Degree in Architecture from the Lusiada University of Porto and specialized in Interior Design at New York University. Having worked on projects globally with renowned architecture and design consultants in Lisbon and Dubai prior to founding the Atelier, Sneha Divias helms the firm with true entrepreneurial vision. Within a short span of branching out on her own, Divias has quickly established herself as a designer with one of the most diverse portfolios of built projects.
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The award-winning VSHD Design studio was founded by interior architect and managing director Rania Hamed. VSHD Design has carried out projects all over the world from Europe to the United States, as well as in the Middle East. In her elegant and refined interiors, the designer brings together contemporary design and resolutely classic and minimalist contexts. DESIGN
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At Zen Interiors, they believe that clients deserve the smartest solutions. When it comes to creating stunning spaces, they offer an unbeatable combination of flexibility, durability and affordability. They are passionate about superior products and professional services and aim to deliver perfect results – each time, and for every client. Just as they cater to specific styles, tastes, budgets and deadlines, you can count on their expertise and experience at all stages, from concept to creation and completion.
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Architecture and interior design have never been far from each other and, with XBD Collective, that bond gets even stronger. XBD Collective is a multi-disciplinary organization that provides unique solutions for residential, commercial and hospitality projects with an unmistakable, exclusive touch. Brought to you by Ellen Søhoel, Lee Nellis and a wonderful team of experienced professionals, this firm makes it beautiful both in and outdoors.
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