ZILLظل

Interior design · Dubai

We design
with shadow.

Before glass towers, this coast cooled its rooms with lattice and shade. We still do. Interiors drawn from mashrabiya light, honest materials, and air that moves.

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Three rooms, three shadows

Courtyard Majlis

Jumeirah villa · 140 m²

The brief asked for a formal majlis. We gave it a roofless heart — seating wraps a small open court, and a carved screen throws its pattern across the floor from noon until the first call to prayer.

  • Lime plaster
  • Smoked oak
  • Patinated brass

Penthouse in Layers

DIFC · 380 m²

Forty floors up, the sun is an enemy until you filter it. Three sliding screens turn one glass wall into a sundial — the owner tells time by where the pattern falls on the travertine.

  • Travertine
  • Walnut screens
  • Raw linen

Café Around a Palm

Al Quoz · 95 m²

The lot had one date palm and the client wanted it gone. We wrapped the room around it instead — the canopy is the ceiling fixture, and every table sits in its moving shade.

  • Rammed earth
  • Cane weave
  • Zellige

Shade is a material

We start every project with the sun path, not the mood board. Where light enters decides where people sit; where people sit decides everything else.

Our drawings are bilingual because our clients are. Every plan, schedule, and site note leaves the studio in Arabic and English — nothing is lost between the contractor and the owner.

We specify materials that age in this climate — lime, brass, earth, cane. Things that weather into character instead of out of warranty.

Bring us your light.

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