Italian Dining
Fine dining restaurant interior design — Al Maryah.
A 90-cover fine dining restaurant interior design on Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi — twelve sculpted plaster columns, a coffered ceiling, bespoke chandeliers, and a contemporary read of an Italian dining room.
- Type
- Commercial — Restaurant
- Location
- Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi
- Year
- 2025
- Surface
- 320 m²
- Duration
- 11 months
- Discipline
- Concept · Lighting · FF&E · Acoustic Design
An Italian dining room — not an Italian theme.
The brief was direct: nothing red-and-white, no Tuscan villa motifs. We drew a contemporary tribute — slow, warm, generous — that reads as Italian only when you stop to look.
Twelve plaster columns, a coffered ceiling.
Twelve sculpted plaster columns break the 320 m² floor and rise into a coffered ceiling. The columns are structural; the coffers are decorative. Together they cut the room into intimate four-tops with a clean sightline to the open kitchen.
Chandeliers drawn for the room, caramel mohair banquettes.
Bespoke chandeliers were drawn for the project. Banquette seating is hand-tufted in caramel mohair.
A 90-cover room that reads like 30.
Acoustics, lighting and joinery were tuned together. A full house still reads as quiet conversation.
Acoustics, lighting and joinery were tuned together. A full house still reads as quiet conversation.
