Maison Vela
A private residence reimagined around its garden — limestone, oak, and unlacquered brass organised in long, quiet sightlines.
- LocationEmirates Hills, Dubai
- Year2024
- DisciplineFull Interior Design
A consultancy built around the conviction that an interior is not decorated — it is composed. Every project begins with a study of light, proportion, and the texture of daily life within a space.
A private residence reimagined around its garden — limestone, oak, and unlacquered brass organised in long, quiet sightlines.
A penthouse arranged as a single, continuous gesture — pale plaster walls, considered art, and a discreet palette of cream and bronze.
A children's suite composed around a single statement wallpaper — atlas of cloud, flight, and slow-moving creatures, set against quiet white joinery.
RAAB — Interiors is a small consultancy working between residential, hospitality, and atelier-scale commercial spaces. The studio favours natural finishes — limestone, oak, plaster, unlacquered brass — and a palette drawn from the desert, the sea, and the soft hours between them.
Each engagement is led personally, from the first site walk to the final styling.
The complete engagement — from the first walkthrough of an empty shell to the moment the last book is placed on the shelf. RAAB handles space planning, joinery design, lighting, finish specification, furniture sourcing, art curation, soft furnishings, and final styling. You hand over the keys; we hand back a finished home.
Working alongside your architect — or in their place — on the decisions made before decoration begins. Wall placement, window proportions, ceiling treatments, floor levels, sightlines. The studio is engaged early, while a project is still on paper, to ensure the bones of the space serve the life that will be lived inside it.
For clients whose space is already finished but feels unresolved. RAAB curates a considered mix of contemporary, vintage, and bespoke pieces — sourced from European ateliers, design galleries, and private collections — to bring a quiet, collected character to a room. Often a single intervention can transform an interior.
A specialised consulting service for architects, developers, and private clients who want a designer's eye on materials alone. RAAB specifies every surface — limestone, oak, plaster, brass, fabric, leather — to ensure the project reads as a single, coherent palette. The most quietly transformative part of any project, often the most overlooked.