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Majlis Hall
A long reception hall in white marble, blue and brass.
Residential
Private Residence, Al Awir
Location
Al Awir, Dubai, UAE
Type
Private Residence
Lead Architect
Ramzi El Jizi / Darine Jabeili
Photography
Alex Jeffries
The idea
White stone, deep blue and gold.
Set in Al Awir, this private residence receives its guests in a long, formal hall. White veined marble runs across the floor and up the walls, framed by a continuous brass band. Sofas in taupe leather and deep blue upholstery line the room on a blue rug, under clusters of glass and brass chandeliers.
Brass is used as an ornament throughout: gilded lattice screens, mirrored frames, and backlit star-pattern panels set into the pilasters. A dining room with a long marble-topped table, a smaller sitting room in warm grey, and a washroom of grey stone with brass vessel basins complete the reception rooms.
Material palette
White veined marble
Dining room wall
Backlit star screen
Pilaster
Blue tufted upholstery
Majlis ottoman
Brass vessel basin
Washroom
About the project
Marble, brass and a sequence of rooms
Guests enter the majlis hall first, the largest and most formal room, arranged for receiving visitors along its length. From there the dining room opens, centred on its long table, and a smaller sitting room follows in warmer tones, more intimate in scale. The details gather towards the end of the sequence: screens glowing in the pilasters, and the washroom with its basins set on stone.
White veined marble covers the dining room wall as well as the hall, so the reception rooms share one continuous stone. The star screens, lit from behind, turn the pilasters into sources of soft, patterned light. Blue tufted upholstery on the ottomans adds depth and comfort against the pale marble. In the washroom, brass vessel basins carry the gold of the hall into a smaller room. This residence is in Al Awir, Dubai.
In this Al Awir residence, the reception rooms are designed as a formal suite in their own right. Visitors are received in the long hall, move to the dining room for a meal and to the smaller sitting room for quieter talk, so guests can be looked after from arrival to departure within one suite of rooms. One continuous marble runs through the sequence, so the rooms read as a single, generous welcome, while blue upholstery and warm grey bring comfort to long gatherings. The backlit star screens give light that is soft and patterned rather than bright, suited to evening visits. IAIA brings this together through its interior architecture.
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