A small studio, since 2007.
Husband-and-wife, Michael and Stanislava — and a team of twenty in d3. The studio designs, draws, builds and dresses the room. We do not sub-contract the part that matters.
Muse was founded in 2007 from a single drawing table in what is now Dubai Design District. Twenty-odd years later the practice has narrowed, not widened: residential luxury and a selective body of commercial work — restaurants, salons, offices — where the craft of fit-out can stay in plain sight.
We are a UAE-licensed contractor; we are also the people who pick the grout colour. The two sides are not separate departments. It is the same team, in the same studio, all the way through to the day the lights come on.
Michael Dudnyk
Michael runs the build side of the practice and most of the client conversations. He has fifteen-plus years on Dubai sites and, by his own admission, an opinion on every contractor in town. He called a Jaddaf barbershop "one of my favourite projects" in Commercial Interior Design.
Stanislava Rudas-Dudnyk
Stanislava leads the design studio. She picks the materials, draws the joinery, and signs off every set of renders before it goes to client. The "eye for detail" line on the old site was hers, and at least the second half of it is true.
Dubai Design District, Bldg 1B · Office 601.
We share the floor with the trades who deliver every project — joinery sample wall, marble samples, fabric library and an espresso machine. Walk-ins by appointment; we never run a project the client hasn't seen us in the room for.