// Interior Lab — content data. Single source of truth for projects, disciplines, studio. // Only facts traceable to research/ are used; nothing fabricated. const DISCIPLINES = [ { id: 'residential', n: '01', name: 'Luxury Residential', blurb: 'Villas, penthouses and apartments — bespoke architectural interiors for private clients across Dubai and the GCC.', }, { id: 'commercial', n: '02', name: 'Commercial & Workspace', blurb: 'Offices and corporate environments designed around the people inside them — a calm counterpoint to the city.', }, { id: 'hospitality', n: '03', name: 'Hospitality & F&B', blurb: 'Restaurants, lounges and guest experiences shaped by material narrative and the slow pacing of an evening.', }, { id: 'retail', n: '04', name: 'Retail', blurb: 'Showroom and boutique interiors that frame the product the way a gallery frames a work — quietly, precisely.', }, { id: 'wellness', n: '05', name: 'Wellness', blurb: 'Spas, clinics and restorative spaces. Soft acoustics, warm light, the kind of stillness that lowers the shoulders.', }, { id: 'landscape', n: '06', name: 'Landscape', blurb: 'Gardens, pool decks and exterior courtyards. Mediterranean planting palettes adapted to Gulf conditions.', }, { id: 'architecture', n: '07', name: 'Architecture', blurb: 'Bioclimatic, sustainability-aware architectural design — led by an Order of Architects of Florence member.', }, ]; const PROCESS = [ { n: '01', name: 'Consultation', body: 'A first conversation at the studio in d3 or on site. We listen, walk through the space, and understand how you live or work.' }, { n: '02', name: 'Concept', body: 'Mood, material palette, plans and atmosphere drawings. The brief sharpens into a direction the project will hold for years.' }, { n: '03', name: 'Detailed Design', body: 'Joinery, finishes, lighting, furniture, fabric and stone schedules. Every surface specified, every detail drawn.' }, { n: '04', name: 'Documentation', body: 'A complete documentation set ready for procurement and the trades. Design intent preserved through to execution.' }, { n: '05', name: 'Design Oversight', body: 'On-site review and creative direction throughout construction. We protect the design — others build it.' }, ]; const PROJECTS = [ { slug: 'attessa-penthouse', name: 'Attessa Penthouse', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'Dubai Marina', year: '2023', area: '420 m²', scope: 'Full interior design · architectural concept', cover: 'media/interior-01.webp', tagline: 'Travertine, pampas and a soft Mediterranean light, twenty floors above the marina.', brief: 'A duplex penthouse for an international family who wanted somewhere to entertain without losing the calm of home. The existing shell was a developer-grade box: high ceilings, long sightlines, a flat brief.', response: 'We treated the whole apartment as a single horizontal gesture. A travertine table sits at the centre like a stone in a Roman piazza; a fluted timber base wraps the kitchen island and continues around the room as a quiet rhythm. The palette is held to three notes — bone, stone, espresso — so the sea outside is allowed to colour the space.', materials: ['Striped Italian travertine', 'Pale fluted oak veneer', 'Smoked brass hardware', 'Hand-finished bone plaster'], images: ['media/interior-01.webp', 'media/project-01.webp', 'media/interior-02.webp', 'media/project-03.webp'], featured: true, }, { slug: 'al-barari-villa', name: 'Al Barari Villa', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'Al Barari, Dubai', year: '2022', area: '850 m²', scope: 'Architecture · interior design · landscape direction', cover: 'media/interior-04.webp', tagline: 'A house arranged around a living wall and a single, theatrical sculpture.', brief: 'A young Emirati family commissioned a villa that could host fifty guests on a Friday and feel intimate for four on a Tuesday. The site, set against Al Barari\'s engineered gardens, asked for a building that joined rather than competed.', response: 'The plan pivots around an exterior courtyard: a vertical garden on one side, a single resin-glass sculpture on the other, a shallow reflecting pool between them. From inside, every primary room frames the courtyard. The interior is quiet by decision — pale plaster, oak millwork, the occasional shock of bronze — so the planting can take the lead.', materials: ['White polished plaster', 'European oak millwork', 'Patinated bronze inlay', 'Honed basalt flooring'], images: ['media/interior-04.webp', 'media/interior-10.webp', 'media/project-12.webp'], featured: true, }, { slug: 'high-view-the-palm', name: 'High View — The Palm', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'Palm Jumeirah', year: '2023', area: '380 m²', scope: 'Full interior design · custom joinery', cover: 'media/interior-08.webp', tagline: 'A penthouse that looks out at the Burj — and looks back at itself just as carefully.', brief: 'The clients had bought the apartment for the view: Burj Al Arab on the horizon, ocean immediately below. They wanted everything inside to defer to that — but not disappear.', response: 'We kept the floor plan open, dropping a soft-curved bulkhead over the dining zone to draw the eye out to the sea. Travertine veining on the kitchen island ties to the marble shelving wall on the opposite end of the room; brass ringed pendants act as the room\'s one piece of jewellery. Curtains in unbleached linen filter the afternoon glare without dimming the light.', materials: ['Calacatta Viola marble', 'Smoked oak veneer', 'Antique brass pendant lighting', 'Italian linen sheers'], images: ['media/interior-08.webp', 'media/interior-05.webp', 'media/project-04.webp'], featured: true, }, { slug: 'bluewaters-apartment', name: 'Bluewaters Apartment', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'Bluewaters Island', year: '2021', area: '210 m²', scope: 'Full interior design', cover: 'media/interior-03.webp', tagline: 'A collector\'s apartment, organised around two cobalt paintings.', brief: 'Two works of contemporary art arrived before the brief did. The interior had to hold them without being upstaged, and give a young couple somewhere that felt unmistakably their own.', response: 'We let the paintings set the colour story — a single deep cobalt against warm whites and bronze-clad joinery. A floor-to-ceiling bronze column anchors the open plan; the dining setting echoes the column\'s curve. Everything else is restrained: matte-lacquer chairs, a travertine sideboard, smoked-glass pendants like ink drops in the air.', materials: ['Bronze-clad joinery', 'Travertine console', 'Smoked-glass lighting', 'Wool bouclé upholstery'], images: ['media/interior-03.webp', 'media/project-05.webp'], featured: true, }, { slug: 'villa-noto-sicily', name: 'Villa Noto', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'Noto, Sicily', year: '2022', area: '520 m²', scope: 'Architecture · interior design · landscape', cover: 'media/interior-06.webp', tagline: 'A return home. A villa in the Sicilian baroque, reframed for a contemporary family.', brief: 'Our first Italian commission in over a decade. A family with roots in Catania asked us to restore and re-imagine a Noto-stone house — to make it feel as much a part of 2022 as 1830.', response: 'The original stone walls were retained, cleaned and left visible where the structure allowed. Inside, we slid a quiet contemporary layer in front of them: oak shelving frames, pale terrazzo floors, an abstract gold-leaf canvas that pulls the room\'s warmest tones forward. The intervention is reversible — a respect we owe the building.', materials: ['Noto sandstone (original)', 'Pale Sicilian terrazzo', 'European oak shelving', 'Carrara marble plinths'], images: ['media/interior-06.webp', 'media/interior-09.webp'], featured: true, }, { slug: 'field-of-dreams-villa', name: 'Field of Dreams Villa', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'Damac Hills', year: '2024', area: '760 m²', scope: 'Full interior design · pool & landscape', cover: 'media/project-06.webp', tagline: 'A family house that opens onto the golf course like a hinged page.', brief: 'A relocated family wanted the indoor / outdoor flow they had grown up with in Southern California, translated for Dubai\'s climate and the green of the Field of Dreams fairway.', response: 'Bifold openings the full width of the living pavilion bring the garden inside in winter and a deep eave shades it in summer. Inside, the palette is held neutral — bone linen, pale oak, the lightest of greys — so the fairway green sits at the back of every photograph.', materials: ['Pale oak engineered flooring', 'Carrara marble vein-matched islands', 'Linen bouclé seating', 'Powder-coated steel pergola'], images: ['media/project-06.webp', 'media/interior-09.webp'], featured: false, }, { slug: 'hattan-villa', name: 'Hattan Villa', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'The Lakes, Dubai', year: '2023', area: '690 m²', scope: 'Architecture · full interior design · pool', cover: 'media/project-13.webp', tagline: 'A whitewashed Mediterranean re-reading of a Hattan plot.', brief: 'The clients had lived in Mykonos for a decade and wanted a Dubai house that still carried that light. A complete reskin and re-plan of a 2000s-era Hattan villa.', response: 'Exterior render in three shades of off-white. Inside, the floor is a single seamless microcement, lifted at the bedrooms with a band of bleached oak. Black mashrabiya panels on the balconies, hand-cut in Damascus, are the one explicit gesture to the city the house sits in.', materials: ['Microcement flooring', 'Bleached oak inserts', 'Hand-cut Damascene mashrabiya', 'Three-tone lime render'], images: ['media/project-13.webp', 'media/project-14.webp', 'media/project-07.webp'], featured: true, }, { slug: 'marina-promenade-penthouse', name: 'Marina Promenade Penthouse', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'Dubai Marina', year: '2023', area: '340 m²', scope: 'Full interior design · joinery', cover: 'media/interior-07.webp', tagline: 'An open kitchen, a fluted oak island, a sofa you do not want to leave.', brief: 'A young couple, first house together. They cooked, hosted, and wanted the kitchen at the centre rather than at the back.', response: 'We pulled the island forward into the living room, fluted in pale oak, capped in Calacatta. Three bouclé bar stools draw a soft line at the front. Behind, the cooking wall is kept lean and quiet so the island is allowed to be the social object it now is.', materials: ['Calacatta marble', 'Fluted pale oak', 'Antique brass tapware', 'Bouclé bar stools'], images: ['media/interior-07.webp', 'media/project-05.webp'], featured: false, }, { slug: 'jvt-villa', name: 'JVT Villa', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'Jumeirah Village Triangle', year: '2021', area: '410 m²', scope: 'Full interior design', cover: 'media/project-11.webp', tagline: 'A family villa with three generations under one roof — and three different palettes.', brief: 'Parents, grandparents and two young children. The brief asked for a single architectural language with three rooms inside it: a calm parents\' wing, a more colourful family living core, and a children\'s zone that was unmistakably theirs.', response: 'A single oak-and-mint axis ties the floor plan together. The parents\' rooms hold to greys and bouclé; the family dining is dressed in teal and a palm-leaf mural; the children\'s bedroom gets a jungle wallpaper and two saffron pillows. Three rooms, one house.', materials: ['Mint-painted alcove walls', 'Powder-coated steel shelving', 'Teal velvet dining chairs', 'Jungle-printed wallpaper'], images: ['media/project-09.webp', 'media/project-11.webp', 'media/project-10.webp'], featured: false, }, { slug: 'silver-springs-villa', name: 'Silver Springs Villa', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'Damac Hills', year: '2024', area: '800 m²', scope: 'Full interior design · pool · landscape', cover: 'media/project-08.webp', tagline: 'A garden pool that asks to be swum in at dusk.', brief: 'A family of five, relocating from Beirut. They wanted a garden that held the social weight of the house — not a back-of-the-villa afterthought.', response: 'We sank the pool deck a half-step below the house so the water is at eye level when you sit. Olive trees on the perimeter, glass mosaic tiles inside the pool, a single floor-standing rattan lamp by the lounger. The villa interior keeps quiet so the garden gets the photograph.', materials: ['Mediterranean blue glass mosaic', 'Olive trees (mature transplants)', 'Travertine pool surround', 'Rattan exterior lighting'], images: ['media/project-08.webp'], featured: false, }, { slug: 'glass-house', name: 'Glass House', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'Downtown Dubai', year: '2022', area: '290 m²', scope: 'Full interior design', cover: 'media/interior-06.webp', tagline: 'A collector\'s apartment, with the city skyline as a fifth wall.', brief: 'Two collectors, one apartment, more art than wall. The shelving had to be a piece of architecture in its own right.', response: 'An oak grid runs the full length of the gallery wall, dropped behind a marble plinth so each object hovers a little. A gold-leaf canvas anchors the room; the rest of the palette steps quietly back.', materials: ['European oak shelving grid', 'Calacatta plinth', 'Gold-leaf abstract canvas', 'Microcement floor'], images: ['media/interior-06.webp'], featured: false, }, { slug: 'damac-hills-villa', name: 'DAMAC Hills Villa', sector: 'Residential', sectorId: 'residential', location: 'Damac Hills', year: '2023', area: '720 m²', scope: 'Full interior design', cover: 'media/interior-05.webp', tagline: 'A sculpted ceiling, brass-ringed pendants, a kitchen that pretends to be a sculpture.', brief: 'A confident, contemporary family villa that did not want to apologise for being new.', response: 'Curved bulkheads sweep across the ceiling in a single hand-drawn line. Two brass-ringed glass pendants drop into the dining table; bookmatched marble cladding wraps the kitchen island like a sleeve.', materials: ['Bookmatched marble cladding', 'Sculpted GRP ceiling bulkheads', 'Hand-blown glass pendants', 'European oak joinery'], images: ['media/interior-05.webp'], featured: false, }, { slug: 'la-perla', name: 'La Perla', sector: 'Commercial', sectorId: 'commercial', location: 'Dubai', year: '2020', area: 'TBC', scope: 'Hospitality / F&B · interior design', cover: 'media/interior-04.webp', tagline: 'A commercial fit-out designed around a single Italian craft.', brief: 'A flagship hospitality space — interior design and creative direction only. More to follow with client approval.', response: 'Project narrative and full image set to be published once the operator confirms the storyline. Holding card while we wait on permissions.', materials: ['Confirm with client'], images: ['media/interior-04.webp'], featured: false, stub: true, }, ]; const STUDIO_FACTS = [ { k: 'Founded', v: 'Milan, then Dubai (2010)' }, { k: 'Studio', v: 'Building 5 – A206, Dubai Design District' }, { k: 'Practice', v: 'Architecture & Interior Design' }, { k: 'Projects', v: '80+ worldwide' }, { k: 'Recognised at', v: 'Dubai Design Week 2022' }, ]; const TEAM = [ { name: 'Lara Del Chiaro', role: 'Founder & Creative Director', body: 'Trained as an architect in Venice. Twenty years of interior and commercial design, the first half in Milan, the second leading Interior Lab in Dubai since 2010.', }, { name: 'Shaghayegh "Sharon" Naseri', role: 'Head of Architectural Design', body: 'Registered with the Order of Architects of Florence. Master\'s in Architecture (Florence) and a second in Green Building & Sustainable Architecture. Bioclimatic focus; previously contributor to Masdar Future Energy.', }, ]; Object.assign(window, { DISCIPLINES, PROCESS, PROJECTS, STUDIO_FACTS, TEAM });