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Studio · Dubai Design District
Italian design,made slowly.
A boutique interior design and architecture studio in Dubai
Design District. Bespoke residential and commercial spaces,
crafted project by project since 2010.
We are an Italian studio working from a small office in
Dubai Design District. Interior Lab was founded
in Milan in 2010 by Lara Del Chiaro, an
architect trained in Venice, and moved to the Gulf the
same year. Since then we have completed more than
eighty projects across the UAE, Sicily and West Africa —
villas, penthouses, restaurants, offices, gardens.
The work is held to a single discipline we call slow
work: design and architecture only, no fit-out, no
compromise on craft. Each project is drawn in detail,
specified to the last screw, and supervised on site by
the team that designed it.
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Selected work · 2021 — 2024
Eighty-plus commissions, photographed in their finished light.
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Philosophy
“We work the way Italian studios used to: slowly, withour hands on every detail. The brief takes a year, not aweekend. It is the only way to design a space thatwill still feel right in twenty years.”
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Start a project in this vein.
A first conversation at the studio or on your site. We work with private clients and developers across Dubai and the GCC.
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The studio
Milan, Venice, Florence, and a small office in d3.
Interior Lab was founded in Milan in 2010 by
Lara Del Chiaro, an architect who had spent the previous decade
in Venice and Milan. The studio moved to Dubai the same year
and has worked out of Building 5 in Dubai Design
District ever since.
We are intentionally small — a team of architects, interior
designers and project leads — and we keep the project list short
so each commission has the studio's full attention from concept
to completion.
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People
Two principals, one practice.
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Philosophy
Slow work.
We refuse the pace of a fast turnover. Briefs run for a year,
sometimes longer. The reward is a building or a room that
still feels right a decade later.
Design only.
We are architects and interior designers — not contractors.
Our role is to draw, specify and supervise. The trades we
partner with are independent and chosen for the project.
Bioclimatic instinct.
Sustainability isn't a tick-box; it's a brief constraint.
Sharon Naseri's bioclimatic specialism shapes how the
architecture meets the Gulf climate from the first sketch.
Italian inheritance.
Italian craft, Italian materials, an Italian way of treating
a room as a single composition. The studio is in Dubai;
the way it works is not.
Recognition
2022Dubai Design WeekExhibitor
2010 — present80+ projects worldwideUAE · GCC · Sicily · West Africa
Talk to the studio.
An hour at the office in d3, or a site visit. We will tell you whether the project is a good fit and what a realistic programme looks like.
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Disciplines
Seven disciplines. One practice.
We work across interior design, architecture and landscape —
residential to commercial, an apartment to an eighty-cover restaurant.
Design and creative direction only; never construction.
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The design process
Five stages, drawn out — not rushed through.
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A note on fees
Every project is bespoke. Fees are structured as a percentage of
the design budget or as a fixed scope-of-work, agreed at the end
of the first consultation. We never publish prices because no two
briefs are alike — but we are always clear with you about ours.