Luxury office interior design · Dubai
Luxury office interior design in the UAE, in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, is about control, not spend: luxury office interiors for CEO and chairman floors that the people in them can adjust. On a CEO or chairman floor, the people who use each room set its temperature, its acoustic and visual privacy, and light that follows the daylight. All of it is decided at first fix, in the drawings. Expensive finishes on a floor nobody can adjust are decoration.
The definition
Walk two executive floors finished in the same marble and the same veneer. On one, the chairman sets the room’s temperature, dims to a scene and turns the glass opaque for a private call. On the other, the chairman asks facilities to raise a ticket. The finishes match. Only the first floor is luxury.
Floor A · finished
Floor B · controlled
Expensive finishes on a floor you cannot adjust — that is decoration.
Control has to be designed: zoned services, acoustic build-ups, glazing and sensors specified at first fix and coordinated with the joinery. It is the part of luxury that does not photograph, and the part the people on the floor feel every working day.
The six controls
Luxury office design in Dubai: what the people on the floor can adjust.
Each of the six controls rides on something that has to be in the drawings before the ceiling closes: conduits, zoning, wall build-ups, glazing and sensor positions. That is why luxury is designed at the start of a project and cannot be bought at the end of one, whatever the budget.
Control 01 · Independent climate zoning
The chairman’s office, the boardroom and the open floor on separate zones, so each room holds its own temperature instead of negotiating with the rest of the floor.
Decided in space planning · fixed at first fix
Control 02 · Acoustic privacy
Walls taken up past the ceiling line, doors sealed and services quietened, so a raised voice stays inside the room it started in. Specified in the drawings, not hoped for after.
Walls built at first fix, before the ceiling closes
Control 03 · Switchable glass
Clear when the floor should feel open, opaque the moment a call turns private. No blinds, no ladder. The glass is wired at first fix or not at all.
Wired at first fix · fitted with the partitions
Control 04 · Daylight compensation
A sensor reads the daylight and the fittings answer it: brighter as the afternoon fades, easing off when the sun comes in. The light level holds, and nobody touches a switch.
Sensor and dimmable circuits at first fix
Control 05 · Scenes
Presentation, task, video call, evening: lighting and shading move together, programmed before handover and named in plain language on the keypad.
Circuits grouped at first fix · programmed at handover
Control 06 · Automation
Climate, lighting, glazing and AV on one system, its equipment housed in the joinery, commissioned and labelled so the people on the floor can run it.
Containment at first fix · commissioned at handover
Controls 04 and 05, in detail
Every scene on the keypad is a setting of the same four layers. Daylight compensation is the fourth layer answering the sun. Drawn on the reflected ceiling plan with the joinery, they are circuits at first fix; drawn afterwards, they are lamps.
Recessed fittings placed on the reflected ceiling plan and spaced to the room, not the grid.
A defined pool of light where the work happens, on a circuit of its own.
A line of light in the shelving and a wash on the feature wall, so veneer and stone read as they did on the sample board.
Blinds, desk orientation and screen positions set against the glazing, so daylight is used without glare on a screen.
The control plan
A CEO suite, drawn. Choose a control to find it in the room.
This is an executive suite drawn as a plan: the CEO office, a meeting zone, the assistant’s desk and the glass line to the corridor. Choose a control to see where it sits in the room and the stage at which it gets fixed. Every one of the six is decided before the ceiling closes.
Control 01 of 06
Where it sits. Above the ceiling, in three zones: the office, the meeting zone and the assistant’s desk. Each zone has its own control on the wall by its door.
Control 02 of 06
Where it sits. The walls between the office, the meeting zone and the assistant, taken past the ceiling line, with sealed doors at each opening.
Control 03 of 06
Where it sits. The glass line between the office and the corridor. Clear, the suite reads open from the floor; opaque, it closes to view.
Control 04 of 06
Where it sits. A sensor near the façade, and rows of dimmable fittings set back from the glass so each row answers the daylight it gets.
Control 05 of 06
Where it sits. A keypad inside the office door and one by the meeting zone door, each naming its scenes in plain language.
Control 06 of 06
Where it sits. A ventilated bay inside the joinery run, with cabling to every sensor, keypad, climate control and glass panel on the plan.
The stages, in weeks: space planning 4, approvals 2–4, build 16–18 — first fix, ceiling close and second fix all sit inside it — and furnish 2. The full programme →
Room by room
CEO office, boardroom, lounge and dining: luxury office design, room by room.
An executive floor is a handful of rooms that carry most of the detail. Each needs a different control first: the suite its own temperature and privacy, the boardroom its scenes and AV, the lounge softer light and quieter acoustics, the dining room a screen from the working floor. We set that priority in the plan.
Executive office — Global TextilesThe suite
Its own climate zone, walls that hold a conversation, glass that closes the room to view, and joinery that keeps storage, screen and services behind one line.
Controls first · 01 · 02 · 03 · 06
Boardroom — AlSubeai InvestmentsThe boardroom
The table is fixed before anything else, because sight lines to the screen, the AV and the ceiling above it all follow. Its scenes are grouped onto circuits at first fix.
Controls first · 02 · 05 · 06
Lounge — AlSubeai InvestmentsThe lounge
Somewhere to think between meetings: softer light, softer acoustics, and the register of a lounge rather than a corridor with chairs.
Controls first · 04 · 05
The dining room
Lunch and hosted meals held away from the working floor, screened and acoustically separate, with the pantry close enough that nothing is carried past the desks.
Controls first · 02 · 03
On the IMI floor at One Za’abeel, the same plan carried enclosed offices, sit-stand desks, a wellness room, a kitchen and a boardroom. The IMI project →
Executive gallery
Executive offices, boardrooms and lounges from floors we designed and built for ASI in Dubai and AlSubeai Investments in Jeddah, with new photographs from our most recent executive floor. Look for where the control sits: the zoned ceiling, the line of the glass, the light built into the joinery. Open any image to see it full size.
Photographs unless marked Render.
The full portfolio →The suite, drawn
CEO office and chairman office design, detailed before the veneer arrives.
A chairman’s office is a small building: its own climate zone, its own acoustic build-up, joinery that hides more than it shows, and sightlines managed so the room reads open until the moment it must not. All of it is drawn. The plan and the elevation decide it long before the veneer arrives.
Fig 01 · the plan
The meeting zone, the approach and the assistant’s desk placed so the suite reads generous from outside while the desk itself sits off the sightline, with switchable glazing that closes the room to view at one touch.
Fig 02 · the desk wall
Storage, wardrobe, screen and services behind one line of joinery: doors on touch latches, grain matched across the run, the technology out of sight until it is wanted. The elevation is drawn to the millimetre, because the eye reads this wall all day.
The IMI film
A walkthrough of the IMI office, One Za’abeel, Dubai.
IMI at One Za’abeel is an executive floor we designed and built on one contract: 5,000 sqft of enclosed offices, sit-stand desks, a wellness room, a kitchen and a boardroom, delivered in 28 weeks. The walkthrough plays here, on the page. Watch it with one question in mind: what can the people on this floor adjust?
Poster · render
Film · IMI at One Za’abeelWalkthrough · plays in place
Watch for
Material and sequence
Luxury office materials in Dubai: stone, veneer and made joinery, and their lead times.
The finishes that read as luxury, bookmatched stone, timber veneer and made joinery, carry lead times of around eight weeks. So they are chosen in design and ordered against the signed drawings, while the programme can still absorb them. A floor that looks effortless at handover was decided, piece by piece, months before.
Reception floors, desk tops and feature walls. Once stone is cut to the technical set, a change is a re-order, so the drawing is signed first.
Wall panels and joinery faces are ordered together, so grain and tone run across the room rather than changing from batch to batch.
Desks, credenzas, wall runs and the boardroom table are detailed in the technical set and made off site while partitions and services go in.
Ordered once the drawings are signed, about eight weeks of making runs alongside approvals and the first weeks of the build, so stone, veneer and joinery arrive when second fix needs them. Ordered later, the programme waits for them.
Fig 03 · the shadow gap
A clean shadow gap needs the wall, the ceiling and the joinery to agree to the millimetre: three trades meeting in one line. It is drawn in section, made off site, and it is the first thing a trained eye checks on any executive floor.
Fig 04 · the samples
Every stone, veneer and made piece named and ordered against the signed drawings, so the long lead times run inside the programme instead of after it.
Fig 05 · on site
Veneer panels for the Opus by Omniyat executive floor arriving finished and going up in sequence, in the project’s final weeks before handover.
Proof
IMI at One Za’abeel and Opus by Omniyat, with their numbers.
Two executive floors carry our numbers in public. Opus by Omniyat is under construction, in its final weeks before handover: 6,200 sqft, contracted at AED 4.5M on a 24-week programme. IMI at One Za’abeel, 5,000 sqft, was designed and built for AED 4.2M in 28 weeks against a fixed move-in date.
Delivered
Open the project →Three layout options and fifteen planning rounds to a signed plan, then enclosed offices, sit-stand desks, a wellness room, a kitchen and a boardroom, built against a fixed move-in date.
“Great feeling walking into this beautiful office.”
RenderUnder construction · final weeks before handover
Open the project →Turnkey, from client brief to handover. A floor with little natural light, planned around borrowed light through glass partitions.
What it costs
Luxury office fitout cost in Dubai, written out.
Executive floors are priced inside the published turnkey band, not above it. What the budget buys on these floors is control: zoned services, acoustic build-ups, wired glass and scenes decided at first fix, joinery drawn in detail, and stone and veneer ordered on time. We price against drawings, so every number is fenced by its scope.
An office fitout in Dubai starts at AED 350 per sqft for shell-to-occupied — partitions, ceilings, flooring, MEP alterations and joinery. Turnkey, with FF&E, IT, AV, automation and appliances included, runs AED 600–850 per sqft. IMI at One Za’abeel landed at AED 840 per sqft; Opus by Omniyat, in its final weeks before handover, is contracted at AED 726.
What moves an executive floor within the band
How a fitout is priced →Where shell-to-occupied starts: Cat A and Cat B →
Executive floor FAQ
Luxury office interior design FAQ, Dubai.
Control. A luxurious floor lets the people on it set their own temperature, their acoustic and visual privacy, and light that follows the daylight, all designed at first fix, in the drawings. Expensive finishes on a floor nobody can adjust are decoration, and the difference shows within a day of moving in.
Executive floors sit inside the turnkey band: AED 600–850 per sqft with FF&E, IT, AV, automation and appliances included. There is no separate luxury tier above it. What moves a floor within the band is how many rooms carry their own zone, how much glass is switchable and how much joinery is made rather than bought.
Yes. That is independent climate zoning, and it is a first-fix decision. The suite, the boardroom and the open floor sit on separate zones with their own controls, drawn into the services layout before the ceiling closes. Added afterwards, it means reopening a finished ceiling, which is why it belongs in the design.
It is a small building of its own: a separate climate zone, a higher acoustic specification, switchable glazing, denser made joinery and its own AV, with sightlines planned so the room reads open until it must not. The drawings carry more detail per square metre there than anywhere else on the floor.
At design stage. Bookmatched stone, timber veneer and made joinery carry lead times of around eight weeks, so they are named and ordered against the signed drawings while approvals run. Chosen later, the making time runs past the point where the build is ready for them, and the programme waits.
Some can, but most cost more afterwards. Scenes can be reprogrammed and a keypad moved, but climate zones, acoustic walls, wired glass and sensor circuits ride on what sits above the ceiling. Adding them means opening finished ceilings and joinery. For how that work is phased on a working floor, see office renovation.
Fajr Interiors designs and builds luxury office interiors for CEO and chairman floors in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, on one contract. IMI at One Za’abeel (5,000 sqft, AED 4.2M, 28 weeks) is open; Opus by Omniyat (6,200 sqft) is in its final weeks before handover.
Start in the right order
Send the tower, the floor plate and the dates you are working to. We come back with a sequence, the controls the floor can carry and a straight number. We design and build luxury office interiors in Dubai, and plan Abu Dhabi floors from our Dubai studio.
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