Montaigne Design
Montaigne Design
تأسّس في هونغ كونغ عام 2011.
Shanghai · Dubai · Singapore.
تصميمٌ يبقى في الذاكرة.
interior design downtown dubai

Penthouse and apartment interior design — Downtown Dubai

Downtown apartments are different commissions from Dubai villas. Smaller footprints, taller ceilings, harder light. Our Downtown work treats the apartment as a single, considered room — not as a smaller version of a villa.

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Why Montaigne in Downtown Dubai

عشرون عاماً، ثلاث مدن
تأسّست في هونغ كونغ عام 2011، مقرّها شنغهاي، ولها مكتبان في دبي وسنغافورة. الاستوديو يعمل في الصين والخليج وما وراءهما منذ عقدين.
بقيادة المؤسِّسة، لا بالتفويض
كاثي وانغ تقرأ كلَّ مشروع بنفسها. الفريق وراء كل رسم هو الفريق نفسه الذي تلتقيه في المحادثة الأولى.
جودة، دقّة، سرعة، رعاية
أربعة معايير لا نتنازل عنها. رسومات تُبنى نظيفة، إنهاءات تصمد، مواعيد نفي بها، ورقم رعاية ما بعد التسليم تستطيع الاتصال به.
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Downtown Dubai — the brief

Downtown Dubai apartments and penthouses present a different design challenge from the villa communities. The footprint is tighter, the ceiling heights are more generous, and the light is harder — direct sun reflected off glass and steel, not filtered through garden planting. Our Downtown work is calibrated to these conditions.

Joinery becomes the discipline. In a villa, a poorly resolved corner is absorbed by the room's scale. In a Downtown apartment, every junction is visible. Our Shanghai atelier produces millimetre-precise joinery that makes the apartment read as one piece, not as a collection of fitted units.

Selected work

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Common questions

Frequently asked

Do you design apartment interiors in Downtown Dubai?
We do. Penthouses, duplexes, and single-floor apartments in the Burj Khalifa district, Opera District, and DIFC. Each is treated as a single, considered room.
What is different about designing for Downtown apartments?
Tighter footprints demand more disciplined joinery. Every millimetre of storage, every transition between rooms, every lighting scene must be resolved — there is nowhere to hide loose ends.
Do you work in DIFC apartments?
We do. DIFC apartments and penthouses sit at the boundary of residential and commercial design. Our practice covers both — quiet homes that happen to look out over the financial district.
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