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Alben Office

Built

One material language, three registers

Alben Capital, a DIFC wealth manager for private and institutional clients, let that materiality do the talking — at reception, it does the introducing. The palette is narrow and repeats on purpose: dark veined marble, warm walnut, a backlit onyx wall that reads almost golden under its own light. The boardroom holds the same restraint at scale — a single walnut table, matching leather chairs, panelling floor to ceiling. The executive office repeats it in miniature: a sculptural desk, one painting, glazing left bare so the skyline decorates instead.

Past the client rooms the material list shortens — plaster, glass, walnut veneer — the same language spoken more quietly where the firm works.

Dubai UAE 25.20° N 55.27° E

Details

Status
Built
Year
2025
Area
250 m²
Location
Dubai, UAE
Zone
DIFC
Services
Art Direction, Interior Design
Images
Photography — Courtesy of Alben Capital
Marble reception desk beside a backlit onyx accent wall, with a glass-walled meeting room visible through the doorway.
Symmetrical boardroom with a walnut conference table, eight white swivel chairs, and a wall-mounted screen.
Close-up of three white leather boardroom chairs at the walnut table, each place set with a notepad and pen.
Sculptural black and walnut executive desk with dual monitors and a black leather chair, an abstract cityscape painting on the wall behind.
The same office seating area, with floor-to-ceiling windows framing the Dubai skyline and a potted fig tree beside the sofa.
Rows of workstations under linear pendant lighting, with glass-walled offices along the perimeter.
Foreground workstations with the Dubai skyline filling the floor-to-ceiling windows behind.
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