OTILÌA luxury interior design — Italian kitchen in a Saadiyat Island villa, Abu Dhabi
Interior  ·  Exterior  ·  Bespoke

Quiet spaces,authoredfor the long arc.

OTILÌA crafts bespoke interiors for residences and hospitality across the United Arab Emirates. Every project begins with a conversation, ends with a room you live in for decades.

Our Philosophy

Quiet luxury, designedto lastfor decades.

OTILÌA designs quiet, timeless interiors — rooms made from fewer, better things. Honest materials, precise drawings, finishes that age the right way. The result is a home that still feels current twenty years on.

01

Rarity

In the realm of luxury, rarity gleams brighter than gold. We pursue the uncommon — finishes, silhouettes, and gestures that you will not find next door.

02

Quietness

Loud rooms exhaust. Our interiors are quiet — composed of fewer, better things, edited until what remains feels inevitable.

03

Permanence

We design for the long arc of a home. Materials are chosen for how they age, not how they photograph on day one.

04

Authorship

Every project is signed. We don't follow trends; we author rooms that make sense only inside the lives of the people who live in them.

What We Do

Full-service interior design,sketch to handover.

  • 01

    Space Planning

    Space planning in interior design starts with how a room actually gets used — zones, sightlines, circulation, furniture layouts. We resolve those before the visual work begins, so the finished room feels effortless to live in.

  • 02

    Visualising the Design

    Photoreal 3D interior design renders and mood boards let you walk a room before it is built. We model every finish, light source, and reflection so decisions are made on the screen, not on site.

  • 03

    Technical Drawings

    Full interior design technical drawings — floor plans, ceiling plans, elevations, electrical layouts, joinery details. Contractors build from one coordinated set, not from guesswork, which is how projects stay on budget.

  • 04

    Material Curation

    We source stone, timber, brass, plaster, and textile in person — Italian marble, European oak, custom plasters — through long-standing fabricators in Italy, the UAE, and across Europe. Every finish is specified, not guessed.

  • 05

    Project Direction

    OTILÌA holds the project from concept to handover — coordinating fit-out contractors, joiners, and artisans across the UAE so the design arrives on site exactly as drawn, on schedule, on budget.

  • 06

    Bespoke Furniture

    Bespoke furniture and joinery, made in Abu Dhabi to our drawings. When a piece does not exist for the room, we design it — kitchens, libraries, dressing rooms, one-off cabinetry — built by hand, made to measure.

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Years of Practice
60
Spaces Delivered
12
Cities
100%
Bespoke
Aysha Al Tenaji, founder and lead interior designer of OTILÌA, Abu Dhabi
The Studio

AyshaAl Tenaji,Founder.

Aysha Al Tenaji is the founder and lead interior designer of OTILÌA, based in Abu Dhabi. She trained in residential and hospitality design and now leads every commission personally — translating a client's life and home into rooms that hold their character for decades.