The Palm
Boutique café interior — Corniche, Abu Dhabi.
A boutique café interior on the Corniche in Abu Dhabi that reads as a residence — woven rattan, three soft micro-cement archways, raw plaster walls, and a 9-metre terrazzo bar poured on site.
- Type
- Commercial — Café
- Location
- Corniche, Abu Dhabi
- Year
- 2024
- Surface
- 230 m²
- Duration
- 8 months
- Discipline
- Concept · FF&E · Lighting · Branding Liaison
A café that does not sound like one.
The owners had run two restaurants and one too many concept-driven cafés. They wanted a quiet room — somewhere a guest would happily come alone with a book before lunch. Hospitality interior, residential feeling.
Three micro-cement arches set the rhythm.
Three full-height arches carved into the rear wall and lined in micro-cement break the long room into thirds. Seating clusters read intimate without anything being screened off.
Rattan, poured terrazzo, one fiddle-leaf fig.
A 9-metre poured terrazzo bar with brass inlay anchors one side. Seating is woven rattan with linen cushions. One large fiddle-leaf fig sits at centre and softens every photograph the room has ever produced.
Full on day two, never advertised.
Conversations stay quiet. Coffee is taken slowly. The café was full on its second day and has never run an ad.
Conversations stay quiet. Coffee is taken slowly. The café was full on its second day and has never run an ad.
