The studio
behind
the
rooms
Decoriq is a quiet, senior-led interior architecture studio working between Dubai and the San Francisco Bay Area since 2010.
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Our story
We started with a conviction that a home should feel inevitable. Fifteen years on, we still draw every room by hand first, still choose every stone ourselves, and still believe the most luxurious thing a space can offer is calm.
The founder
Elias
Varenne
Trained as an architect in Lausanne and Los Angeles, Elias founded Decoriq after a decade restoring mid-century houses in the Bay Area, where he learned that interiors are won in the details nobody photographs.
Today he leads every commission personally in its first and last month: the brief, and the handover.
Elias Varenne
Founder & Principal
What we believe
Four
values
01
Restraint
We remove until what remains is necessary, then we make that beautiful.
02
Material truth
Real stone, solid timber, hand-finished metal. Nothing pretends to be something else.
03
Light first
Every room is planned around daylight at three hours of the day, then lit for the evening.
04
Made to last
Joinery detailed for decades. We design interiors that age into themselves.
Since 2010
Our
journey
2010
Palo Alto
A one-room studio on University Avenue and a single client: a family who wanted their kitchen to feel like a gallery.
2014
First hotel lobby
Our first hospitality commission, and the discovery that warmth scales from a home to a hundred guests.
2017
Dubai opens
Jumeirah Bay Island becomes our second studio. Marble, bronze and light meet California restraint.
2021
Design + build
We bring joinery, stone and site teams in-house, so what is drawn is exactly what is built.
2024
Hospitality award
Lobby of the year, and a waiting list that now runs eighteen months.
2026
Marina Penthouse
Our largest private residence to date: 640 m² facing the water at sunset.
The
people
Thirty-two architects, designers, makers and project managers. A few of the hands behind the work.
Amara Okonkwo
Design Director
Julian Reyes
Head of Architecture
Noor Al-Mansoori
Materials & Sourcing
Theo Lindqvist
Lighting Design
15
Years of practice
140+
Projects delivered
32
Team members
12
Awards won
2026
Gulf Interiors
Best private residence
2025
Pacific Living
Interior of the year
2024
Hospitality Excellence
Lobby of the year
2023
Maison & Form
Rising studio
As featured in
Maison Quarterly
✦
Form & Light
✦
Gulf Interiors
✦
Studio Review
✦
The Room Journal
✦
Pacific Living
✦
Atelier Weekly
✦
Casa Journal
✦
Let’s build
something calm.
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Dubai
Jumeirah Bay Island
Bay Area
220 University Ave
Decoriq