Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA), an interior design firm specialised in hotel and hospitality design since 1964, is experiencing a tremendous demand for its award-winning services and is drawing on its extensive, world-wide resources to meet the challenges and deliver the projects on time.

Saudi Ceramic Company (SCC), one of the largest ceramic manufacturers in the Middle East, launched its 2005 sanitary ware collection at the recently-concluded ISH exhibition, held in Frankfurt, Germany. The collection includes two complete sets as well as several single pieces aimed at the luxury and economy segments of the market.

Alarabi Decoration and Construction Company of Saudi Arabia is poised to spread its wings further with the launch of a joint venture interior decor company in Abu Dhabi shortly.

Leading technical weaving mill GKD (Gebr Kufferath, Duren) of Germany is looking to increase its regional market penetration and the awareness of the decorative and functional attributes of metallic fabrics in architecture and design. Towards this end, the company set up its representative office GKD Middle East in Dubai in May last year.

Having successfully completed Dubai’s majestic Al Qasr hotel at Madinat Jumeirah with classic Bedouin and authentic Arabic-style interiors, Romeo Design has secured a string of other striking projects, which are keeping this specialised design and interior decor firm very busy.

Bagno Design – a Gulf-wide chain of high-end showrooms displaying sanitary ware, tiles, plumbing accessories, sinks and bath-tubs – has come up with unique themes to seamlessly merge bathrooms with the rest of the interiors of the project.

Timber is a ubiquitous material in interiors and has traditionally been widely used due to its natural beauty and physical characteristics, high strength to weight ratio, ease of working with tools and machines, insulating and sound-absorbing properties and resistance to chemicals.