Number 5 - Dubai, UAE

Client: Private
Designer: Number 5
Scope of work: FF&E package, partial Fit-Out

Recently opened in Dubai, Number 5 is a specialty coffee shop focused on coffee excellence. The concept was conceived through the owner’s desire to give a new breath of life to an old residence on Dubai’s famed street, Al Wasl.

The interior has been renovated but still remains almost intact structure-wise. Also, the interior has been painted white to give the appearance of a large space. This simple yet sophisticated use of color doubles as a canvas by making the coffee counter and the furniture become focal points.

COLLECTIONAL FF&E and fit-out specialists offered attentive support in the furniture selection and installation processes.

The furniture selection is a celebration of the brand, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH (GTV), with a rich history in furniture design for F&B environments. In Number 5, you can see a furniture combination which sums up the concept of the project– take the best from the past, combine it with the present to create an environment that incites the future.

The bent beechwood chair N811, designed by Josef Hoffmann in 1930; timeless and modern.

The Single Curve barstool, designed by Japanese design studio Nendo in 2015; a rigorous and poetic approach which distilsthe essence of the design research.

Lehnstuhl lounge chair, designed by Nigel Coates in 2015; a sophisticated lounge chair with an elaborate design.