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Maya Haddad

Interior architect · Jnah, Beirut

Maya Haddad

Maya Haddad, interior architect

Residential and hospitality interiors in Beirut — drawn, detailed, and followed to site.

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In practice
14 yrs

In practice

Projects delivered
40+

Projects delivered

Languages
3

Languages

Profile

I design interiors that get built the way they were drawn. Fourteen years in, most of my work is apartments in Beirut and a handful of cafés and shops — jobs where the budget is real, the walls are old, and the details have to be resolved before anyone orders anything.

I draw the full set myself: plans, elevations, joinery, lighting. Then I tender it, sit with the carpenter, and keep going to site until the snag list is empty.

Maya at the drafting table, going over a floor plan Maya on site in an unfinished apartment

Selected work

Eight projects, 2022 — 2025

Open any project for the brief and the materials.

Home

Rue Gouraud flat

Gemmayze · 2025 · Full renovation · 185 m²

A 1930s flat with the good bones hidden under four later layers. We took it back to the cement tiles and the triple arch, then built everything new around them.

  • Original cement tile
  • Pale oak
  • Lime plaster

Hospitality

Sabah coffee

Mar Mikhael · 2025 · Café fit-out · 60 m²

Sixty square metres that had to seat fourteen, serve a queue, and still read as calm from the street. The counter does most of the work.

  • Terrazzo
  • Birch ply
  • Brushed brass

Hospitality

Zaytoun

Hamra · 2025 · Dining room · 110 covers

A long, low room with no daylight at the back. Arched niches and wall-washing light give it a far wall worth looking at.

  • Tinted plaster
  • Green velvet
  • Antique brass

Retail

Tarz boutique

Achrafieh · 2024 · Retail interior · 70 m²

The stock changes every six weeks, so nothing is fixed: plinths move, rails move, and the lighting was planned for a room that gets rearranged.

  • Travertine
  • Brushed steel
  • Microcement

Workplace

Nour & Co. office

Badaro · 2024 · Workplace · Twelve desks

One room, twelve people, and a client who wanted no partitions. Acoustics came first and the plan followed them.

  • Oak
  • Black steel
  • Felt panel

Home

Ramlet el Baida duplex

Beirut · 2023 · Bedrooms and baths · 140 m²

Four bedrooms on a west façade that takes the full afternoon sun. Everything here is about keeping the light without the heat.

  • Walnut
  • Linen
  • Honed marble

Home

Saifi Village kitchen

Beirut · 2023 · Kitchen and dining · 28 m²

A galley kitchen that two people cook in at once. Every drawer was drawn around what goes in it.

  • Lacquered joinery
  • White marble
  • Unlacquered brass

Home

Beit Chabab house

Mount Lebanon · 2022 · Restoration · 240 m²

A stone house that had stood empty for twenty years. The sandstone and the arches were restored; the furniture is deliberately of this century.

  • Local sandstone
  • Oak beam
  • Hand-glazed tile

Experience

Fourteen years of it

  1. 2020 — now

    Independent interior architect

    Own practice · Beirut

    • Nine to twelve projects a year, from the first measure to the last snag.
    • Full drawing sets, tendering, and weekly site supervision.

  2. 2017 — 2020

    Senior interior architect

    Nabil Rayess Architects · Beirut

    • Led the hospitality side: four cafés, two restaurants, and a boutique hotel floor.
    • Ran a team of three, and the drawing standards they worked to.

  3. 2014 — 2017

    Interior architect

    Atelier Zarif · Beirut

    • Residential renovations in Achrafieh and Ras Beirut.
    • Took joinery packages from sketch to workshop.

  4. 2012 — 2014

    Junior designer

    Khoury & Partners · Dubai

    • Drafting, visualisation, and FF&E schedules on large residential towers.

Education

  1. 2012

    DES in Interior Architecture

    ALBA — Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts · Beirut

  2. 2019

    Lighting design for interiors

    Professional workshop · Beirut

“She drew every joint before anyone cut anything. My carpenter asked for her number.”
Rami Zgheib · Contractor, Rue Gouraud flat
“We opened on the date she gave us in the first meeting.”
Yasmine Sabah · Owner, Sabah coffee

Skills

Drawn, specified, delivered

Design

  • Space planning
  • Joinery detailing
  • Lighting plans
  • FF&E specification
  • Material sourcing

Delivery

  • Tendering
  • Contractor coordination
  • Site supervision
  • Budget tracking
  • Snagging

Tools

  • AutoCAD
  • Revit
  • SketchUp + V-Ray
  • Rhino
  • Enscape
  • InDesign

Languages

  • Arabic Native
  • French Fluent
  • English Fluent
Travertine, brass, oak and linen samples laid out on a drafting tableA brass pull on an oak drawer front, with a fine shadow gapConcealed light grazing a plaster wallA hand-drawn floor plan on tracing paper

Contact

Tell me about the room

I take on residential and hospitality work in Beirut and Mount Lebanon. A plan, a photo or an address is enough to start.

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Maya Haddad

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