From Italy
to Dubai

In the living room the veins of the Calacatta Oro run across the floor, fold and rise to form the fireplace wall, which hangs in the dark like a suspended slab. The pale sofas and the monolithic low table cut from the same block stay low, so as not to compete with the stone. The long glass wall frames the towers of Dubai and a single point of warm light falls on the hearth: everything else is half-light and reflection. It is a vision of the interior that Michelessi designs and builds to measure, from the block to the laying.

Seen from above, the Smart Solar Freeze Pergola reveals its double nature: half glazed canopy letting the sky pass through, half photovoltaic panels capturing every available ray. Below, a complete outdoor lounge breathes in the evening light: pale sofas, cushions, ferns, the warm wood of the floor framed by white pebbles, while a line of light runs along the water channel and a car waits, charging, beside the structure. This is the project with which Michelessi brings a new idea of comfort to Dubai: a climate-controlled pergola that produces, stores and manages its own energy, designed and made in Italy with equal parts engineering and elegance. Design and technology merge without a sound: the aluminium of the frame, the glass, the solar modules become architectural matter on a par with marble and natural stone in interior projects. To live outdoors, on the energy of your own sun: that is the promise.

Night has settled over the garden, but the counter is still alive: the spotlights of the dark wood pergola ignite the split-face stone wall, which gives back a golden, irregular light, as vivid as a flame. The honed stone top curves generously, followed by wrought-iron stools with pale cushions, while a pyramid lantern guards the corner and the landscape of rocks and trees dissolves into blue. This is the hour when an outdoor kitchen shows its character: that elegant robustness only natural stone can give, worked to measure to follow the curves of the design. In the outdoor projects Michelessi proposes for Dubai, the counter becomes the social heart of the garden: the place where a glass is poured, conversation flows, and guests stay late. Every detail, from the cut of the top to the weave of the cladding, is handcrafted in Italy, so that evening always finds its stage set.

The project takes shape before the building site does: in this visualisation, two outdoor kitchen modules present their white tops with rounded edges, grill, burners and sink set flush. The bases, clad in a stone-effect material crossed by pale veining, converse with the floor of warm wooden planks, while the green hedge and integrated planter soften the white perimeter of the terrace. This is how Michelessi's bespoke design process works: every outdoor kitchen is drawn around the client's actual space and previewed in advance, so that materials, finishes and proportions are chosen together before anything is built. In the projects for Dubai, this care is married to materials capable of defying the climate: natural stone, technical surfaces, wood and steel, worked with a precision that is unmistakably made in Italy. The result is a garden that becomes a true extra room, ready to welcome long lunches and slow sunsets.

Before the stone is ever cut, the project is already alive: this visualisation shows a formal entrance hall in all its future elegance, walls clad in beige slabs with delicate horizontal veining, the crystal chandelier raining down from the ceiling rose, the latticed boiserie warming the far wall. On the ground, the polished floor is crossed by double dark bands that frame the space and lead toward the sitting corner, where wine-coloured armchairs and a lit lamp suggest the waiting to come. It is a central instrument of the Michelessi method: presenting the client with a faithful preview of the room, so that materials, proportions and details are decided together before the work begins. In this way, bespoke marble working leaves nothing to chance: every choice is seen, discussed and approved. Italian craftsmanship, in the projects for Dubai, begins exactly here: with an image that becomes a promise, and a promise that becomes stone.

Here the light does not merely illuminate: it dresses. Every surface of this bathroom receives it and returns it gilded, from the polished marble floor in diagonal checks, framed by a mosaic border in warm brown tones, to the walls adorned with arabesques embroidering glass and stone. The great mirror multiplies the crystal chandelier above, wall lamps with pale shades punctuate the wall, and the marble vanity top carries its flacons like a private altar. At the far end, the dressing room with its ordered shelves completes the suite. It is a calibrated opulence, where every ornament has its rule and every material its hierarchy: the stylistic register many Middle Eastern projects call for, and one that bespoke marble working knows how to honour. Michelessi brings to its Dubai projects a mastery that is unmistakably made in Italy: inlays, mosaics and precious marbles composed with artisan wisdom, for bathrooms that are jewels to be lived in.

The floor is the true tapestry of this salon: slabs of brown marble with flame-like veining, laid open-book, draw waves of coffee and amber that the light from the French windows sets glinting; a broad cream border frames them along a soft curve, following the plan of the room. All around, the whiteness of the boiserie and columns, damask drapes gathered at the windows, display cabinets with collectors' plates: a luminous, measured classicism. This is the kind of room where bespoke marble working gives its very best: slabs selected for continuity of drawing, curves cut true, surfaces polished to a mirror. In the projects Michelessi creates for Dubai, salons like this become declarations of style: precious marble worked in the manner of Italian craftsmanship, for floors that are not merely walked upon, but admired as works of art.

From the wall of the upper basin, seven blades of water dive in unison into the pool below: each stone spout barely protrudes from the cladding, and the jets fall parallel, catching the sun in filaments of silver. Pale stone dresses everything: the rounded coping crowning the low walls, the squared slabs of the faces, the bench surfacing in the green water of the hot tub. Below, the pool's surface ripples the reflections into a liquid mosaic. This is the kind of aquatic scenography that turns a garden into a private resort: an architecture of water and natural stone, where every element is dimensioned to measure, from the pitch of the spouts to the joints between the slabs. In the projects Michelessi signs for Dubai, these works unite technical competence with the artisan's sensibility: because the sound of water falling on stone is an ancient luxury, and it deserves to be built to the highest standard.

From above, the canopy declares its mission at once: six bays of deep blue photovoltaic panels, framed by the dark structure, form a technological sky over the terrace. Beneath this productive shade, life arranges itself naturally: the wooden table with upholstered chairs, the lounge with pale sofas, the round side table with its bowl of fruit, two people talking in the comfort of a sheltered space. The light floor reflects what daylight remains; green planters mark the perimeter. It is the perfect synthesis of design and energy that Michelessi's Dubai project proposes: intelligent pergolas that cool, illuminate and produce their own power, ideal for villas, hotels and penthouses. Alongside its tradition of bespoke marble working, the company thus carries an idea of the future: Italian craftsmanship that integrates solar technology without sacrificing a single gram of elegance.

The sun passes through the adjustable blades of the pergola and rains onto the anthracite wall in diagonal stripes, a stave of light that changes with the hours. Beneath this luminous score, the outdoor lounge composes itself with northern rigour: white sofas with grey cushions, upholstered poufs, the low table with candles and vases of dahlias, all resting on a floor of large pale stone slabs with the slimmest of joints. Sliding glass doors connect the interior, palms and grasses soften the edges, the blue sky does the rest. This is contemporary outdoor living in its purest form: a room without walls, climate-controlled by geometry. In the projects Michelessi develops for Dubai, bioclimatic pergolas like this are integrated with natural stone paving cut to measure: Italian craftsmanship draws the space, and the sun decorates it differently every day.

From above, the composition reads like an architectural still life: the white pavilion with its grid of twelve photovoltaic panels, the ultramarine lounge sheltered by sheer curtains, the sculptural white armchair on its carpet of pale gravel, and all around the turquoise water descending over stone steps like a geometric beach. The wood of the walkway, the exposed stone walls of the house, the breakfast tray at the water's edge: every detail in its place, in a balance worthy of a fashion photograph. It is the most complete vision of the Smart Solar Freeze Pergola that Michelessi proposes for Dubai: an island of climate-controlled, self-sufficient comfort, set between water and natural stone. Made-to-measure design fits the structure to its context, and the artisan hand refines the materials around it: because solar technology deserves a frame worthy of the landscape that hosts it.

Seen from above, the work table looks like a small, industrious town square: open laptops, notebooks dense with notes, coloured charts, cups of coffee, and around them people discussing, pointing, listening, while a standing figure guides the meeting beside the whiteboard. Light enters through the great geometric-paned window and lays the group's shadows across the pale floor. It is the image of the moment when every project truly begins: the consultation, the exchange, the translation of desires into drawings and measurements. Even bespoke marble working starts here, not at the block of stone: it starts with listening. The Michelessi method for its Dubai projects follows exactly this path: a personalised consultation, a design developed around your needs, a faithful preview before anything is built. Because Italian craftsmanship is not only skilled hands: it is also the time devoted to understanding, together, what shape your dream will take.