Folks Café
Al Zaher Interiors successfully executed the complete interior design and fit-out for Folks Café, creating a warm and inviting ambiance that blends modern aesthetics with a cozy café atmosphere. The project focused on optimizing spatial flow, incorporating natural textures, and using ambient lighting to enhance comfort and social interaction. Earthy tones, wooden finishes, and contemporary furniture were thoughtfully combined to establish a relaxed yet stylish environment ideal for casual dining and gatherings. From concept design to final detailing, Al Zaher Interiors ensured every element contributed to an authentic and memorable café experience, reflecting the brand’s friendly and welcoming identity.
Project Name: Folks Café
Category: Commercial
Work Type: Interior Design
Design in Details
In design, we bring characteristics of the natural world into built spaces, such as water, greenery, and natural light, or elements like wood and stone. Encouraging the use of natural systems and processes in design allows for exposure to nature, and in turn, these design approaches improve health and wellbeing. There are a number of possible benefits, including reduced heart rate variability and pulse rates, decreased blood pressure, and increased activity in our nervous systems, to name a few.
Over time, our connections to the natural world diverged in parallel with technological developments. Advances in the 19th and 20th centuries fundamentally changed how people interact with nature. Sheltered from the elements, we spent more and more time indoors. Today, the majority of people spend almost 80-90% of their time indoors, moving between their homes and workplaces. As interior designers embrace biophilia.
[30m2]
bedroom
[22m2]
bathroom
[28m2]
workspace
[15m2]
kitchen area
Incredible Result
Establishing multi-sensory experiences, we can design interiors that resonate across ages and demographics. These rooms and spaces connects us to nature as a proven way to inspire us, boost our productivity, and create greater well-being. Beyond these benefits, by reducing stress and enhancing creativity, we can also expedite healing. In our increasingly urbanized cities, biophilia advocates a more humanistic approach to design. The result is biophilic interiors that celebrate how we live, work and learn with nature. The term translates to ‘the love of living things’ in ancient Greek (philia = the love of / inclination towards), and was used by German-born American psychoanalyst Erich Fromm in The Anatomy of Human Destru ctiveness (1973).
