Private houses
Full interiors. Marble, joinery, lacquer, textile and light, arranged for people who live there.
Practice
Adi Yossef designs interiors. Houses, hospitality rooms, workplaces, and the cabins of aircraft.
The cabins came first, and they set the standard for everything else. A cabin is a room with no spare millimetres, no straight walls and a weight limit. Every surface curves, every kilogram is argued over, and there is no floor area to hide a weak decision behind. What it teaches is that comfort is not a material. It is the profile of the foam, the rake of a backrest, and where the light falls at the third hour.
A house is more forgiving than that. Built to the same standard, it is better than it needed to be.
Hospitality
Rooms that have to work on a Saturday night and still read well at nine on a Tuesday morning.
Workplaces
Offices, meeting rooms and reception, including for the companies that operate aircraft.
Aircraft cabins
Stripped to the airframe and rebuilt. Soft goods, headliner, sidewalls, cabinetry, seating.
Scope
Cabin work is carried out alongside the owner's approved maintenance and design organisations. Design approval, production approval and maintenance approval are three separate things, held by three separate organisations. ADI is an interior design practice and holds none of them, and does not sign an aircraft off.
Privacy, comfort, and flexibility, all within a highly regulated aircraft environment.
Marc Newson, on the Qantas Skybed