Saint Objets is a French furniture studio in Dubai. We plan and supply the FF&E of a holiday home: sofas, beds, dining, storage, lighting, rugs, window treatments and the loose pieces that finish a room. Everything is made to order in toxic-free, safe materials, on high-performance, hospitality-grade fabrics. Designed in Paris. Crafted in the Emirates. The rugs come from India.
What FF&E Covers
FF&E means furniture, fixtures and equipment. Everything that is not the building. For a holiday home in Dubai the list is short, and it is the whole of what a guest sees and touches.
- Seating and sofas
- Beds and mattresses
- Dining and side tables
- Storage and wardrobes
- Lighting
- Rugs
- Curtains and blinds
- Loose items: occasional chairs, consoles, trays, mirrors and cushions
A short-let property carries an operational layer underneath that. Case goods that take daily handling. Spare linens. Pieces that come through back-to-back stays and frequent cleaning still looking like themselves.
Specification Governs Everything
A holiday home sits between a private residence and a commercial let. The brief for the seating and the beds follows the harder of the two.
- High-performance, hospitality-grade fabrics that clean easily and hold their colour under sun, sand and constant rotation.
- Fire performance to the standard the setting requires, with recognised evidence where the certificate is available for the chosen cloth.
- Toxic-free, safe materials throughout, with low chemical emissions.
Why It Matters Indoors
A Dubai house runs its cooling all year with the windows closed. The air stays still. Guests sleep in it, and the cleaning crew works in it for hours at a time, close to every surface in the room.
So the materials are specified before anything else is drawn. In a sealed interior, what a cloth releases is part of the room.
Made to Order, Sized to the Home
Nothing is held in stock. Nothing is built before it is wanted. There is no importer, no distributor, no warehouse, no ocean crossing before a client has asked for a piece. What would have been lost along that path goes into the piece instead.
Each sofa, bed and table is cut to your floor plan. Furniture takes ten to thirty days, according to the scale of the project, the number of pieces and the availability of the chosen cloth. Rugs take three to five weeks, woven by hand in India by generational artisans with more than sixty years behind them. A rug cannot be hurried. The install date is fixed before the first cut, and the whole house is furnished at once.
The method is set out in full on our holiday home furniture Dubai page. It comes from hospitality work, and from an interior-architecture collaboration with NOYA, brought to a house in constant use.
Frequently asked questions
What does FF&E actually include for a holiday home?
Furniture, fixtures and equipment: the whole interior apart from the building shell. For a holiday home that is the seating, the beds, the tables, the storage, the lighting, the rugs, the window treatments, and the smaller pieces that finish a room.
Does holiday-home FF&E need different fabrics from a normal home?
Yes. A rental turns over week after week, so the seating and the beds sit on high-performance, hospitality-grade fabrics chosen to clean easily and to hold up under sun and wear, with fire performance to the standard the setting requires.
Can Saint Objets supply a full holiday-home scheme, not single pieces?
Yes. We furnish the property as one turnkey scheme, every piece made to order and sized to your floor plan. The install date is agreed at the start and held, so the interior lands coordinated and ready to let.