Craft you can
sit on.

The workshop in its first year — Al Quoz, 2014.

Omar Haddad opened the workshop with one bench and a belief that good sofas deserve a second life.

Omar Haddad opened the workshop in 2014, in a single Al Quoz unit with two benches, a borrowed sewing machine and a simple conviction: a well-made sofa should be rebuilt, not replaced. He had trained under master upholsterers who measured twice and forgave nothing, and he brought their standards with him.

The early years were armchairs carried in by neighbours and café chairs repaired overnight. Word travelled the way it does in Dubai — from one majlis and one restaurant to the next — and the team grew: cutters, sewers and upholsterers who share the same stubbornness about what leaves the workshop.

Today the workshop rebuilds sofas from every corner of the Emirates, but the rule from the first year still stands. If a frame is sound, it deserves new life — and if it isn't, we'll tell you honestly.

Today our team of 9 upholsterers rebuilds sofas for homes, hotels and restaurants across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Umm Al Quwain, using the same hand methods we started with.