Palm Jumeirah · Dubai · Private Concept
The Obsidian Residence
A house composed the way a still life is composed — black marble, brushed brass, and water held perfectly level against the skyline.
The Obsidian Residence is imagined for the quiet end of a Palm Jumeirah frond: a single-storey pavilion of stone and glass arranged around a 25-metre pool, where every room ends in water, garden, or sky. Nothing shouts. The proportions do the talking — ceiling heights measured to the centimetre, sightlines drawn from the entrance to the horizon, and a material palette restricted to what the light can honour.
The Residence in Numbers
Calm, measured, exact.
Bedrooms
All en suite, garden level
Bathrooms
Plus a pool house shower room
Built Area
Approx. 19,900 sq ft
Plot
With 30 m of private beach frontage
Orientation
Sunset over the Gulf, skyline behind
Spaces
Four rooms, one hour of light.
Every space below is photographed — in this concept — at the moment the house is designed for: the forty minutes after sunset, when the stone is still warm and the city has just switched on.
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The Experience
What the photographs cannot hold.
Light
The house faces west on purpose. Afternoons are shaded and cool; evenings are the performance — sun dropping into the Gulf on one side, the skyline kindling on the other. Inside, no bulb is ever visible. Light arrives washed off stone and ceiling, the way it does in a gallery.
Privacy
Walls, planting and water are layered so the residence is invisible from the beach, the road and the neighbouring plots — yet from inside, every view is open. Staff circulation is fully separate; the house can be full and still feel empty.
Materials
Three materials, honestly finished: black marble, brushed brass, smoked oak. No veneers pretending to be stone, no coatings pretending to be metal. What you touch is what it appears to be — and it is detailed to stay that way for decades.
The Build Standard
JAPAN QUALITY
This concept — and the presentation you are reading — is produced to the standard NOIR TAKUMI brings from Japan to Dubai: precision in every measurement, detail obsessed over rather than approximated, delivery on the day it was promised, and pricing stated in full, up front. The same discipline that would build the house built this page.
Private Enquiry
Begin with a conversation.
This residence is a concept, and concepts are where commissions start. If this standard of presentation is what your own property — or your own brand — deserves, enquiries are received privately by the studio.
Indicative concept price — AED 148,000,000
Enquire via NOIR TAKUMIEnquiries go to NOIR TAKUMI, the studio behind this demonstration — not to a listing agent, because there is no listing. Replies are personal, written, and unhurried.