Laduree Riyadh Park KSA

Conservatory Salon — Chairs — The Louis XVI medallion-back chair, in solid beech with vert d'eau finish and hand-applied antique gold leaf highlights. For Riyadh Park, the chair was specified with a dual-function clear coat: the same nano-ceramic UV-blocking technology developed for Laysen Valley, plus an additional anti-microbial additive in the topcoat — a response to this location's significantly higher daily guest count and the presence of young children, who make up a larger proportion of Riyadh Park's visitor profile. The blush pink cotton velvet seat pads remain, but are treated with a nano-level stain barrier specifically tested against chocolate, fruit syrup, and carbonated beverages. A discreet chair-side hook, integrated into the rear right leg, provides a place for the shopping bags that accompany so many of this location's guests.

Conservatory Salon — Tables — Custom café tables in solid beech with marble tabletops in Carrara white, echoing the Solitaire specification. However, the Riyadh Park tables are available in both standard and slightly reduced diameters — the smaller tables designed for the narrower spaces along the conservatory glazing and between planters, where traditional café table dimensions would obstruct the flow of guests.

Conservatory Banquette — A serpentine banquette in blush pink cotton velvet winds through the planted areas, its curves following the organic shapes of the garden beds rather than the rectilinear geometry of the architecture. Button-tufted in rhythmic panels, the banquette frame is solid beech in vert d'eau with antique gold beading along the top rail. Its seat depth is the generous Riyadh standard developed at Fayfa, while its curved sections — each radius unique to its position in the garden — required each frame component to be individually templated and hand-fitted on site.

Private Family Salon — An enclosable dining room for family gatherings, furnished with custom dining chairs in the same Louis XVI profile but upholstered entirely in vert d'eau velvet — a departure from the signature blush pink, and a request from the local design team who wished to create a calmer, more unified palette for extended family meals. The family tables are larger than the standard café tables, seating eight, in solid beech with Carrara marble tops.

Patisserie Counter & Retail Wall — The counter façade in solid beech, vert d'eau with gold-leaf paneling. The macaron display arc is angled outward toward the mall concourse, positioned to catch the eye of passing visitors. Integrated LED lighting at 2700K with CRI 97+ ensures the macarons read true to color under the mall's ambient lighting. A double-height retail wall — the tallest of any Ladurée in Riyadh — displays the signature gift boxes, accessible via a brass library ladder on a quiet rail, a functional detail that doubles as a visual signature of the Riyadh Park location.

Conservatory Terrace — Outdoor-Equivalent Seating — Although the conservatory is enclosed, its glass roof and proximity to exterior doors create a microclimate closer to outdoor conditions — direct sun exposure, elevated daytime temperatures, and humidity from the surrounding plantings. The chairs positioned within the sun path are the marine-grade powder-coated aluminum version developed for Laysen Valley, visually identical to the interior beech chairs but engineered to resist UV, heat, and moisture without degradation.

The anti-microbial clear coat was a novel development for Dual Jade's finishing team — a food-safe silver-ion additive dispersed within the nano-ceramic topcoat, tested to inhibit bacterial colony growth by 99.9% on high-touch surfaces. Applied to every interior chair frame, backrest, and armrest.

The shopping bag hook was integrated into the chair design through a collaboration between Dual Jade's engineering team and Ladurée's Riyadh operations manager, who identified the need after observing guests balancing large shopping bags on their laps or on the floor beside their tables. The hook is cast in solid brass with an antique gold finish, matching the chair's carved highlights, and is positioned so as to be invisible from the front.

The serpentine banquette represented a significant technical challenge: no two curves share the same radius, meaning each frame section — every curved top rail, every bentwood backrest panel, every upholstered seat base — was individually templated, cut, assembled, and upholstered. The tufting pattern, however, maintains consistent spacing across every curve, a feat of upholstery engineering that required the button positions to be calculated individually and plotted on a three-dimensional digital model before a single stitch was made.

The family salon's all-vert d'eau velvet upholstery required the development of a new fabric specification: a heavyweight cotton velvet in precisely the same green as the painted woodwork — a notoriously difficult color to achieve in textile due to the differing light absorption of fibre versus painted timber. Six dye lots were rejected before achieving a Delta E of less than 1.0 against the vert d'eau paint standard.

The retail wall library ladder was custom-fabricated in aged brass, its rail extending the full height of the double-height wall. The ladder's quiet-glide mechanism was developed with a bespoke polymer wheel that rolls silently — a small detail, but one that preserves the Ladurée atmosphere of quiet refinement even as staff access the upper shelves during service hours.