Herengracht apartment
2025A canal-house apartment returned to its 18th-century proportions, with a full-height oak library and bronze-framed doors made in the atelier.
Interior architecture — Amsterdam
Rooms that hold their silence.
Atelier Noor composes interiors in oak, stone and light — designed slowly, built by our own makers, finished to be lived in for decades.
The practice
We take few commissions and give each one time — the one material that cannot be specified.
Founded in 2011, the atelier works on a handful of houses each year. Every drawing is made in-house, every piece of joinery leaves our own workshop, and nothing is finished until it feels inevitable in the room.
Vondelpark townhouse
2024Five floors reorganised around a single walnut stair. Travertine kitchen, linen-wrapped walls, and daylight pulled deep into the plan.
Villa Bergen
2023A coastal villa furnished almost entirely from one Douglas fir stock — floors, tables, wardrobes — so the whole house shares a single grain.
The atelier
Drawn upstairs, made downstairs.
Our studio and workshop share one building on the Voorbeeldgracht. The maker who cuts the joint sat in the room when it was drawn — which is why the joint is right.
- Founded
- 2011
- People
- Eight makers
- Commissions per year
- Five, at most
What we take on
Three ways of working.
Interior architecture
Complete interiors for houses and apartments — plan, light, materials and detail, drawn to millimetres and followed to the last hinge.
Bespoke furniture & joinery
Single pieces and full rooms of joinery — libraries, kitchens, stairs — made in our own workshop from timber we select ourselves.
Art & object curation
The last layer: ceramics, textiles and works on paper chosen with the client, so the house ends personal rather than styled.
They said no to half of what we asked for — and the house is better for every refusal.
E. & J. van der Meer
Commissions
Open for autumn 2026.
Write to us about your house — where it is, what it wants to become. We respond to every serious enquiry within a week, and we say honestly whether we are the right atelier for it.