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“A LONG WEEKEND IN DUBAI”ACT 1 · THE TENTH ASK

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DAY 1The day begins with a check-in at Form Hotel, an unconventional boutique property in the emerging Al Jadaf and Culture Village neighbourhood, where the founder's brief was to offer thoughtful design to people who've worked for their money and don't want to waste it on things they don't need.

DAY 2The morning belongs to Business Bay: ME Dubai by Meliá, the only hotel in the world to have had both its architecture and interiors designed by the late Dame Zaha Hadid, is worth visiting for its extraordinary interior alone — 4,544 pieces of differently shaped glass were required to build The Opus, the mixed-use structure of which it forms a part.

DAY 3The final morning is given over to Tashkeel in the residential Nad Al Sheba neighbourhood, the design incubator established in 2008 by Lateefa bint Maktoum where limited-edition pieces — tables of salts and minerals, lamps of coffee, light fixtures of horse hair — emerge from the Tanween programme and are made available for purchase through the organisation.

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