The A + The Y
Ali Alnajjar
I’m a multidisciplinary designer and storyteller with over 15 years of experience in interior design, visual merchandising, textile design, and furniture design.
Obsessed with trinkets and fashion. You will always find me spending money because I have no self control.
For me, design is never just a job — it’s a passion. I love seeing beautiful, functional environments and pieces come to life, and more importantly, seeing how they make people feel. Watching someone smile because a space works and looks incredible is what drives me.
I naturally lean toward expressive, layered design.
My design motto?
There’s no such thing as too much.
Yara AlSamahiji
The introvert. The artist. The one obsessing over the 2 cm no one else noticed.
I have a passion for dine arts and that same obsession follows me into design. I like the little things: proportions, textures, odd details and moving something slightly until suddenly everything works.
Ali finds this mildly infuriating. I find it necessary.
I love walking into a space and immediately learning a little something about the person who lives there. Give me personality, quirks, anything but a space that could belong to absolutely anyone.
I believe there’s a very fine line between just enough and okay, now we’ve lost the plot.
My design motto?
Telling Ali, “It is too much.”