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North East interior design firm to redevelop luxury Baghdad hotel

A Jesmond based interior design firm has won its share of a multi million pound redevelopment project in Baghdad.

Brandling Park Interior Design (BPID) are to completely redesign a luxurious five star hotel as part of the wider regeneration of the war torn city.

Owner of the hotel Haider Al Saffar and his family were ousted from Iraq during the rule of Saddam Hussein, their assets were seized under the Hussein regime and only reinstated upon his demise.

After six months of constant communication with Haider Al Saffar, BPID completed computer aided designs for the complete redesign of the derelict hotel, including its three restaurants, function rooms, reception areas and swimming pools.

Due to the instability in the region the Jesmond based team were advised not to travel the 6,000 miles to the Iraqi capital, which threw up a number of challenges.

George Bond, founder of BPID,said: “I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to play a small part in rebuilding the city of Baghdad.

“Baghdad remains a very unstable city, and because of this, the advice has been not to visit. We usually try and spend as much time as we can at the location being designed, so this presented a whole new set of challenges.

“Instead, we made use of our in-house technology to complete detailed technical designs, which are currently being replicated for us by a partner company on the ground in Iraq.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .