More than 25 years after opening its gilded doors, Dubai’s most iconic hotel, Jumeirah Burj Al Arab, is closing for restoration works.
During the planned 18-month closure, the hotel’s distinctive interiors will be enhanced, preserved and upgraded by celebrated French interior architect Tristan Auer, who’s reimagined his fair share of hotel greats, from the Carlton Cannes to Paris’s Hôtel de Crillon.
But how, exactly, do you reinterpret an icon? “It’s kind of a science,” he tells…

