Furniture for Soma Bay, made on the same coast
ASK Studio makes bespoke furniture — river and dining tables, outdoor pieces, screens, doors and whole interiors in cast resin, rare wood and bamboo — by hand on Egypt's Red Sea coast, and delivers and installs it at Somabay. No overseas freight, no stock, no middleman: an atelier on your own coast, building one piece at a time for a specific room, terrace or lobby.
The atelier on your coast
Most fine furniture reaches Soma Bay the long way: specified from a catalogue abroad, freighted through a port, and serviced — if it is serviced at all — from a city hours away. We work the short way. Our workshop stands on the Red Sea coast, where every piece is cast, cut and finished by hand, and Somabay's villas, lagoons and hotels are our home conditions rather than a distant delivery address. As we put it to hospitality clients: salt air is a design input, not a surprise.
That geography changes what ordering feels like. We survey on site — measuring your room or terrace and reading its light before anything is drawn. A finished piece travels by road, crated and insured, with no border, customs file or sea freight in the way. And after delivery the maker stays nearby: cast resin is a sealed, serviceable surface, and the workshop that poured it can re-polish or refinish it years later. Our care and maintenance specification — the same document we issue with every piece — sets out exactly what that means in practice.
Built for this exact climate
A table that lives at Soma Bay leads a demanding life: hard vertical sun, salt in the air, and rooms that swing between deep air-conditioning and forty-degree terraces. Furniture made for milder places shows it within a season or two. Ours is engineered for this coast from the first decision.
- Rested timber. Whole flitches are air-seasoned for years, never kiln-forced, so the wood has done most of its moving before it becomes a table — and stays calm through AC-to-outdoors swings.
- A single deep cast. The resin is poured in one degassed session and cured slowly — roughly three weeks before the first cut — locking the wood into a stable, non-porous matrix.
- UV-inhibited resin systems. We hand-select resins with UV inhibitors and steer tint and finish choices for strong light; no resin is fully sunproof, so we are honest about siting too.
- Weather-treated outdoor materials. Terrace and deck pieces are built in treated wood and bamboo, made for sun and salt air.
The full method is on the craft page, and our care guide covers daily life with a resin piece — coastal light included.
For villas and residences at Somabay
The pieces owners order for Soma Bay homes are the quiet centres of bright rooms and the objects a terrace is arranged around:
- River and dining tables — a single live-edge flitch with a resin seam tinted to your room; see river tables, explained and the full range.
- Coffee, side and console pieces — including pedestal tables like Strata, which was built by the atelier and photographed on a Red Sea pool terrace like the ones it was made for.
- Doors, screens and feature walls — backlit resin and figured wood for entrances and transitions; see walls and doors.
- Terrace and outdoor pieces — daybeds, low tables and loungers in weather-treated wood and bamboo.
Every piece is drawn around your actual space — dimensions, doorways, the direction of the afternoon light — and approved from measured drawings and a physical sample pour before we build.
For the destination's hotels, restaurants and marina
For operators and their FF&E teams we run a dedicated hospitality and contract practice: communal and bar tables engineered for daily public use, reception desks with backlit resin faces, feature walls, and outdoor pieces built for salt air and a thousand touches a day. The process is the one your fit-out schedule expects — site survey, sample pours and material boards, dimensioned shop drawings for sign-off, then phased production and installation around your calendar.
Two documents are yours before a single conversation: the one-page capability summary — what we build, how we work, materials and lead times on a single sheet — and the care and maintenance spec that ships with every piece. For vessels at the marina, cast resin's salt-resistance and our joinery travel well; see yacht furniture.
How an order works at Soma Bay
An order runs six to twelve weeks from approved drawings — most of that is the resin curing at its own pace, which we will not rush. The difference the coast makes is everything around that window: the survey happens at your villa rather than over a call; you judge the sample pour in your own light; and once the piece is finished, delivery is a crated, insured road journey measured in days, not an overseas leg measured in weeks. Installation is by our team, and the terms — staged payment, insured delivery — are set out plainly in your quote. There is no price list; each piece is quoted to its drawing, and what a river table costs explains the drivers honestly.
From the catalogue
Pieces from the atelier in this direction — each made to order, each with its own page.
Strata
Live-edge wood in Red Sea turquoise — built by the atelier, at home beside a pool.
Meridian
Bamboo and weather-treated wood — made for terraces, sun and salt air.
See the catalogue → · Each piece is one of a kind, priced on request — the honest cost breakdown is in what a river table costs.
Common questions
Do you deliver and install furniture at Somabay?
Yes — and without a border in the way. The atelier is on Egypt's Red Sea coast, so a finished piece travels to Soma Bay by road, crated and insured, and is installed by our team. No international freight, no customs, no shipping lead time measured in weeks.
Can you visit my villa at Soma Bay before I order?
Yes. We survey on site in Egypt — we measure the room or terrace, photograph the light through the day where it matters, and agree the intent before anything is drawn. You approve measured drawings and a physical sample pour before we build.
Will resin and wood furniture survive outdoors by the sea?
Our workshop stands on the same coast, so salt air is a design input, not a surprise. Outdoor pieces are built in weather-treated wood and bamboo; resin surfaces are sealed, non-porous and cast with UV-inhibited systems — though no resin is fully sunproof, so we steer siting and finishes for pieces that live in strong light. A care and maintenance spec ships with every piece.
Do you work with hotels and restaurants at Somabay?
Yes — hospitality and contract work is a dedicated practice: communal and bar tables, reception desks with backlit resin faces, feature walls and outdoor pieces, built to an FF&E process with drawings for sign-off, physical material samples and phased installation around your fit-out calendar.
How long does a made-to-order piece take?
Six to twelve weeks from approved drawings. Most of that window is the resin cure — roughly three weeks before the first cut — which can't be rushed without risking the piece. Because Soma Bay is on our own coast, the delivery leg afterwards is days, not the weeks an overseas order adds.
Do you have a showroom at Somabay?
No — we are a single atelier and workshop on the Red Sea coast, and every piece is made to order rather than held in stock. We come to you: on-site surveys, physical sample pours you judge in your own light, and delivery and installation by our team.
Order yours
Every piece is made to order on the Red Sea coast and delivered to Soma Bay by our own team. An order runs six to twelve weeks and begins with a conversation — or a visit to your villa. We reply within two working days.
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