The house designer

Dudu Gabai - the house designer of GAVRIEL

Gavriel can look different at every event. Dudu takes the vision, the style and the space, and turns them into a complete world built for one evening.

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Symmetrical view of the Hangar, with long tables of candelabras and magenta flowers leading to a stage under hanging greenery

The approach

No two events should look the same.

At GAVRIEL, design does not start from a ready-made package. It starts with the people, the space and the feeling they want to create. As the house designer, Dudu knows the Hangar, the Shulhan and the Bustan in depth, and what each of them allows: from an intimate chuppah over the water to the complete transformation of a whole venue.

A man in a dark suit arranging crystal glasses on an event table decorated with magenta calla lilies and gold candles

The designer

Dudu Gabai

House designer at GAVRIEL

Dudu Gabai is the house designer at Gavriel. He knows the three venues from the inside, the light at every hour, the heights, what each space allows, and builds a different visual world in them for every event.

The work begins with a meeting: what the event should feel like, which style is close to the couple, and how the evening will run. From there the concept takes shape, from colours and materials through chuppah, table, flowers, lighting, furniture and built elements, all the way to the evening itself.

The range is wide: from a wedding that turned the Hangar into a garden to a bar mitzvah with clouds and lasers. What they share is that no event looks like the one before.

Dudu on Instagram

Flagship project

Eden Fines and Osher Cohen: a Hangar turned into a garden

One evening, several worlds. A reception in the courtyard around a dark pool, a flower-covered chuppah between two pools, and dinner in a Hangar styled as a garden: a tree rising from the centre of a horseshoe table, mint-green trellis arches and crystal chandeliers.

The passage between outdoors, dinner, lounge and dance floor is the work itself. Each part of the evening had a place and a character of its own, without guests ever leaving the complex.

See the full event

Symmetrical wide view of a large tree rising from a horseshoe-shaped green table between two illuminated trellis arches

Close-up of a mossy centerpiece with pink hydrangea, white lilies and scabiosa beside votive candles and folded napkins

Four worlds

From the courtyard to the dance floor

Photographs from the production, by chapter of the evening.

The courtyard

Curved white colonnaded building around a cobbled courtyard with a striped dome bar, a tufted round sofa and wooden decks

Pink scalloped umbrella and striped dome pavilion across a black pool, with a wooden lounge deck and an olive tree

Round tufted white sofa with floral cushions and orchid side tables beside a black pool, framed by magenta bougainvillea

The chuppah

Flower-covered white lattice chuppah against an arched stone wall with palm trees, light beams and a teal night sky

Drone view of a symmetrical garden ceremony, white chairs on lawn along an aisle to a floral chuppah between two pools

Symmetrical wide view of a ceremony: aisle, chairs and flower borders lead to a floral chuppah between arched facades

Dinner

Large faux tree rising from a moss-green horseshoe table with pink blooms, black chairs and mint lattice arches at the Hangar

Pink and purple floral arrangements in silver urns on white-clothed tables with white woven chairs, in shallow focus

The bar and the dance floor

Long lounge counter with white armchairs, bottles and red flowers before a copper wall of illuminated round recesses

High-angle view of long bar counters with cube stools, round copper-topped tables, ivory chairs and small red flowers

Night view of an empty dance floor under a canopy of globe lights, with a red and orange LED screen behind the DJ stage

Selected works

Two design languages, one house

A wedding that turned the Hangar into a garden, and a bar mitzvah that turned it into a club with clouds and lasers. Shown here are the works documented in the press with a design credit to Dudu.

All real events

Three venues

Three venues. Endless design possibilities.

The question here is not what each venue has, but what can be built in it.

Hangar
Scale, architecture, transformation
1,400 sq m beneath an 11-metre ceiling: a space that can stay industrial and bare, or hold a complete world, from a garden to a club. The height allows ceilings, built elements and lighting on a scale found nowhere else.
Explore Hangar
Shulhan
Hospitality, tables, light and detail
A chuppah over the water, long tables and open kitchens. Here the design works up close: the arrangement on the table, the candles, the materials you touch.
Explore Shulhan
Bustan
Nature, pool, from day into night
2,800 sq m of garden, pool and trees. An event that begins at golden hour and continues into the night under lights: here the design changes with the light, and weaves the built into the natural.
Explore Bustan

From vision to space

How the design of an evening takes shape

Vision. Listening to what the event should feel like.

Concept. Developing a visual world: colours, materials and direction.

Space. Fitting the idea to the venue and to the way the evening runs.

Detail. From chuppah and table to lighting, flowers, furniture and built elements.

Event. All the parts come together as one experience.

Details

The big wow and the precision in detail

Chuppahs, tables, flowers, light, furniture and ceilings, from Dudu's documented works at Gavriel.

Chuppahs and arches

Tables and flowers

Light and candles

Furniture and built elements

Ceilings and party

Instagram

More works, details and the building process

Dudu shares his work, at Gavriel and beyond, on his Instagram account. There you also see the way there: the structures before the flowers, the space before the guests.

Dudu on Instagram