Manama / Offices & workplaces
One Bahrain Bay executive floor was finished in white marble, steel, wood and glass. A Seef finance floor puts color on its desk screens. Your Manama office can choose either look, or its own.
Since 1 January 2026, Bahrain’s Fire & Life Safety Code has asked high-rise facility managers to keep extinguishers, call points and detectors clear. This page is for whoever holds your floor’s wall survey. It is also for the HR lead with a team photo in mind for reception, and the designer drawing a curving headquarters.
PaletteMomento is a hand-painting studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China, supplying trade buyers worldwide. Each canvas is painted by hand on premium linen from your references, and you approve daylight photos of every finished canvas before anything ships. Your team sets the look, and three checks then set each canvas before its palette is signed off. Its outline leaves the fire equipment clear, anyone recognizable in it has agreed to be shown, and on a curving wall it fits one straight section.
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01 / What Manama offices show
Two finance floors with a published district, and one fashion label’s headquarters concept, show three different looks, not a rule for each district.
| District and kind of company | What the published project shows |
|---|---|
Bahrain Bay, an investment firm A published interior for its reception lobbies and executive floor. The project is undated. | White marble, steel, wood and glass.Glass panels sit beside contemporary mashrabiya screens. The list of materials stays short and restrained. |
Seef, a global financial-services firm An office refit completed in 2025 and published by its fit-out contractor. | Fabric, moss walls and color at the desks.Fabric covers walls and ceilings, with acoustic panels and wood-and-glass partitions carrying mashrabiya art. Moss walls house the media screens. Colorful privacy screens sit at the desks, and there is a games room. |
Manama (district not published), a local luxury womenswear label The LK Nine headquarters concept, shown in design development by DZ Design in early 2026. | Flow and gentle curves.The plan sets out a café-style reception lounge, a VIP arrival zone, boardrooms and a fabric showroom. Instead of rigid zones, the design is built on flow, and its walls curve gently. |
Both finance offices used a mashrabiya-style screen. One kept to a short list of marble, steel, wood and glass, while the other added moss walls around its media screens and colorful privacy screens at the desks. The fashion label’s concept is built on flow and curves.
Two finance firms in two districts each used a mashrabiya-style screen, then gave different answers on color. Your office can take either answer, or a third one. Your brief sets the four things listed here, and that is what the painter paints.
02 / Clear the fire equipment
Corridor, lift-lobby and reception walls in a Manama high-rise can carry fire equipment. The Bahrain Fire & Life Safety Code v1.0 comes from the General Directorate of Civil Defence, part of the Ministry of Interior. It was published on 2 October 2025 and has been in force since 1 January 2026.
In Table G.01-T11, the code makes the building’s facility management company responsible for keeping extinguishers unobstructed (item 6.iii). Detectors and manual call points must be free of obstruction too (item 7.iv). Section 3.16.1 and Table G.01-T14, item 1.ii, apply these duties to every high-rise building.
Your wall survey marks every extinguisher, manual call point and detector on these walls. Ask the building’s facility manager what clearance they want around each one. Each canvas then gets a width, height and position inside those clearances. A canvas that covers a device may have to come down, because the code makes the building’s facility management company keep these devices clear.
These fire-equipment items do not mention artwork, so this sizing method is our suggestion. The building’s facility manager decides the clearance.
Illustrative numbers, not a code clearance. The building’s facility manager sets each gap, and the canvas size follows from them.
03 / Check who appears
A team photo, a client event or a founder’s family can make a warm canvas for a Manama office. Bahrain’s copyright law has a rule on pictures of people. It is Article 70 of Law No. (22) of 2006, amended by Laws 12/2008, 3/2011 and 5/2014.
The article says whoever made a picture of a person may not display it without that person’s permission. The article lists exceptions, including people with an official or public role or of local or international renown, and events that took place in public. Even then, showing the picture must not harm their honor, reputation or standing.
Ask your legal team how this applies to a painted canvas hung at work. The Arabic text in the Official Gazette is the official one. The English translation that the Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission published in May 2024 is guidance only.
Each colleague agrees first. Otherwise, the painter can make them unrecognizable.
The same step applies. Your team gathers each person’s agreement before the brief reaches us.
The exception applies only where the picture cannot harm their standing. Your approver checks how each one is shown.
Figures from behind, people at a distance, or a scene without people. Choose this route when gathering everyone’s agreement is hard.
Before a canvas with recognizable people is briefed, your workplace or HR team confirms that each person agrees to be displayed at work. If that is hard to arrange, you can choose a composition without recognizable faces. For someone with an official or public role, your approver checks how that person is shown. The permissions stay with your team, and we do not collect, check or hold them.
04 / Fit the curve
LK Nine is a Manama headquarters concept for a local luxury womenswear label, shown in design development by DZ Design in early 2026. Its design page says the walls curve gently. On the ground floor, curved elements guide people through the space.
A flat stretched canvas needs a straight section of wall to sit flush. A short section suits a tall vertical canvas, and a long section suits a long horizontal one. On a curving plan like this, we suggest measuring the straight sections first, then choosing a format that fits inside each. Agree the fixing method with your fit-out contractor before the final wall finishes go on.
That sizing and timing is our recommendation, because the design page says nothing about artwork. Agree the hanging method with your fit-out contractor before the final finishes go on.
Two catalog formats for two lengths of straight wall. Catalog paintings, not work for any Manama project.
On a curving wall, these three lines on your elevation decide each canvas. If you want a canvas that follows the curve itself, tell us your requirement and we confirm in the quote what we can do.
05 / Your quote
Your answer shapes each line of the quote. A marked wall sets a size, a curving wall sets a format, and a canvas with people needs its permissions settled before the brief.
06 / Details on a marked floor
We suggest yes, even though the Bahrain Fire & Life Safety Code items behind the high-rise facility duty name extinguishers, detectors and manual call points, not hose-reel cabinets. A hose-reel door has to swing open, so mark its swing on the survey as well as its face, and we keep the canvas edge outside it. Tell us the gap the building’s facility manager asks for, and we size the canvas to it.
In a Manama high-rise, keep them in a lockable room on your floor or your own store room, not in a corridor. Table G.01-T11 of Bahrain’s Fire & Life Safety Code asks high-rise facility managers to keep corridors, stairs and exits free of boxes and decoration items. So the cases, and the canvases once unpacked, should not wait in an exit route while the art is hung.
Article 70 of Bahrain’s Law No. (22) of 2006 has an exception for official or public figures. Your legal team can say whether it also covers the staff and guests who can be recognized in the same photo. If you prefer, the painter can leave those people unrecognizable.
Before anything ships to Manama, you approve daylight photos of every finished canvas, so whoever confirmed the permissions can check how each person is shown. They can also check that figures meant to stay unrecognizable really are. The full studio process is on how we paint.
Yes, a canvas can repeat one screen color as an accent. Send the screen color with your reference, and the painter mixes it on the palette against it. You then check that accent in the daylight photos of the finished canvas.
Yes: for a Manama wall that gains a call point, we can paint a new canvas at the new width and height from the same reference. It is quoted as a new order. It will match the first closely but never exactly, because each canvas is painted by hand. Send us the new clear width and height from the building’s facility manager.
Call points, curves and faces
Which wall is it, and will anyone recognizable be in the picture? Mention both in your first WhatsApp message.
Our fastest way to discuss your schedule and price. The written quote follows by email for your records.
WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply.
Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.
support@palettemomento.comOr send your schedule and images through our quote form.