Nestlé Iraq – New Office in Erbil: Design, Fit-Out & Furniture

Project overview

The project reimagines Nestlé's branch office in Erbil as a single, contemporary floor plate. The brief: express Nestlé's optimistic, modern brand world while drawing the architecture directly from the heritage of Erbil – tactile, warm, locally grounded and built for the way people work today.

CMS GROUP is responsible for the design concept, the full interior fit-out and the furniture package, coordinated through one team from concept to handover.

Design visualizations

The concept: Erbil heritage, Nestlé modern

Three concept pillars shape every space: heritage carving, fluid lines and a warm palette – with Nestlé blue used as a precise accent rather than a field colour.

Fluid lines – the Tigris

Over the meeting table, a sculpted ceiling element in Nestlé-blue acoustic felt flows across the white plane like water finding its course, traced by a warm cove light – the Tigris, abstracted.

The wavy timber ceiling

Warm oak slats peel off the wall and curl across the ceiling in one continuous wave, unifying open desks and corridors while softening acoustics.

Erbil Citadel

Mud-brick walls, weathered reliefs and Kurdish geometric patterns are reinterpreted as carved feature walls: a cuneiform-inspired relief at reception and the citadel skyline pressed into plaster behind the brand in the meeting room.

The spaces

• Reception with carved heritage relief beneath a flowing ceiling
• Pantry / coffee corner with warm-wood bar, banquette seating and blue zellige-style tile (about 10–12 seats)
• Open workstations along the glazed façade with acoustic screens and a curved planted divider
• Manager office and two medium meeting rooms (4–6 persons) with framed glass partitions
• Quiet rooms / focus pods with sit-stand desks and upholstered acoustic lining
• Lactation room, storage with modular racking and washrooms detailed to front-of-house standard

Companies involved

Site progress