Two founders. Two disciplines. One team, in Dubai.

Borco is a founder-led studio, built on a simple conviction: the company should be arranged around the client, not the other way around. Monica leads the design. Diego leads the business. Both are present from the first briefing to the last site visit, and the studio reshapes itself, project by project, to the people it is working for.

Monica trained inside a design studio and learned the craft from the drawing board outward — material, proportion, light, the hundred small decisions that give a room its quiet. Diego came in from the client’s chair, having run and commissioned projects across hospitality and development. Behind them sits a studio team of designers, draughtspeople, and project managers; but Monica and Diego lead every project themselves, from start to finish.

Hospitality

Most of what we do is hospitality — restaurants, bars, hotel F&B, and the quieter moments inside hotels. We design rooms that guests remember and operators can actually run: a kitchen pass that works at full covers, a banquette that reads well and wears well, a bar that a bartender can love. The job is to balance atmosphere against operation, and we spend most of the project holding that line.

Residential

We take on a select number of private houses and apartments a year, for clients who want the same level of care applied to where they live. The hours per square metre are often greater. It is the most personal work we do, and the work where the founder-led model matters most.