India Art n Design - Creativity, Education & Business

Punctuating a monochrome approach with striking graphics, art, pin-up panels, ceiling elements and highlight furniture, DPA defines its architectural and design sensibilities with a touch of simplicity and élan.

As Architect and President of the company, Sonali Bhagwati informs, “The design language found its take-off points from the near-complete façade and the white, grey and black colour of Alucobond and glass; as much as from the existing haphazard structural elements on the floor plate.”

Despite being flanked by prominent garment and jewellery stores in an upscale shopping district of Bhelupur, Benaras, designer boutique Gazal’s Panache stands out for its striking monochromatic palette, interior detailing and lattice-work influenced by the famous Benarasi weave, albeit in a contemporary avatar…

‘Chaos’ and ‘confinement’: ‘intense emotions’ and ‘intimacy’ is the essence that characterizes the design of this bar and restaurant – Kinoya in Montreal, Canada. Implementing this mindset into a pulsating space, interior designer, Jean de Lessard plays upon the need for community interaction to emulate in his design the primary spirit, function and aesthetics of the izakaya, where he plays with spatial configuration exploring design intimacy in relationships via different ways of occupying a space.

When interior design firm Ippolito Fleitz were presented with a 400 sq. m. loft space in the former army barracks in Esslingen, south of Germany, to be transformed into a home for a couple and their three kids, they zeroed in on an open plan that would aesthetically be differentiated into the mandatory zones of living, dining, retiring etc.

The Alen 68 motor yacht by renowned yacht design and construction company, Allen Yacht has just been launched in Istanbul, Turkey. Designed by Foster+Partners, the motor yacht uniquely combines the elegant social spaces of a cruising yacht with the fun of a day boat.

An Indian family has sought the services of Mexican architects Arquitectura en Movimiento Workshop to design 3 duplexes in their 6-storied fit-out in central Mumbai.

Hotel design, loft, space planning, small spaces, interior design, hospitality design, boutique hotel, pull-out furniture

Emmanuelle Moureaux created “thin-thin-thin” a narrative and simultaneous global art installation for UNIQLO’s flagship stores in six countries for their special autumn item, ‘extra-fine merino’…

Meeting the exacting demands of a highly apropos lighting concept for the subterranean extension to the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, lighting consultants Zumtobel have realised a custom-made lighting solution together with architects schneider+schumacher and lighting designers from LichtKunstLicht.

Monotony and complexity have no room in Italian cuisine and so it is, with the design of this restaurant in New Delhi that serves it. The design team of Sumeet Nath and Aanchal Chaudhary has tastefully carved out a setting for Ristorante Prego that essentially blends variety with simplicity.

Sinuousness and a monochromatic palette seem to be taking almost every architect/ designer’s fancy as he plays with creating distinctive environments with fluid forms. Austria-based SYN Architecture proved no different in the renovation exercise of the Quique clothing store in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Samir Raut and Amit Mayekar of Studio Eight Twentythree design the Birdsong Café to respond to the vocabulary of the surrounding heritage precinct in suburban Mumbai…

Ru temple architects, Alexander Kudimov and Daria Butahina design a compact world for a brother-sister duo, with transformable and dynamic recreational areas, while the work areas remain anchored.