Now our designers are weaving the magic of their zari borders and unique materials on walls, furniture and furnishings in your favourite hotels, bars and restaurants and homes too.
If you thought India’s top designers would be content with just making exclusive garments, here’s news for you. Now our designers are weaving the magic of their zari borders and unique materials on walls, furniture and furnishings in your favourite hotels, bars and restaurants and homes too.
Fashion designer Abraham and Thakore, popularly known as A&T, for instance, are diversifying their label. Working for their Japanese clientele for quiet some time now, creating home furnishing lines, A&T home furnishings is slowly finding a place.
Abraham says, “We have been doing home furnishings for our Japanese clients. Our sensibility was clean, understated and contemporary. Who says we should be limiting ourselves only to making fashionable outfits? Furnishings is a big market and we trying to tap that.”
Designer Rohit Bal’s dining restaurants in Delhi and Mumbai echoes fashion guru’s signature design values — more is less. The eatery feels like Bal’s kingdom, as it is festooned by handcrafted mirrors with peacocks, lotuses and the tree of life motifs.
Bal says, “My restaurant is also an extension of my personality and it speaks about my sensibilities. People will walk in with an expectation of seeing a piece of Rohit Bal in the deco. Therefore I’m just doing what a good businessman is supposed to do. I consider design as an art form, which can be reflected into anything, be it clothes or interiors.”
Designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee recently announced his tie-up with a luxury villas line in Alibaug, which will feature exclusive, limited edition villas designed by him. “ It’s all about being able to translate your design aesthetic into various forms,” he explains.
Similarly, designer Anuj Sharma wants to try his hand in multi-utility furniture. He says, “I want to utilise my time to concentrate on other aspects of designing like furniture from waste materials like paper, tins which can be of multi-utility and more.”
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