Category Archives: re:India

arched Indian sunlight!

19/11/2007 DesignFlute 1 Comment

They think out of box, they think contemporary and they think in Indian context. SJK architects believe in optimizing sun and wind.

a bungalow on a very small space in Mumbai

They don’t advertise it, they haven’t mentioned it but I can’t resist telling you that it is an all women architects’ team!

Shimul Javeri Kadri with her team of talented architects has experimented in novel ways. They have designed a residential building in Chennai where plumbing spaces look like bamboo like jalis (grill). A house in hilly areas of Alibaug is designed as leaves inspired from the leaves strewn around, the curves here follow rain function.

a house in Alibaug inspired by leaves strewn around

box niches with out of box ideas

arched Indian sunlight!

The ethnic interiors, the glass box modern with many Indian features and colours all speak of functional spaces and adopting the negative environment to its positive fullest.

This house in Bengaluru was built on one acre plot, a dirty nala(sewer line), airplanes (airport vicinity) and dreams!

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wrapped geometrical luxury

06/11/2007 DesignFlute 2 Comments

dumroo seat-table

Designer Gunjan Gupta

Dumroo can be a seat or a table. Materials: 35 gauge pure silver, 24 carat gold leaf, oak veneered plywood. Dumroo is a musical instrument used by monkey dancers in streets of India.

She has redefined notion of luxury, borrowing from rich Indian cultural heritage and interpreting it in new stark ways. The Indian craft of silver wrapping is an ancient throne decoration technique.

Ancient thrones wrapped in precious metal and embellished in jewels.

Delhi based Indian interior designer Gunjan Gupta of Studio Wrap has taken the wrapping technique out of its ornate design sphere and created absolute geometric designs which look austere and audacious both. Her forms speak of luxury, craft and designs in one voice.

dining throne

material:35 gauge pure silver, 24 carat gold leaf and Indian hardwood.

eastern recline

The eastern recline – Indian hardwood panels are wrapped around silver panels and has detachable gold back.

artisan as designer at work

She has exhibited at 100% Design in London and has a current project from Swarowski among other things.

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i SEAT

02/11/2007 DesignFlute 2 Comments

Designer Vishal Thakur i SEAT

public seating cum info display system

When I discover talented young Indian designers I feel excited like a child. When I saw this Indore based designer Vishal Thakur’s work I instantly fell for it. For his designs are ‘form follows function’ based and that is something you know I always go for.

I believe that functional and simple designs are much more difficult to make.

Today I want to talk about just one of his designs i- SEAT (prototype).

i-SEAT is a very smart public seating system cum advertising and info display. It is a solution for utilizing spaces for seating without obstructing movement. In designer’s words seating system at public places like transportation hubs and malls often fail to meet the seating space demand at peak times. Large seating spaces require large areas and restrict movement. So the smart i-SEAT.

How it works…

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designs to win

01/11/2007 DesignFlute 1 Comment

designer – Neil Foley Designs

I don’t know where to start from for this incredibly talented young Indian designer, Bangaluru based Neil Foley. He has won red dot award, he has won Elle décor awards, he has won opu…, he has won..- well, well let me just sum up like this – each of his designs are of award winning quality and he has won about 30 + awards in last nine years.

twig-fruit holder

As the name suggests, the design is a stylized version of a twig or a branch. Taking a fruit from the fruit holder is like plucking a fruit from the trees. (Material used: stainless steel, cast aluminium)

drops – paperweight

(material – acrylic)

ripple – vase

(materials used acrylic and aluminium)

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traditional adaptations

29/10/2007 DesignFlute 5 Comments

Designer: Shweta Jain

This Delhi based young designer has her hands full of all kinds of designs. Shweta Jain, the incredibly versatile designer draws her inspiration from various things like musical instruments, a sailboat and mainly rich Indian traditional crafts. She is also into photography. Few of her beautiful and exotic renderings from a huge portfolio…

A CD rack out of wood and glass drawing inspiration from a sailboat.

on the beach – series

who says glamour is black – series

its rich when its India- series

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tippler chair and stacker'd

25/10/2007 DesignFlute 2 Comments

Young Indian designer, Garima Aggarwal based in Ahmedabad is a civil engineer by education and furniture designer in the making.

Her conceptual and sample products talk loud enough to tell us what kind of furniture designer she is in the making!

slide n stack

‘Slide n stack’ is an adjustable shelving system that takes inspiration from bamboo grass. It has movable rods, acrylic shelves and back lit stainless steel panel.

the tippler chair

The inspiration for ‘tippler chair’ is wine glass. Ergonomically designed this chair has won her Edida Elle Décor 07 student’s category award.

stacker’d

Stacker’d is a sustainable design which gets my full votes. Made from corrugated paper, it is light weight and needs no adhesive.

(see her profile here too)