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If you’d followed the winding brick road towards Shakti Mills last night, you would’ve been witness to the design elite clicking heels and clinking glasses at the ID Satellite street party. Huddled together, 5 stores and a restaurant launched the Art and Design Trail with panel discussions, breathtaking artwork and installations, plates of food and flowing alcohol.

All roads led to Mehrauli as the Delhi’s elite welcomed the launch of Ralph Lauren Home. Playing the gracious host, Seetu Kohli had put together an elaborate affair, inviting the city’s biggest architects, interior designers, socialites and fashion clan.We spotted Arun Balan with Supraja Rao of Design House, while the dapper Ali Baldiwala posed for photographs with Elle Decor’s Pramiti Madhavji. Also spotted were designers Falguni and Shane Peacock, Dipen Gada and JJ Valaya.Sonam Kalra’s fusion jazz band had guests on their feet the entire night. This was one bash you shouldn’t have missed.

The Good Earth store at Raghuvanshi mills, Mumbai transformed itself into a contemporary take on the Silk Route, for the launch of The Nilaya Salon. In association with ELLE DECOR India and Asian Paints, the event gathered the design elite for the unveiling of Nilaya’s special collection of wallpapers designed by Good Earth. Inspired by the landscapes of the ancient trade roads, the wallpapers feature prints from the roses at Charbagh and fantastical elements from Xanadu and Palmyra. Designer Pavitra Rajaram integrated the various prints into the six room salon, which will be on permanent display at the store. Exclusively for the event in association with ELLE DECOR last evening, a mint green bathroom setup by Neterwala & Aibara, a living room display by Shroffleon and vertical bedrooms in The 9 Room House by Note-D accompanied the salon highlighting the Silk Route range.While guests explored grandeur elements in the salon and the various creative setups, cocktails flowed from The Tasting Room, along with scrumptious cheese platters and appetisers. If your invite got lost in the mail, you may have missed the setups, but you can visit the gorgeous salon at the store for some decor inspiration. Websites:www.goodearth.in

On June 30, 2017, Kohler launched its first ever Experience Center in the country – a 10,000 sq ft space in Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi envisioned by local design firm Studio Lotus. The city’s elite from the design fraternity gathered to celebrate the novel space housing fully functioning displays of the brand’s global product line.
What caught everyone’s attention were the seven distinct powder room suites imagined by eminent names in the industry that showcased the various ways you could style your luxe bathroom.
While CCBA’s Zen Style bathroom by Kohler Bold Design Awards 2016 John Michael Kohler Lifetime Achievement Award winner Christopher Benninger and Ramprasad Akkisetti experimented with Japanese minimalism, Sarbjit Singh of Fabinteriors opted for a blue themed zone called Azure – Splendors of the Seaside Horizon.
In Sole Soul Flight, EDIDA India 2014 bathroom winner Husna Rahaman of Fulcrum portrayed the exploration of one’s inner self with a stark, simplistic palette. Vikram Phadke of Interspace Architects blended old world elegance with new age technology in shades of black and white in Deco Nouveau Classic Timeless.
Memory by Sandeep Khosla and Amaresh Anand of Khosla Associates explores notions of craft and nostalgia through contrasting textures and finishes and a muted palette. Sanjay Puri created Ishatvam with rich, earthy colours. Krupa Zubin and Zubin Zainuddin of ZZ Architects created Sublime Luxury, a suite designed to revitalise the senses in an ambience of warm, understated opulence.
Additionally, special sections of the center are dedicated to showcase Kohler’s Artist Editions range of products and releases by Kallista, a Kohler Co brand of plumbing products.Website: www.kohler.co.inAlso read: Kohler Bold Design Awards: Congratulations to the winners!

Last Saturday, luxury carpet brand Cocoon Fine Rugs launched Tessellations, a limited edition series of rugs by multidisciplinary architect and designer Rooshad Shroff. The event was held at Mumbai’s Le Mill in association with ELLE DECOR India.
The seven carpets take cues from traditional flooring of heritage buildings that always fascinated Rooshad. Morphing patterns from one shape to another, he filled them with a sophisticated palette of bright colours. In each rug, hypnotic designs blend with Cocoon’s use of the finest combinations of wool, all hand woven to completion.
Rooshad had started working on this line a few months before he met with Ayush Choudhary of Cocoon Fine Rugs. His approach towards it was two folds: He wanted to experiment with technology to create new, unique patterns and secondly, he was taken by the idea of using floor covering patterns for rugs.
Talking about his first range of carpets, Rooshad discloses, “There were a couple of influences that went into this including heritage flooring from world over with geometric, Moorish and Islamic patterns. Taking off from MC Escher’s technique, I took simple shapes like an octagon or a star and morphed and merged them into each other using different transformation.”
Website: www.cocooncarpets.com; www.rooshads.wix.com/rooshadshroff

Amid food, wine, beautifully done up interiors and lively banter, a luxurious new range of homeware and tabletop accessories was launched by Arttd’inox at their flagship store in MG Road, Gurgaon. Designed by couturier Suneet Varma, this collection received much appreciation at the party hosted by Deepikka Jindal, Executive Creative Director and MD, Arttd’inox in association with ELLE DECOR India. Here’s who attended the soiree…Website: www.arttdinox.com
Also read: Suneet Varma’s stainless steel accessories for Arttd’inox