In the hierarchy of a home, a bathroom usually falls somewhere between an afterthought and a secret to be swept under the rug. But during the course of your life, you spend about 800 days inside them, just shy of three years. Why don’t our absolution spaces solicit more attention, especially from designers? FCML attempts to change the narrative. In 2014, they brought on board EDIDA-winner Vaishali Kamdar to bring their Mumbai outpost to life. Spanning 10,000 sq ft, over two floors, the store that was once ahead of its time, continues to be a design destination that’s anything but ordinary. “This is one of my favourite projects. I don’t think that at that time, I had ever had this kind of scale to play with. I really enjoyed the volume of the industrial shell and the light brought in by the trusses,” says Vaishali alongside designers Pranshu Parmar and Akshat Tripathi who worked with her on the project.
“People return time and again for the FCML store’s creative interpretations, design inspiration and for a glimpse of how their own spaces might be envisioned. Bathrooms don’t need to look like bathrooms”
Vaishali Kamdar