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Pink Octopus brings Midas to a Mumbai home

Pink Octopus serves an indulgent design fare within this extravagant Mumbai home

29 Jul 2025

Family homes are storytellers in their own right. But how does one bring together individual needs and quirks to create a cohesive space? With an eye for both soulful art and a love for entertaining (lavishly so), it is this very duality that Pink Octopus addresses in this 6,000 sq ft Mumbai home. Each space serves a different purpose, but what unites them is a fluid, opulent visual language emboldened with personalised touches. Artisanal furniture and detailed craftsmanship shine against a canvas untouched by fleeting trends. And yet, a penchant for the avant-garde cements its experimental approach. It is a delicate balancing act, but the home makes it appear and feel effortless.

Rooted in craftsmanship

In response to the layered brief, Pink Octopus’s design approach utilises rich textures, metallics that dazzle and finely crafted furniture from global design behemoths. Founded by Tejasee Prabhu and Janhavi Damania, the company is a women-led design powerhouse. Pink Octopus alludes to the underwater creature’s well-known strength, the prefix Pink envisioned as a tribute to the founding women at its helm. Client-focused solutions remain at the heart of the practice, as the firm has slowly inched its way from crafting budget-friendly projects to now leading luxury residential and commercial endeavours.

True to their founding values, it is the company’s individualistic attention to detail that truly makes this Mumbai home shine. This tailored approach defines each space within the home, right from the luxurious shared lounges to the soothing private spaces customised to skillfully cater to its residents.

A textural delight, the centre table by Alberta has been sourced from Vita Moderna, paired with decor from OMA and Project Blue. Adding warmth, veneers from Venzo Wood further amplify the space’s timelessness; Photograph courtesy Talib Chitalwala

Turning up the glamour

Faithful to the classics, the home regales in a polarising monochrome of black and white. But there’s more than what meets the eye here. A black door studded with golden dots greets entrants in the foyer. Topped by a sculptural Nivasa chandelier, the space sets a luxurious precedent for what is to come next.

There’s a clear muse behind the decor in the living room: the captivating M.F. Hussain wall perched on the wall. Inspired by the painting’s dramatic strokes of brown and black, the designers have built a space that ties in with the canvas’s colour palette: earthy browns, accompanied by hints of blue in a sea of black and white. This penchant for pops of colour extends into the joint dining, bar and lounge area, where the living space’s browns give way to a rust orange, the hue’s lighter counterpart. A striking all-golden bar gleams against a reflective backsplash. Amidst this glamorous mise-en-scène, a vibrant artwork of Frida Kahlo moodily poses with a bubblegum bubble protruding from her lips and the walls. The textures are layered, the materials multivaried adding to the space’s opulent appeal.

The living space is enlivened by lights from Beyond Designs Home, paired with decor from Sarita Handa; Photograph courtesy Talib Chitalwala

Hanging lights from Nivasa Home illuminate this opulent view, amplified by a tabletop from Sicis, a floor lamp by Harshita Jhamtani and an eye-catching artwork featuring Frida by Sanuj Birla; Photograph courtesy Talib Chitalwala

Natural light permeates the space, the airy design and colour scheme further facilitating a sense of serenity. Arches, too, are a common leitmotif you’ll notice as you cross over the shared spaces and move towards the residents’ private spaces. Here, the colour palette switches sides as per their needs and wants — a contemporary yet bold bedroom for the son, a dreamier, softer palette for the daughter’s bedroom and a master bedroom that is equal parts refined and serene. The crowning glory here? A palatial walk-in wardrobe, certain to be on the moodboard of anyone who has grown up watching Hollywood classics from the early naughts.

Details, details. The smallest touches can often make or break a space. But in this Mumbai home, the colour palette and composition pare back ever just to slightly to ensure each curated piece receives its due — a true hallmark of skilful interior design.

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