City Homes
In Chennai, a spatial home sees a striking design facelift by Faisal Manzur Design Studio
A consuming beauty lies within simplicity while understated luxury echoes through the turns and corners of this Chennai home. Crafted across 1,800 sq ft, this home imagined by co-founder and principal designer Amrita Thomas of ALARA STUDIO is calculatedly uncluttered. “Our philosophy is to create spaces that balance luxury with warmth and modernity with tradition. […]
What’s the closest you can get to making an office not feel like one? To make it inspire awe and be audacious; embody richness but carry an unadulterated rawness; be sumptuous yet soothing? Studio Reve crafted this 1,500 sq ft workplace in Chennai, Tamil Nadu to master this mirage. They wanted the space to incite […]
What feels like home? “The luxury of picking up an oft-read book, making a hot cup of tea and enjoying it in the balcony surrounded by trees is as simple and rich as it can get,” says Shruti Omprakash, Principal Architect of Drawing Hands Studio, who designed and thoughtfully restored this 1,200 sq ft bungalow […]
For Sunita Yogesh, a person’s home is an embodiment of their identities and proclivities. The founder and design principal of her eponymous design studio reiterates this belief in her recent project where she harnesses family legacy and tradition to conceive an urban oasis in Chennai. The Mumbai-based homeowner informed Sunita Yogesh Studio of a distinctive […]
As day breaks, the rays of the sun stream into a newly-renovated home in the Alwarpet neighbourhood of Chennai, the many corners bathed in a soft glow of light. This is the story of a family’s ground-floor apartment, spanning twenty years of existence, which once received little to no natural light. Entrusting The Design Shop, […]
Tropicals, wood panelled walls, soft colours, crafty furniture pieces, art and so much more that makes one dive into the deep spiral of inventive design — this Chennai home spanning 4,000 sq ft envisioned by Farah Agarwal of Chestnut Storeys harbours it all. From the living room and dining area to the bedrooms and other […]
A wave of cool, gentle air embraces as one enters the apartment, leaving the hot and humid Chennai outside. Terracotta lines the walls to guard the 2,200 sq ft home from the heat as other functional, vernacular elements complement it. With its minimal tones and natural materials in an intricate combination, Anshuk Punmia, Principal Architect, […]
Workplace culture has evolved and so have the designs for offices. The founders of Colab Company— Hiren Ganatra and Saloni Ganatra believe in design aberration and creating spaces that are idiosyncratic in form, function and experience. The architects have played with colours, moods and styles at Digient Technologies, Chennai to break the monotony and seriousness […]
“Madras is not an easy city to understand. It has layers that need to be uncovered a little at a time. With Love, Madras is an ode to what makes Madras remarkable.” says Deborah Thiagarajan, Founder and President of Madras Craft Foundation and DakshinaChitra Museum, who has written the foreword for this book: With Love, […]
Rooted in culture, Form And Function designs a quintessentially Indian home in Teynampet, Chennai embracing a mixture of traditional Indian motifs with minimalist ordinance. Awash with natural light, founder, D. Priya and designer Krishnamithra enchant you into losing yourself in this quaint 900 sq ft abode. A home away from home for the Indian couple […]
The idea of something new appeals to each one of us once in a while—be it a trending wardrobe, latest gimmicks or our everyday shelter, hence home. Similar was the case with the owner’s of this 15 year old home revived by Studio Rêve. Designed by Hariti Aditya and Amita Joy, Co-Founder and Principal Designers […]
Traversing beyond the solid walls of the home, The Auburn Studio’s founder and Principal Architect, Sushmitha Ramesh imagined the new abode of her longtime friend in Chennai. The underlining thought was to make the Chennai home transpire as an everyday experience of modern design coalesced with the warmth of a classical style. You may also […]
Perspective transcends all materialistic boundaries. More so, it finds meaning when translated into and onto a creative canvas, which sometimes is a result of continuous brainstorming and sometimes, it is just a spark of instinct that navigates the perspective to take an actual shape. Perspective is also the beginning of possibilities — and Raw Mango […]
When it comes to decor, a traditional style is comfortable and often predictable. Some may say conventional is outdated, but there’s a reason the style is still popular—for its warmth, comfort and familiarity. Home to a family with similar beliefs, Sunita Yogesh Studio crafts an oasis of calm with functionality and an old-school appeal. A […]
With invasive vegetation, native traditions and a rich oeuvre of materials, Geoffrey Bawa created the style now known as Tropical Modernism—a movement which looks to construct with the space rather than in the space. Jumping on that bandwagon after coming across a dilapidated beach villa in Pondicherry, Hohm Design Studio restored the structure into a […]
An unhurried cadence casts a spell at this home, making one take a double take in the ways it presents its design demeanour to the eyes. Composed by Farah Agarwal, Founder and Principal Designer of her interior design studio Chestnut Storeys, the 3,500 sq ft residence concocts its own vocabulary of simple but evocative aesthetics, […]
A home away from home, for a family primarily living aboard, immersed in modern sensibilities rather than over-the-top, indigenous interventions describe this apartment in Chennai. Located in a premium high rise building designed by Architect Rahul Mehrotra called Ceebros One74 Residences, luxury for the 3,000 sq ft penthouse staring into the Bay of Bengal doesn’t […]
Sophistication falls in a whirlwind romance with urban views in this 1300 sq ft Chennai home on the 30th floor at Hiranandani OMR. Designed by Sailakshmi Venkatesh, founder at Sailakshmi Architects (SLA), the 3BHK apartment is home to a couple and their eight-year-old child. Focused on bringing the outside in, the home is resplendent in […]
Simple and straightforward, this home in Anna Nagar in Chennai has a predominant ‘70s feel with a modern and tropical underline. Vaishali Srinivasan, founder and principal architect of 85:15, has astutely given a new identity to this 3000 sq ft apartment. Inhabited by three generations of a family, finding a designer whose style matched their […]
A house, before it transpires into a home, often meets the sweet dilemma of being able to showcase the many personalities of its owners in the most harmonious way possible. This challenge was turned into an opportunity by Gayatri Gunjal, founder and creative director of YellowSub Studio, who artfully crafted a sublime home called Nesavu. […]
Project Crest, a four BHK apartment in Chennai, is marked by subtlety, simplicity and modernity. Designed by the principal architect of Chestnut Storeys—Farah Agarwal—the 3,800 sq ft apartment is home to a family of three. Neutral tones and sharp lines form the primary design elements of the design—a flashy colour or a soft-edged piece of […]
In Alwarpet, a quiet leafy neighbourhood of Chennai, the Anya residence is a home for a young couple that harnesses natural light and space to create visual impact. In the hot and humid Chennai climate, greenery played a pivotal role as the house had ample scope for landscaping on all sides. The brief for founder […]
