Elegant Interiors

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"Design is not just what it looks like; design is how it works."
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Prof. Akhtar Chauhan
Principal, Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai
Ar. Karan Grover
Karan Grover & Associates, Vadodara
Ar. Manit Rastogi
Principal Architect,
morphogenesis, New Delhi I Bangalore
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JAISIM-FOUNTAINHEAD, Bangalore
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CP Kukreja Architects, New Delhi
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Editor: Sheldon Santwan
A vast palette of design elements, especially, in interior designing
calls for myriad design idioms with an empirical approach that is
subjective. This abstract palette - colours, textures, materials, furniture
and furnishings - reflects one's Modus Vivendi.
Besides an array of design elements involved in articulating an indoor
space beautifully, the craft of furniture designing plays a vital role
amongst the lot. Lately, furniture designers have exploited numerous
materials, adapted explicit technologies and challenged the structural
stability to set a high benchmark to their portfolio of work amongst
their professional peers.
Furniture designs are being crafted in a mammoth of styles - from a
region's tradition to a universal design acceptance to spatial forms
designed against gravity - which are as many as the languages that
exist in our country.
On going back to our history, furniture designs were attributed to its
functional sphere designed eloquently with precious gems and
intricate carvings; challenging its aesthetics. Their characteristics were
limited to their functionality and aesthetics. But today, the furniture's
frugal expressions have taken a new form - an art of sculpture, a
multipurpose artefact, or technology-integrated concepts.
Furniture design, being an essential element in spatial articulation,
defines the character of the space and brings in the warmth to the
spatial dimension. To name a few, designers like Yael Mer and Shay
Alkalay, Ronan Bouroullec and Erwan Bouroullec, and Oki Sato have
presented sui generic design ontology in the product design sphere
which are discoursed in this issue.
In addition, the issue highlights on Interior design that is a confluence
of the traditional and contemporary design axioms, in harmony, across
disparate regions of the world. But with the growing obsession for
sci-fi, will the pattern language of interior space transmute the age-old
design principles?
Grace and Peace
Apoorva Nandish
Sub Editor
04 Architecture Update October 2015