ACE January 2020

Nitco collaborates
with Lijo.Reny
architects for Kochi
Design Week 2019
Update
Call : Nilesh Parmar 9324234647 / Jigar Parmar 9324813799
The year 2019 draws to a close on a fabulous note for Nitco
Ltd., as it partners with Kochi Design Week, starting December
12.
The event, billed as India’s largest annual international festival of
its kind seeks to function as a harbinger to the aim of making
Kerala a major hub of the world’s design and architecture.
Nitco Ltd., one of the partners of the festival, hosted a session on
‘Surface Creativity’ at its Le Studio in Kochi, on December 13. Led
by one of India’s most influential architects – Ar. Lijo Jos and Ar.
Reny Lijo of Lijo.Reny architects.
Subrata Basu, VP – Design, Nitco Ltd. said, “This is a great platform
for us to come together with architects and interior designers, and
exchange amazing design ideas. Our collaboration with Lijo.Reny
architects has resulted in some outstanding tile designs that will
give designers great freedom to explore their creativity.
Surface Creativity focused on the idea of “Free Hand”, the designs
of which are inspired by hand drawn brush strokes, also giving
designers a free hand to place these tiles in any interesting manner
they want to.
Ar. Lijo Jos of Lijo.Reny architects said, “We are artists first, and
then architects. When the organisers at Kochi Design Week gave
us this opportunity to collaborate with Nitco, the only idea that
came to our mind was “Surface Creativity”. As artists, we have
always liked the way a brush moves on a surface, leaving those
subtle negative spaces around the edges and in between, giving it
a texture. Our designs reflect this on ceramic tiles and I am sure,
designers are going to find it most meditating to come up with
their own patterns too!
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