Services — What we take on

Plan first,
surface last.

Six ways of working, from a single room re-planned to a full turnkey contract. Most projects start in one and grow into another; we are happy to be engaged for the difficult part only.

Engagements 06Typical duration 5 — 31 monthsRegions Pan-India
  • Stairway inside a modern building lit from above

    We work at the level of the plan before the level of the surface: walls moved, openings resized, ceilings opened, services rerouted. This is the part of the work that determines whether a space will ever feel right, and it is where we spend the most time.

    • Spatial planning
    • Structural coordination
    • Daylight and openings
    • Services strategy
  • Tan leather sectional in a sunlit residential lounge

    Family homes, city apartments and weekend houses, taken from first plan to final styling. We design storage before we design furniture, and we test every layout against an ordinary weekday rather than a photograph.

    • Full interior design
    • Bespoke joinery
    • Furniture and lighting
    • Art and styling
  • Long corridor of a commercial building receding into daylight

    Studios, offices and workshops where the brief is measured in noise levels, air, light and adjacency. We plan for the quiet work as carefully as for the collaborative work, which is usually the part that gets forgotten.

    • Workplace strategy
    • Acoustic design
    • Fit-out documentation
    • Furniture procurement
  • Hotel lobby lounge with leather sofas and a street outlook

    Guest experience designed as a sequence — arrival, threshold, seat, service, exit. We work closely with operators on covers, service lines and back-of-house, because a hospitality interior that fights its operation never survives its first year.

    • Guest journey
    • FF&E design
    • Operational planning
    • Lighting and mood
  • Closed french doors in a weathered rendered facade

    Older buildings carry decisions worth inheriting. We survey carefully, repair rather than replace where we can, and make new work legible as new — set slightly apart from the old rather than blended into it.

    • Condition survey
    • Adaptive reuse
    • Heritage-sensitive repair
    • Phased construction
  • Completed modular kitchen with integrated steel appliances

    For clients who would rather not manage twelve trades, we take the project end to end: design, procurement, execution, styling and handover under a single agreement with a single schedule and a single accountable team.

    • Design and documentation
    • Procurement
    • Execution management
    • Handover and care

Process

From idea to space

Five stages. The first has no drawings in it at all — and it is the one that decides whether the rest goes well.

01

Listen

Understanding lifestyle, needs and context.

We spend the first weeks in the existing space and in conversation — how the day actually runs, what is kept, what is endured. No drawings are produced in this stage.

  • Brief document
  • Site and light survey
  • Budget framework

02

Explore

Concepts, references, materials and spatial possibilities.

Two or three genuinely different spatial strategies are developed far enough to be compared, each with its own material direction and cost implication.

  • Concept options
  • Material direction
  • Indicative plans

03

Shape

Plans, elevations, details and design development.

The chosen direction is resolved to construction level — every joint, junction, reveal and service run drawn rather than left to site.

  • Working drawings
  • Joinery details
  • Lighting and services layout

04

Build

Coordination, execution and craftsmanship.

We tender, appoint and then stay on site. Fortnightly reviews, mock-ups for anything unusual, and a single point of coordination between every trade.

  • Tender and appointment
  • Site reviews
  • Mock-ups and samples

05

Reveal

Final space and finishing details.

Styling, snagging and a maintenance handover written for the specific materials used, so the space ages the way it was designed to.

  • Styling and install
  • Snag close-out
  • Care and maintenance guide

Working together

How engagements are structured

Appointment

A fixed design fee for stages 01–03, quoted after a first site visit. Nothing is charged for the initial conversation.

Execution

Either a percentage of construction cost for supervised delivery, or a single turnkey contract with a fixed schedule of works.

Documentation

Every project leaves with drawings, a material schedule and a care document written for the specific finishes used.

Aftercare

One year of snag support, and a revisit at twelve months to see how the materials have settled.

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Enquiries

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Studio

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Bandra West

Mumbai 400050, India

Hours

Monday to Friday, 10:00 – 18:00 IST

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