Since childhood, I have enjoyed a deeper connection with nature and I draw all my inspiration from it. The experience of an interior space vastly involves touching and handling of the surrounding objects and through this understanding, all the furniture forms in my designs are informed by nature- by human form. I take references from natural human associations to provide a holistic experience and to enrich the user’s immediate surroundings. At times, I take it a step closer to nature by understanding nature’s creations, where my designs reflect the principles of Wabi-Sabi.

The colour palettes are created in a way that they have a sense of belonging – to merge them with the whole spatial setting, other than being visually delightful. Appropriate combinations of colours, textures and forms are used to bring a balance among all the interior elements in a space. Along with this approach, I love working with natural materials and I strive to express their best characteristics using intricate details and hand-craftsmanship.

Our age-old crafts, with their fine tuned sensitivity to an array of materials and their appropriate applications, can provide the subtle wisdom that traditions are made of, while remaining rich sources of inspiration and providing us with a timeless sense of aesthetics. With this understanding, I try to retain timelessness in my designs, to bring about a real character. I often use crafts in their original form and enjoy working with artisans and people associated with crafts which helps me achieve finesse and intricacy in my designs, while keeping things rooted in context.

While it is wise to borrow and adopt good, constructive ideas from other cultures, following an ideology without understanding the logic in it and ignoring our own positive features is disgraceful. Ours is a living culture – of traditions, crafts, styles and a philosophy that highlights work as a way of inner fulfilment – of wholesome attitudes and a distinctive, sensible way of life. While technology, industry and commerce have completely taken over and occupied human lives in the west, the urban-Indian lifestyle is still independent from the compulsive limitations of total industrialisation. This makes our way of life far more versatile, individualistic and offers a possibility to create diversely different things simultaneously.

This conviction, along with my passion for nature, remains at the core of all things I do.