Shabnam Gupta
Driven by a passion for design and encouraged by an entrepreneurial spirit, Shabnam Gupta decided to pursue both by founding a design firm and a vintage lifestyle store – The Orange Lane & Peacock Life – respectively. Gupta and her team has been instrumental in revolutionising interior design in India with their charming and endearing […]
Farah Ahmed
Farah Ahmed is a designer and co-founder of FADD Studio, which she launched in 2012 with fellow designer Dhaval Shellugar. After graduating from Northwestern with a degree in Photography and Political Science, she had a brief stint at Ogilvy, New York, during which she immersed herself into her true passion: fine art photography. Following this, […]
Ekta Parekh
Ekta Parekh is an architect and co-founder of the design firm, reD Architects. Having worked in varied environments of small design studios to large scale corporate spaces, both in Mumbai and New York, she has brought to the practice a blend of team spirit enriched with an inventive design-and-construction approach. Her experience ranges from building […]
Sarah Sham
Sarah Sham is the Principal Designer of the Mumbai-based interior design firm Essajees Atelier. She founded Essajees Atelier in 2014 as an extension of her family’s 130-year old antique dealership in the city’s heritage district of Colaba. The established firm is 60 projects young, and has designed luxury abodes all over the country. Apart from […]
Anjali Mody
Anjali Mody is the founder of Goa-based JOSMO Studio. She is a serial entrepreneur with an unwavering passion for design, cultivated her artistic flair under the unparalleled mentorship of Interior guru, Pinakin Patel, and the late Shri Dashrat Patel. After graduating with a degree in Industrial Design from The Rhode Island School of Design in […]
Kaiwan Mehta
Kaiwan Mehta is a theorist and critic in the fields of visual culture, architecture, and city studies. In 2017 he completed his doctoral studies at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bengaluru, under the aegis of Manipal University. He has been the Managing Editor of Domus India (Spenta Multimedia), and was a […]
Dikshu Kukreja
An architect and urban planner, Dikshu C Kukreja currently serves as the managing principal of CP Kukreja Architects, Having earned his Masters in Architecture from Harvard, he has since received numerous accolades and recognition for his innovative designs that prioritise environmental conservation and social responsibility. A staunch environmentalist and urbanist, he plays a pivotal role […]
Nikhil Mehra
Designer and fashion expert Nikhil Mehra has been a renowned artist since the turn of the century. After initial years in New Delhi, he graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandise, LA. In 1999, he returned to India with a distinct fashion vision and a business plan in mind. In collaboration with his […]
Sunil Kant Munjal
The Chairman of his family-founded Hero Group – India’s premier automative manufacturing company – Sunil Kant Munjal is also an entrepreneur, investor, and published author. With interests in insurance distribution, steel-making, real estate and corporate training, he runs an active Investment Office, which has supported a wide range of businesses, from women empowerment and e-commerce […]
Nuru Karim
Nuru Karim is an architect, founder and principal of Nudes, an interdisciplinary firm that works at the intersection of architecture, art and computational design. Having received his Masters in Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association London, Karim has worked for Zaha Hadid Architects on a host of institutional projects. His firm Nudes has achieved […]
Peter Zumthor
Pritzker-prize winning architect Peter Zumthor was born in Basel in 1943 and raised in Oberwil, Baselland. He is married to Annalisa Zumthor-Cuorad. He has been trained as cabinetmaker from 1958-62 at the shop of his father Oscar Zumthor, and as designer and architect at the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel, as well as at the Pratt Institute, New […]
Thomas Karrer
Thomas Karrer has spent the last 30 years making numerous video portraits and short documentaries for educational institutions, non-profit organisations, museums, cantons and municipalities. He has also contributed to the online platforms at the University of St. Gallen. His first cinema documentary “Zwischenwelten” had its world premiere at the Solothurn Film Festival in 2020 and […]