Sumant Jayakrishnan
Sumant Jayakrishnan is a scenographer, designer, and installation artist who is based out of New Delhi. He transforms spaces and creates beauty for a range of contexts around the world. He builds in elements of imagery, video mapping, calligraphy, lighting, performance and installations for projects across disciplines, whether Theatre, Dance, Art, Film, Fashion or in […]
Zandra Rhodes
Dame Zandra Rhodes is a British fashion and textile designer and international fashion icon. Most recognised for her original use of textiles and revolutionising garment shapes, she was one of the first designers to incorporate streetstyle punk into couture, coining the nickname the ‘Princess of Punk.’ Over the span of her near 60-year career, Rhodes […]
Pooja Sood
She is a founding member and Director of Khoj International Artists’ Association—an autonomous, not for profit society committed to experimentation and exchange in the visual arts industry in India. Sood has worked actively to build a robust network of experimental spaces across south Asia resulting in the South Asian Network for the Arts ( SANA) […]
Dominique Jean Lavabre
Director of Udaipur-based ASTANA Dom Jean Lavabre Design Studio, he spent eight years developing the 9HOTEL chain in Paris, Brussels, Lisbon, Madrid, Dublin, and Amsterdam. A company development lawyer with the additional responsibility of hotel operations and the artistic & design management of hotel refurbishments, upon his return to Udaipur he carved a niche for […]
Malvika Singh
She is the Publisher of Seminar, a prestigious monthly magazine of ideas and alternatives, founded by her parents—Raj and Romesh Thapar—in 1959. Author of several acclaimed books such as ‘Perpetual City: A Short Biography of Delhi,’ Singh has also been Associate Publisher of the Business India Group, Editor of The India Magazine and served as […]
Pallavi Dean
She is the Founder and Creative Director of Roar (formerly Pallavi Dean Interiors), an award-winning interior design studio based in Dubai. A trained architect and sustainability specialist, Pallavi has received multiple awards for work across a range of sectors including commercial, hospitality and residential. Some of her flagship projects include the Delano Dubai hotel, UAE […]
Mayank Mansingh Kaul
Founder-Director of The Design Project India, his work focuses on the post-independence histories of textiles, design and fashion in India. Named as one of The Most Influential Young Indians at the World Economic Forum Davos in 2013 and 2014, Kaul has also been the Editor of Take on Art Design in 2012 and Take on […]
Zubin Master
He is the Co-founder and Director of Design Matrix Interiors, an esteemed multidisciplinary studio that offers architecture and interior design solutions for residential, commercial and hospitality projects. The award-winning creative started his career at Talati & Panthaky Associates and has worked on several noteworthy projects over his three decades in the industry. The Indus Club […]
Sanjay Puri
One of the country’s leading architects, his eponymous practice has received in excess of 100 domestic and 140 international architecture awards. 7 Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design’s International Architecture Awards, 10 World Architecture Festival Awards and 18 World Architecture Community Awards U.K are just a few standouts in his extensive repertoire. Puri has […]
Timothy Corrigan
Honoured by the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, the French Heritage Society, and a recipient of the Design Icon and Star of Design awards, his timeless design philosophy combines European elegance with California comfort. The award-winning designer’s eponymous studio has an enviable clientele of European and Middle Eastern royalty, Hollywood celebrities and corporate leaders. […]
Theron Carmine De Sousa
Executive Director of FWC LLP, a consulting and design firm that offers strategic solutions in the product and design thinking space, he has also worked as an independent advisor to several international companies and principal advisor to Ballard Pier Associates and the Brand Advisory Council. De Sousa is revered for eighteen years of experience working […]
Shayamal Vallabhjee
Founder & Managing Director of HEAL Institute, a sports medicine and high-performance institute, he spent three years living as a monk. He now works with individuals to unlock their full potential—mentally, physically & emotionally. In addition to 18 years of on-field experience with olympians & championship winning sports teams, Vallabhjee is also the author of […]
