Nicobar Store

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by Ishita Maheshwari

Ishita Maheshwari

Tropical Contemporary | Organic

Scope: Interior

Location: Basant Lok Market, New Delhi

Team: Nidhi, Ishita, Sukriti

Year: 2020, 5 months

Area: 1300sqft

A lifestyle brand with stores across India takes its inpiration from “Journeys across the Indian ocean”. The products interpret the tropical design language into the materiality and form. The brief of the project was to translate the same idealogy into the interior of the store and provide a shell to showcase the crafted and curated products.

Stages Concept design, Design development, Working drawings, Bill of Quantities, Tendering, Client meetings, Site coordination, Handover

Material Palette

L-R: Rubber wood, trowel finish, brass, vitrified tiles, deep grey accent

The customer’s experience is guided through the sensory presence of warm tones, soft lighting that takes you on a journey to tropical modernism, rich in trowel finished Ivory walls, stained black wood shelves, accents in charcoal finish.

Plan

The store is segregated into clothing display, decor and lifestyle accesories on the ground floor. The mezzanine houses the homeware products.

Mezzanine floor

Site post demolition Site status on day 130

Towards the homeware shelving

Prototyping

Good Earth store

Homegrown Luxury | Handcrafted

Scope: Interior

Location:Juhu, Mumbai

Team Nidhi, Ishita, Soumya

Year: 2018

Area: 1000sqft

Good Earth is a leading Indian design house that take you on a journey with each product. Inspired by myths of rich cultures across asia and the Indian subcontinent their design stories tell enchanting tales of history, culture and craft. With the interior retail we tried to incorporated this sentiment.

Stages Working drawings, Tendering, Client meetings, Site coordination, Handover

Ahuja Residence

Eclectic Bold Fluid

Scope: Interior Location: Uttar Pradesh Team: Nidhi, Ishita Year: 2018-20 Area: 2400sqft

A home for a fashion designer duo in their very own unique experimental and bold styles. The use of colour weaves a story inpired by miniature painting from French museum.