Bombaim Boutique

The adaptive reuse of a pre-independence Bengali family home into a high-end fashion atelier presented us with the opportunity to combine the unique qualities of a domestic environment envisioned many decades previously with the demands of a modern retail establishment. read

Location

Dr. Sarat Banerjee Road, Kolkata, West Bengal

Area

6500 Sqft

Project Duration

2021 – 2022

Team

Animesh Nayak, Gaurav Banerjee, Sayantani Kar
Astha Sahay

Material Palette

The materiality of the interiors celebrates the existing bones of the building in the form of exposed iron girders and RCC slabs that have been retained and updated

Various in-situ techniques from the modern-day including hand thrown and granulated lime plaster, inlaid and embossed polished cement flooring

Hand painted wall murals

Walls of highly finished polished lime