"Studio Wood Collective"

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Amazing and Brilliant reinventions in wood or a breath of fresh air of interior design or Zen spaces /corners for your house are now possible with a little bit of magic from Studio Wood Collective. 
As i walked into their SWC Garage sale,i could sense the ever enthusiastic bunch of people behind this collective who had invited me over and over again and again.

Thanks for the invite Gazal.

 Amazingly crafted end products  that demand their own corner.A Zen like feel in each corner.

Studio Wood Collective was created by product designer Vrinda Mathur along with Graphic designer Gazal Bawa, Space designer Navya Aggarwal and architect Sahej Bhatia. In the young team’s words, as told to "Nestopia"

“With the belief that all big things have small beginnings, we conceptualized the Studio Wood Collective with an objective to rediscover the potential of used furniture pieces and deconstruct their existing form, whilst enlivening the product with a brand new look.”

The collective is supported in terms of infrastructure and manufacturing facilities by Vrinda’s parent’s furniture manufacturing unit, Studio Wood. Infact, the factory floor of Studio Wood was where Vrinda saw pieces of furniture that had seen better days hidden away and recognised their potential. Realizing that the idea needed more than one brain working on it, she called out to her fellow designers and the collective was born.

Bulbs inserted in repurposed wood

Legs fitted in to a drawer and niches created

inverted V table

jenga cabinet

edison bulbs in apulley..vintage lighting

repurposed drawer

2 way use for stacking tables

a corner in the garage sale

the collective 4 group

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Idea and images:Lakshmi Arvind

Kriti Monga@ Turmeric Design

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Kriti Monga  a brilliant illustrator.I sort of bumped in to her work in the commissioned travel dairies for Calcutta which she worked for the Rollcallroll event. Kriti's works are etheral. I love her amazing calligraphy.With her calligraphy and illustrations she loves to draw stories.No wonder she was asked to make travel dairies of Calcutta,she is born to make travel dairies and has almost made of every place she has visited and brilliant is the word to it. She runs the design studio named "Turmeric Design" in Delhi.

As Kriti quotes"For every spark of brilliance you see in an artist's work, there were a hundred sleepless nights they spent setting themselves on fire"yes its the perseverance and love towards art,travel,illustration and calligraphy that takes you to places Kriti.

There's so much of creativity that she's has been featured on Verve,Creative Review,Platform Magazine blog,M magazine,Elle India and the Pool magazine.She was also a part of the Design Yatra 2011.Recently she had been in news of illustrating the walls of Smoke House Deli at the Khan market and Hauzkhas.(More on that later).To see her brilliance in person,i visited Smoke House Deli at Khan Market.See it in the next post.

her travel diary made into a book ,some years back

travel to bhuj

some blockprints

travel to fort kochi

her travels to Paris

travels to SriLanka

travels to Goa

dairies of train travels

diaries of Bengal..

Images:Courtesy Kriti Monga@Turmeric Design

Delhi Decor Scouting::Flipside Cafe,HAuzkhas,New Delhi

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Flipside Cafe ,tucked in one of the streets in the bylanes of Hauzkhas,Delhi.There is dimlighting in one of the sides and bright sunlit balcony faces seat on one side.They have home made cakes form sweet lemonades to the normal chai...

All images Lakshmi Arvind