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About the Studio

Restrained design and accountable execution, from a small team that stays small on purpose.

Our Mission

Spaces should get quieter over time, not louder.

We design against trend cycles, not for them. A well-considered room should feel calmer to live in a decade from now than it did on handover day — which means choosing materials for how they age rather than how they photograph, and treating sustainability as a design constraint, not a marketing line. Every brief starts with the same question: what will this space still need to do for you in ten years?

Our Expertise

One team, from structural drawing to the last cushion.

Aesthetics and function are worked out together, not in sequence — a beautiful layout that fights how you actually move through a room isn’t a finished design, it’s an unfinished one. Our teams cover the full span of a project: civil and structural coordination, MEP, kitchens, and room-by-room interior design, so nothing gets lost in the handoff between a designer who drew it and a contractor who has to build it.

Our Story

Twelve years, one philosophy

2013

Founded in Gurugram

Started as a two-person design practice working out of a rented studio in Sector 14.

2016

First turnkey contract

Brought civil, MEP and execution in-house after one too many coordination failures on outsourced sites.

2019

100th project delivered

Crossed 100 residential and commercial handovers, still under the original founding team.

2022

Commercial studio launch

Opened a dedicated commercial fit-out division for offices, cafés and retail.

2025

260+ projects, one philosophy

Still small by choice — every project gets the same site supervisor accountability as our first.

The Team

Small by choice

Ananya Rao

Ananya Rao

Founder & Principal Designer

Twelve years designing homes and offices across Gurugram. Believes restraint is harder — and more valuable — than more.

Vikram Sethi

Vikram Sethi

Head of Execution

Runs every site personally. Has never missed a handover date in eleven years — a fact he brings up more than his team would like.

Ishaan Malhotra

Ishaan Malhotra

MEP & Civil Lead

Engineer by training, obsessive about the parts of a project no one sees — until they fail.

Diya Kapoor

Diya Kapoor

Design Lead

Trained in architecture, works across residential and commercial. Keeps a running list of details clients never asked for but always notice.

Our Approach

Five principles behind every project

The philosophy that shapes how we design, quote and build — regardless of scale.

Listen First

Every brief starts with your routines, not a style board — how a family moves through a home shapes the plan before a single material is chosen.

Design With Restraint

We add only what earns its place. Fewer, better decisions age better than a room full of statements.

Detail Obsessively

Skirting lines, switch plate alignment, joinery tolerances — the parts no one notices until they’re wrong.

Build Accountably

One team, one contract, one site supervisor. If something goes wrong, you call one number, not five.

Hand Over Quietly

No punch-list scramble at the end — snagging happens throughout, so handover day is just a walkthrough.

Why Clients Choose Us

Bespoke work, held to a quality floor

Bespoke, Not Templated

Every layout is drawn for the specific room and the specific brief — we don’t start from a catalogue of stock plans and adjust the finishes.

Quality-First Sourcing

Materials and fittings are chosen for durability first, appearance second — the two usually align, but when they don’t, durability wins.

Principal-Led Design

A senior designer stays on your project from the first sketch to handover — not a rotating cast of juniors you re-explain the brief to.

No Hidden Line Items

Quotes are itemised before work starts. If a material or scope change affects cost, you hear about it before it happens, not on the final invoice.

Start with a conversation, not a quote

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