Step inside Le Harlequin, an imaginative redesign of a Mumbai residence

Le Harlequin in Mumbai’s Decrease Parel neighbourhood rises 55 ranges above the town’s bustling streets. It’s Design Hex’s newest residential venture and continues the native studio’s ongoing experimentation with daring color splashes and fluid contours. The truth is, it was these very qualities, so evident within the studio’s design for the residence tower’s present flat, that satisfied Le Harlequin’s homeowners to name upon Design Hex to work on their residence.

The unique seven-bedroom structure was condensed to 5 – greater than ample for the businessman proprietor, his spouse and two younger kids – with two rooms expanded into a bigger residing house and an AV den.

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Design Hex’s transient was to create an opulent, but elegantly understated, house that was anchored by a gray, muted palette over which might be layered the studio’s daring colors and textures – an unexpectedly efficient reference to the residence’s moniker and inspiration.

The result’s a collection of theatrical set items which might be backdropped by the dizzying panorama of Mumbai’s glittering skyline, sea and, from one of many bedrooms, the Bandra-Worli Sea Hyperlink bridge.

‘One main problem we confronted,’ says Shimona Bhansali, Design Hex’s founder and lead designer, ‘was how the lengthy corridors hinder pure mild.’ The answer concerned not simply strategically positioned mild to disperse the dim temper, but additionally including brighter colors and light-weight supplies to create the phantasm of spaciousness and light-weight.

Which explains the palette of Bisazza tiles, greys and rustic metallic tones, and terracotta brick tiles that swathe the principal rooms, in addition to bespoke rugs, asymmetrical doorways and home windows.

Accommodating every member of the family’s distinct design desire for his or her private house was one other problem, particularly if the ultimate design was to have a way of connection as you moved from one house to the opposite. To attain this elusive cohesive high quality, Bhansali says she and her workforce ‘opted for refined canvases and impartial room shells all through your entire residence’.

The residence’s hero house, she provides, is the kitchen, the place a doubtlessly awkward round nook has been lifted with cool inexperienced tones, fashionable Indian accents and wood cupboard shutters completed in walnut to border the ever-looming views of Mumbai and the ocean far beneath.

For Bhansali, Le Harlequin continues her studio’s experimentation with ‘maximal daring design’, however in a manner that dovetails completely with the wants of a classy Indian family. And as if to drive dwelling the flexibility of Design Hex, up subsequent for the the 20-strong, eight-year-old studio is a retailer for the high-end Indian vogue model, Papa Don’t Preach.