Pride Of Place

MS Design Studio marry classic and contemporary design with rich textures and intricate detail creating a home in Vadodara that wholeheartedly embraces luxury and opulence but is immensely tasteful nonetheless.

- Carol Ferrao

Building your dream home is often a once in a lifetime opportunity, and when that moment comes, all your aspirations will fight for equal attention in the grand design scheme. How does one reconcile with that? Principal architects Shivangi Patel and Manav Patel of Vadodara-based MS Design Studio might just have the answer for us, or at least their recent residential gem — a palatial home for the Dogras — can be our guide. Here’s a project, filled to the brim with details, stories, intricacies that cast a sense of wonder at every corner of the house.

For client Dharmendra Dogra, the design brief condensed to the need for an elegant, different yet functional space. However, on the simplicity of this brief lay the dreams and aspirations of a family of six. Working with the client, who was involved throughout the designing and selection process, made the task smooth for MS Design Studio. “Dharmendra had a taste for materials and design and was very passionate about building his own house. It is unusual and rare but it becomes easy when only one person is involved in the decisionmaking process… and that’s the reason such a big house took only six months for architecture and six for interior execution,” mention the architects.