Style Unlimited

Using a curated selection of interior products from the company’s extensive portfolio, architect Hiral Jobalia of Hiral Jobalia Studio designs a clean-edged, modern and sophisticated office for Sources Unlimited in Mumbai.

- Rupali Sebastian

A client who has brought uber-luxe international furniture, lighting, surface finishes and accessories to the Indian market. The task: to design an office for them, using the products they deal in. For a designer, it sounds like a really interesting assignment, given that fact that they’d have some of the world’s well-regarded brands literally at their fingertips. But for architect Hiral Jobalia, who did land an assignment of this nature, the reality was a little different. “We had to make sure that the office didn’t end up looking like a showroom,” says the principal of Hiral Jobalia Studio, which was tasked with creating an office for Sources Unlimited, a company which has brought brands such as Georgetti, De Castelli and Rimadesio to the Indian market since 2005. “The client's brief was to bring a level of sophistication to the working space and also to underplay the design so as to give more emphasis to their products. Our job became to curate their offerings so that it came together in a meaningful way rather than looking mindlessly propped.”