When a studio becomes a 'living collaborator'

Delhi-based interior designer Raseel Gujral Ansal on her evolving workspace

- Mahalakshmi Prabhakaran

Interior designer Raseel Gujral Ansal describe "creativity" as her "fitrat", or nature. The daughter of celebrated artist Satish Gujral and ceramicist Kiran Gujral, Ansal remembers being "raised in an atmosphere where originality was sacred". "My parents taught me to stay rooted in India and in my belief systems," Ansal says. These lessons have held her in good stead throughout her career of 30-plus years as an interior designer and co-founder of architecture and interior design firm Casa Paradox, and its prêt diffusion offshoot, Casa Pop.