MATERIAL ALCHEMY

In a 5,000 sq ft Kolkata home, Pooja Bihani of Spaces and Design lets craft do all the decorating

- WORDS MALLIKA ADVANI PHOTOS ISHITA SITWALA

In this home, the materials are the art," says Pooja Bihani of a recently completed 5,000 sq ft project in southeast Kolkata. It's a line that tells you a lot about how the Spaces and Design founder thinks. For Pooja, interior architecture is less about decoration and more about how material, light, and detailing work together as one cohesive story. The result, however and perhaps inevitably is a home that feels deeply decorative. Not by design, but by consequence. A rich material palette, layered colours, and custom architectural elements born from an obsessive curiosity about the materials themselves - turn each room into a hypnotic composite.