BETWEEN STROKE AND SEA

In this sea-facing Mumbai apartment by Shabnam Gupta of The Orange Lane, the art and outdoors take turns seizing the spotlight

- VAISHNAVI NAYEL TALAWADEKAR

Interior designer Shabnam Gupta recalls many details from that first visit, but none more distinctly than the view that greeted her when she stepped inside. “We were enthralled,” recalls the founder and principal of The Orange Lane of the skyrise Mumbai apartment in question. “We could see the city, the mangroves and the sea. It was a 180-degree view.” What she also saw, in due course, was the potential to mirror that magic indoors. The clients, a well-travelled couple with a young child, had a sizeable art collection—one so impressive that Shabnam saw an opportunity to match, if not surmount, the vista by giving it equal pride of place.