A SINGULAR DUALITY

Vaishali Kamdar and Ravi Vazirani collaborate to design a home in South Mumbai with an understated statement of elegance and rare art discoveries

- PRATISHTHA RANA

In the age of technology — that thrives on likes, followers, Pinterest pins and incessant scrolling — where human interference begins and blurs is hard to tell. But through the layers of raging trends, reels and visual hoodwinks online, the duo, Vaishali Kamdar and Ravi Vazirani are an exception in the offscreen world. Their creative decisions assume the spotlight inside a home they designed together in the southern stretch of Mumbai. The home emerges as a moment. A journey. An experience. The secret? Vaishali and Ravi’s collaboration, which they subliminally manifested through the years of their friendship, now rooted firmly in the nooks and crevices of the residence.

This novel 3,500 sq ft abode ensconced on the 29th floor serves as the secondary residence of pharma-industrialists Barkha and Pranav Amin and their teenage kids. Wrapped in the aesthetic jargon that is equally peculiar to Ravi and VK, as many endearingly call Vaishali, they define the home as understated. Yet pronounced in details. On-ground deliberations, real-time challenges and spontaneous evolutions are a few things that perhaps are key to the making of a home for all seasons, if you may?