MADE TO ORDER

With bespoke accents, custom furniture and perfectly tailored upholstery, this Mumbai apartment by Pan Design Studio is a deeply personalised haven.

- VAISHNAVI NAYEL TALAWADEKAR

Bhavya Parekh and Nirav Nirmal, interior designers and co-founders of Pan Design Studio, are no strangers to carte blanche briefs. So when a 50-something bachelor, a pharmaceutical entrepreneur whose office they had previously designed, approached them once more to facelift his new, 750-square-foot home, the brief-or lack thereof was an opportunity too good to pass up. "Since we had collaborated before, the client was sure of our design language and style. He was comfortable giving us free rein," says Bhavya. The design language in question is one that he and Nirav have carefully honed over the years one that nods to Mumbai's post-modern past, while embracing clean lines and minimalism.