DESIGNING HER WAY

HER WAY MINNIE BHATT started designing restaurants to help a friend out. Having just designed and executed her hundredth restaurant, she talks to Shraddha Kamdar about her journey, design sensibility and work process

- Shraddha Kamdar

Serendipity, they say, is sometimes a good thing. Minnie Bhatt was a new graduate of an interior designing programme, trying her hand at designing different spaces, when she had the chance to help in setting up Silver Beach Café in Mumbai's Juhu. "It was a friend's partner's project, and he did not have a designer on board, so I signed up for it," the founder of Minnie Bhatt Design tells us. "It was my first café project, and it turned out well. Post that, we started getting a project or two." The rest, as they say, is history. This year, Minnie designed her hundredth restaurant. Her work has taken her across the country as well as outside it.