QUEST OF THE RARE

Handcrafted tales of Mahabharata, flower-embroidered ceilings, antiquities and disciplined delicacy of concrete find a purpose of raw luxury in a bespoke Hyderabad home by Sona Reddy

- PRATISHTHA RANA

Hear me out on this. There is a consuming beauty in contradictions that silently blaze through the walls and voids of a home. Roosted upon the Jubilee Hills, a neighbourhood in Hyderabad, illustrious for its affluent dwellers, the clues of contradiction at this cove for a family of four are built with blocks of conscious traditionality and accepted modernity. And if you’ve stumbled upon the current buzzword of ‘quiet luxury’ that the internet seers have been reciting off late, you’ll find that this nest in the city of Nizams is a visual meditation of the very concept punched with collectibles at every step. Calculatedly cosy but not quite. Generously grand but not quite. Such design manoeuvres took charge of this stately abode, driven by Sona Reddy, Principal Designer and Founder of her onymous firm Sona Reddy Studio. The entrance opens up to a formal living area conjoined with the informal living area. A dining corner sits independently, linking the ground to the first level. Common zones like gallery-esque corridors, lounge and in-house theatre are functionally sectioned from the multiple private boudouirs of the parents, daughters and guests on the top floor, ll laid out in a way that isn’t too overwhelming visually.