Maskara Residence, Worli

Year
2023

Area
3500 sq ft

Status
Completed

Design Team
Rooshad Shroff, Shonit Kotian and Vedanth Ashok

Photo Credit
Pankaj Anand

Designing the residential interior of this sea-facing property in Mumbai involved connecting three separate flats, so as to create one large apartment. The brief included a spacious master bedroom opening into a private gymnasium, a home office-cum-studio and a family room, plus one guest room.

Since the residence is located in an old building originally built as a hotel, the biggest challenge was the numerous beams, which allowed for only a low ceiling height of 7.5 feet in places. We worked to incorporate them as an aesthetic element, instead of treating them as obstacles. As a result, the ceiling profile was curved, with a wave-like formation inspired by the ocean running through the apartment.

To capitalise on the ocean-facing view, we designed a deck by pulling in the living room, which, in addition to Poltrona Frau furniture and Prashant Pandey artwork, also holds two of our INpLAY C-Chairs. The lounge holds two of our Heart Tables, alongside our signature W_Oud Candles and Marble Tube Desk Light. In the dining room, an inlay marble plate from The Gyaan Project sits upon a Porro dining table, presided over by a massive 16-foot-wide painting by artist T. Venkanna.

The client being an avid art collector, the overall material palette in the home is quite muted, with the artwork at the forefront. Several walls have wooden panels to match the tone set by beams across the ceiling, and the flooring is a uniform expanse of grey marble.