Sonam Kapoor Instagram – A self-confessed lover of old buildings, actor Sonam Kapoor (@sonamkapoor), initially didn’t love the idea of moving away from her stucco building in Notting Hill and into a condominium in Mumbai, “but, as I spent more time in it, the double-height ceilings and the sweep of the lateral space began to seduce me. I quietly relished the idea of creating a spectacle from sheer nothingness.”
The roots of such design derring-do can be traced back in Kapoor’s DNA to a matriarchal line of women with a talent for interiors. It was, in fact, her maternal grandmother who lit the pilot flame of her aesthetic interests. “She was a tiny woman but so full of vim,” Kapoor recalls, “She used to race in her Maruti Suzuki to Dadar flower market at 5am to fill her house with scents. She adored classical music, art, and carpets. Having come from a pre-partition Sindhi family in Karachi who had to start over again, my grandmother had a refinement in her tastes. It is hard to understate her influence on me.” She finishes alight with the warmth of the memories. “Besides my nani, my aunt [AD100 interior designer] Kavita Singh (@kavitasinghinteriors) has been the main voice within these walls, alongside my own.”
Kapoor invited her celebrated aunt to collaborate with her on the new project. The pair threw themselves into transforming the contemporary blank canvas into, in Singh’s words, “the homage to Indian craftsmanship that my niece has been imagining for a long time”.
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CREDITS
Writer: Cosmo Brockway (@cosmobrockway)
Photographer: Björn Wallander (@bjornwallander)
Styling: Nikhil Mansata (@nikhilmansata)
Creative Direction: Dhun Cordo (@dhuncordo) and Nikhil Mansata (@nikhilmansata) Interior Styling: Samir Wadekar (@sam_wade11)
Visuals Editor: Harshita Nayyar (@harshitanayyar_)
Fashion Assistant: Roshni Sukhlecha (@roshnisukhlecha) Hair: Hiral Bhatia (@bbhiral)
Make-up: Namrata Soni (@namratasoni)
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