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Why Handmade Art Matters in a Digital Design World
Scroll through any Indian interior design Instagram account this week. Count how many you see with arched doorways. Fluted panels. Limewash walls. Warm terracotta tones. Boucle sofas. Now count how many look genuinely different from each other. This is the problem with trend-led interior design: it distributes the same visual language across thousands of different
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The Baaya Experience: January Edition
Baaya Newsletter: January
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The Baaya Experience: February Edition
Baaya Newsletter: February
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Large-Scale Art in Commercial Spaces: Why It’s Not About Decoration
A Bengaluru tech company spent six months and significant money redesigning their headquarters. Beautiful space, open plan, natural materials, good light. Their employees’ first response when they saw it? ‘It looks like every other tech office.’ They’d done everything right, materially. But they’d missed the thing that makes a space distinctive rather than just well-executed.
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Why Your Hotel Lobby Art Is Either Working Hard for You, Or Doing Nothing
Walk into the Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai and the first thing you notice isn’t the architecture. It’s the art. A MF Husain triptych commissioned for the hotel’s 100th anniversary, bold in scale, impossible to ignore. Walk into most other hotels in India and you notice… walls. Maybe some prints. A sculpture in the corner that
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What Does a Spatial Design Consultant Actually Do, And Do You Need One?
Here’s a question we get often, usually from architects or hotel owners a few months into a project that isn’t quite landing the way they hoped: “We have an interior designer. We have an architect. Why isn’t the space feeling right?” The answer, most of the time, is that nobody was given the job of
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Women InSight 2.0
Dialogues is an invite-only conclave that brings together India’s leading architects, designers, and design brands for three immersive days of conversation, collaboration, and creative exchange. Held at some of the most iconic properties across the world, it is deliberately intimate, designed not for networking in the conventional sense, but for the kind of unhurried, meaningful…
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The Role of Spatial Design Consultants in Large-Scale Projects
Large-scale projects fail in a specific way. The architecture is resolved. The interiors are specified. The brand strategy exists somewhere in a PDF. And yet, when the space opens, it doesn’t cohere. The lobby reads differently from the guest floor. The art program isn’t in conversation with the material palette. The areas designed by different
