This year, India Design ID celebrated 5 years and I was invited by them to attend the same. Even though I am not a designer per se, any creative individual can benefit from attending such shows. A different perspective of things is what it takes to open up one’s “Creative eye”.
So this year, India Design ID 2017 was as usual showcasing a lot of decor brands, architects, interior/exterior designers along with ID symposium featuring eminent speakers from India and abroad. The latter was the most exciting part. I would have attended all 3 days of the talks, had the venue not been extremely far from my place.
Most brands at such shows have stalls which present a “vignette” of what a consumer’s space would look like. They can replicate that exact look if the consumer wants or one can buy a la carte as well. Established names such as Arttd’inox, Antonio Lupi, Beyond Designs, K2India, Roca, BoConcept, The Pure Concept etc were present at the show. A few brands like Apartment9 gave a “complete experience” where one would enter a stall and get transported into a completely different world, which was a result of dim lighting, appropriate music, various vignettes along with mannequins performing their roles, snacks, champagne, attendants – the works!
There were a number of pop up cafes at the India design venue, Including Nomad cafe by Park Hotels, a pop up by Le Meridien and many others.
Without further ado, here are images of some of the things that caught my eye at India design.
“Images from India Design 2017”
From India Design ID 2017. Posted by “PSpective” – photography by Priyanka Sachar on 2/18/2017 (30 items)
- Pinwheel © Priyanka Sachar
- Pencil branches © Priyanka Sachar
- Flying carpets © Priyanka Sachar
- J J Valaya showcasing his photography © Priyanka Sachar
- A dining table with 2 hands at each end and cotton candy embedded in the table! © Pr…
- Some new hair trends too! © Priyanka Sachar
- The thinking man? © Priyanka Sachar
- Outdoor design © Priyanka Sachar
- Making quirky products with cane © Priyanka Sachar
- High Chair © Priyanka Sachar
- Interesting Photography by artist Asim Waqif who has printed the image and then it ha…
- Loved these lamps! © Priyanka Sachar
- Home decor made with pompoms inspired by marigold © Priyanka Sachar
- Home decor made with pompoms inspired by marigold © Priyanka Sachar
- Lamps inspired by milk cans © Priyanka Sachar
- Very interesting lamp in the shape of a "choori hanger" .. the hanger itsel…
- Caricatures in clay © Priyanka Sachar
- Some of the stalls had a whole environment – complete with entire "room" de…
- An installation at India Design ID © Priyanka Sachar
- Pati, Patni aur Goat, it seems. By playclan © Priyanka Sachar
- Play clan © Priyanka Sachar
- Stitches on wood © Priyanka Sachar
- As you must be knowing.. the doors and windows from your grandfather’s house are in v…
- Gunjan arora and Rahul jain’s – Scapes Within © Priyanka Sachar
- Note the saxophone door handles! © Priyanka Sachar
- Amit Syngle – President, Sales, marketing, tech – Asian paints © Priyanka Sachar
- Interesting lighting – this is a lifesize chandelier © Priyanka Sachar
- Very interesting outdoor seating. These fluid funicular structures rising from the gr…
- The colour of the year announced by Asian paints is Intense ocean .. the crowd has be…
- Blue Curacao + vodka – drink inspired by "Intense Ocean" © Priyanka Sachar
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I attended a couple of talks at the ID symposium. One of the most interesting was Humberto Campana’s furniture design with things as quirky as chairs made out of bubble wrap or stuffed toys! Have a look.
Chair made with bubble wrap!
Chair made with stuffed toys!
He also likes using a lot of raw natural materials like cane and bamboo. One must check out more of the Campana brothers’ work here and here.
After the ID symposium got over, Asian Paints announced “Intense Ocean” as their Colour of the year. At the after party, the theme was clearly various shades of blue as we were served cocktails with a blue curacao base :). I had a good time, met a lot of creative people and it definitely gave me a few ideas for my own work as well.
