Apartment at Skygardens

Our design for an airy 5000 sft. apartment on the 11^thfloor of an upmarket Bengaluru residential tower uses modernist influences, a sumptuous color and material palette; geometric forms broken by quirky floral motifs and uninterrupted panoramic views of the city.

The entry lift foyer is ensconced in the warmth of textured wood contrasted with a base of seamless white marble. We defined one wall in in elegant fluted teak while its perpendicular wall is dressed in an exotic crotch mahogany veneer. A few chosen elements like an art deco console and a 1900’s chair are highlighted.

The intimacy of this space opens into the large expanse of living and dining which is subtly broken into 3 areas. On entering the living room, an informal seating area is partitioned from the dining by a freestanding teak modernist screen with brass trims.

An L wall clad in rich mahogany veneer anchors the main living area to its north. It conceals the door to a bedroom and also houses storage of a bar and linen cupboards.

There was a conscious decision to use varying species and finishes of wood. There are geometric elements worked into the rugs, the cushions and even the artwork byyoung contemporary Indian lift the general colour palette of earth tones with turquoise, garnet and prune.

Light fixtures such as the one over the dining area has brushed brass, copper and glass components are treated as focal works of art and asymmetrical quirky floral wallpapers playfully break the geometric elements of the space.

The western periphery of the living area was left intentionally free of any furniture so that there is visual continuity with the expanse of white flooring merging from indoors into the surrounding green cover and sky, and a linear framed skylight on this periphery floods the apartment with natural light.

The master bedroom is a place for refuge, for reading, sleeping and binge watching TV shows. The space is muted with filtered eastern light through linen sheers and a bespoke hand-finished teak floor. The theme of flowers continues behind the leather bed headboard with another floral wallpaper.