Magnolias’s Residence

Magnolia's Residence

Gurugram | Residential | Interior Design

Discover a luxury New York-loft-inspired residence at DLF Magnolias with refined styling, bespoke bar design, elegant dining space, and artistic décor elements.

The home belongs to a businessman living in DLF, Magnolias, Golf Course Road,Gurugram. His requirement was interior styling with minimum interventions in entrance & drawing room (with area of 1600 Sq Feet) while retaining some of the stuff. The client wanted to do the interventions without moving out.

The brief was to derive out of the elements expressed by client linked to his good experiences of previous houses he resided in. Another inspiration was a set of values and beliefs client believes in.In one line explanation of the brief, the house had to be designed inspired from new york loft & with a blend of context and values.

The entrance area is completely white with accents of blacks. The set of three paintings on the entrance wall over white console have a very strong interpretation of clients life and struggle days. First is a big painting on top with a partition scene depicting refugees stranded on Lahore station to catch up the train to the place where they have right to live. Second painting has a girl with a laptop on a bullock cart depicting hard work. Third painting is a scene of new york metro depicting the third phase of client’s life. All the three paintings have railway as a common element. (Painting made by phifilms (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU8sOxkfeXOvPxDOQl5Nqww).

The fireplace is a symmetric and a strong element used with two arm chairs & a runner below. The chair & runner are in the shades of tan i.e. the only color introduced at entire area apart from the combination of white matt and a little bit of high-gloss matt. The finishes used in the paneling and fireplace are polyurethane with polyester base for at surfaces and polyester for gloss surfaces. The finishes are from Sirca paints (https://www.sirca.it/en/).

The Bar – The bar is planned with a sense of creating a dark corner with a timeless feel to it. The Huge dining table with three pendants on top has a very strong center line ending towards the symmetric luxury bar. The bar is a monolithic unit finishes in matt grey panels with a niche in center to keep bottles. The niche is finishes in high gloss ebony veneer as a highlight in contrast with the outer grey matt and has a light on top to highlight bottles. The left side of the bar is a service door leading towards pantry area and is hidden in paneling. Each panel of the bar unit has a ebony inlay strip running towards the periphery and is also finished with high gloss coat. The The major paneling pattern of wall is matte dark finish & with high gloss ebony wood inlay work in it that seems different in different lighting conditions. Since the high gloss inlay is reflecting and as a highlight at certain angles. The pocket on the top center has been created for the trapdoor and has a world clock made to the size of the panel. The minimalistic clock has black mirror with ebony rings on it. The bar counter top has been made with solid 65mm thick solid ebony wood in lacquer matte finish with a feel of open textile grains as a bar top.Sofa back unit in solid ebony wood is a 8 feet long unit with no intermediate supports and has been planned to develop a correlation between bar towards the seating area.

The Dining- The big monks painting with a huge 10 seater dining table defines the central axis of the leading room to huge crystal chandelier & sofa. A huge dining table with black glass and metallic black matt decorated edge with a unique pattern defines the grand dining along with a set of chairs with tan color upholstery.

The Decor – A life size sculpture of Baba is planned in corner area of entrance to drawing room, dining & bar. The sculpture of baba has been chosen to create a fusion of modern space with religious roots. The corner tall pedestals have two faces in white and black color complementing each other

The Drawing Room is designed in such a way to have dark walls in contrast with all white entrance area in other corner. Only one wall is in white color adjacent to a huge windows to obtain maximum reflected natural light. A Kashmiri carpet has been chosen below center table for the seating cluster with subtle & dark tones acting as a binding element for the three existing sofas, a set of bespoke black check-patterned armchairs & elegant tall pedestal tables towards the wall. The existing center table has been coated in black metallic matte. The window wall has elite black versace curtains with golden motifs along with the antique brass planters containing tall areca palms.