10-On-10 With Pratap Jadhav, National President, Institute Of India Interior Designers (IIID)

“Last two years have been the most satisfying time for me in IIID, so also the time when I headed Pune Regional Chapter as Chairman.”

Pratap Jadhav is an interior designer by education and profession. He inherits creativity & leadership from his Late father Ar. Vasant Jadhav. Practising for more than two decades, having designed several prestigious projects, to name a few, are Infosys Technologies’ first office in Pune, KSB Pumps corporate office, corporate offices for Asta India, Finolex cables, Nipro India and many more. He is literally married to IIID. His association started way back in 1994. He became Pune Chapter Chairperson in the year 2004. Under his able leadership there was huge growth in memberships at the Chapter. Since then there was no looking back. For the last 4 years, he is playing key role in the policy making of IIID first as President-Elect and now as President since May 2015.

Since then he has initiated a lot of administrative developments, developed communication & PR and taken IIID’s conclaves & chapters to a different level all together. Surfaces Reporter magazine interacted with Pratap Jadhav, National President, IIID, to understand the milestones achieved so far and the way ahead.

1 Let us start with your journey as a designer. Were you always inclined towards design? How did it start?

I must have born a designer. As my father was an Architect and my mother, a child psychologist, I got the combination of both. Still I was a rebellion and wanted to pursue Advertising as a visualiser, or become an Interior designer. I got through on merit at St. Xavier college Mumbai in Advertising and Marketing diploma. But destiny was to become an Interior designer as the admission of this got confirmed first.

2 As you near your term as the President of IIID, What were the major milestones achieved and what were the most challenging decisions you had to take so far?