AT WORK WITH SHABNAM GUPTA

We take you to the workspace of your design favourites, giving you a glimpse of what keeps them ticking—vintage finds, invaluable scribbles, priceless notes and more

- SAKSHI RAI

The oldest inhabitant of designer Shabnam Gupta’s interior and architectural studio The Orange Lane in Mumbai, is a towering banyan tree, the presence of which first helped the creative fixate on this location nearly 10 years ago. Greeting you at the entrance and ushering you inside, its outstretched and entwining branches flow across cutout frames in the maroon painted facade. When envisioning her own workspace, Gupta chose to create a cosy and quirky cocoon.

DREAMING IN COLOUR

The creative realized it was important to conceptualize an open and connected work environment that helped induce the whimsical and offbeat designs that are quintessential to her practice.