2024
Mehak's Bar
Cosmic conversations mapped onto stone — a bar of constellations, mechanisms, and light.
2025
Mehak's Bar
Mehak's Bar
Cosmic conversations mapped onto stone — a bar of constellations, mechanisms, and light.
Cosmic conversations mapped onto stone — a bar of constellations, mechanisms, and light.
2024
Mehak's Bar
Cosmic conversations mapped onto stone — a bar of constellations, mechanisms, and light.
2025
Mehak's Bar
Cosmic conversations mapped onto stone — a bar of constellations, mechanisms, and light.
Stars in orbit, circles aligned,
Planets converse with earth in kind.
A sun to turn, a moon to glow,
A cosmos carved for gatherings slow.
I am a cabinet, I am a sky,
A telescope for the curious eye.
Celestial above, terrestrial below,
I hold the night in an inlaid flow.
Stars in orbit, circles aligned,
Planets converse with earth in kind.
A sun to turn, a moon to glow,
A cosmos carved for gatherings slow.
I am a cabinet, I am a sky,
A telescope for the curious eye.
Celestial above, terrestrial below,
I hold the night in an inlaid flow.
Stars in orbit, circles aligned,
Planets converse with earth in kind.
A sun to turn, a moon to glow,
A cosmos carved for gatherings slow.
I am a cabinet, I am a sky,
A telescope for the curious eye.
Celestial above, terrestrial below,
I hold the night in an inlaid flow.
An art piece was where it began
The bar then becoming, a universe of its own.
A voluminous body of wood and sandstone,
Black top warming down to red - shifting like sky at dawn.
For a celestial and cosmology enthusiast, a bespoke piece to engage & play
Multiple layers of movements and meanings built-in, an ice-breaker to conversations.
A stained form to feel terrestrial, holding weight and mass,
With movements carved into cabinetry & a rising copper telescope.
For a celestial and cosmology enthusiast, a bespoke piece to engage & play
Multiple layers of movements and meanings built-in, an ice-breaker to conversations.
A stained form to feel terrestrial, holding weight and mass,
With movements carved into cabinetry & a rising copper telescope.
While designing, I knew that it could not have a standard key hole or lock mechanism. I wanted something like a sculpture, like a make-believe magical lock that becomes a part of this graphic language, this experience. So the lock is an owl, a magnetic lock that can be placed anywhere, and when it is placed in the right niche, it opens up the cabinet.
- Chitra
We continued the conversation of astrology, zodiacs and cosmic movements in the wall paintings as well, we wanted to build the experience of the entire space, and not just a piece of furniture. Wall-painting in natural colours was a first for us, and in natural pigments, the colours are visible only after they dry up completely. It was a meticulous and layered process of painting and repainting till we achieved the right imagery.
- Swapnil
While designing, I knew that it could not have a standard key hole or lock mechanism. I wanted something like a sculpture, like a make-believe magical lock that becomes a part of this graphic language, this experience. So the lock is an owl, a magnetic lock that can be placed anywhere, and when it is placed in the right niche, it opens up the cabinet.
- Chitra
We continued the conversation of astrology, zodiacs and cosmic movements in the wall paintings as well, we wanted to build the experience of the entire space, and not just a piece of furniture. Wall-painting in natural colours was a first for us, and in natural pigments, the colours are visible only after they dry up completely. It was a meticulous and layered process of painting and repainting till we achieved the right imagery.
- Swapnil
Two mirrored faces
One emerging from the world of buildings,
Cultivated land and smoke -
Other dissolving in skies and rivers,
Amidst the plant life unknown
A map of artifice and instinct
In a tactile interplay of pause & interaction.
The universe lit up, but an assortment of lights
A glowing moon, a moving sun - a peephole leading to a kaleidoscope.
The universe lit up, but an assortment of lights
A glowing moon, a moving sun - a peephole leading to a kaleidoscope.
The universe lit up, but an assortment of lights
A glowing moon, a moving sun - a peephole leading to a kaleidoscope.
Two mirrored faces
One emerging from the world of buildings,
Cultivated land and smoke -
Other dissolving in skies and rivers,
Amidst the plant life unknown
A map of artifice and instinct
In a tactile interplay of pause & interaction.
Two mirrored faces
One emerging from the world of buildings,
Cultivated land and smoke -
Other dissolving in skies and rivers,
Amidst the plant life unknown
A map of artifice and instinct
In a tactile interplay of pause & interaction.
