An apartment done up on a shoe-string budge, I found a number of pieces of an antique chandelier rummaging in an antique store. I then hung them up with brass chains from the ceiling to create an installation Avi named “Rain’
The window ledge within the iron grills Ash filled with spider lily plants. For curtains he chose orange silk, done in the style of roman blinds
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The elaborately carved top of an antique glass fronted low cupboard
The two chairs in the foreground are made of cardboard and collapsible. They were further enhanced by a Swiss artist, who together with his wife, painted themselves with green paint and sat upon the two chairs, leaving the green forms of their postu
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In this apartment, the entrance area was entirely covered with textured bricks that then ran along the walls of the living room to a height of about four feet. I had the foyer painted purple and continued the purple on the textured bricks along the
The living room leading into a corridor, with silver painted wooden pillars framed against orange silk. The poster on the wall is a lithograph of a film Tasveer (Mirror) made in Mumbai in the 1950’s that used to grace the walls of the film theatre w
A host of artificial white gerbera flowers mounted on thin steel rods splay themselves across the living dual tone walls. To the right, a contemporary Art Deco lamp. Upper left is part of the lithograph mentioned earlier in this series of pictures
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The top of the kitchen cabinet with it’s wooden carvings. Atop the cabinet top rest three trolls, a tall crystal vase filled with artificial sunflowers, a candle stand, an amphora and an antique framed print with a roman theme
The very same kitchen cabinet surface replete with glass vases, decanters and candle stands, both antique and contemporary
The corridor that leads from the living room to the bedroom is graced by tall doric wooden pillars painted silver, with the space between the pillars lined with orange silk
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The shower curtain in the bathroom that has a door to the pillar lined corridor. The plastic shower curtain has pockets in it, which I filled with art photography of male nudes
A lime green plate in a dishrack placed by the window of the blue open plan kitchen. A wind chime hangs from the ledge above the window sill; the wooden crescent is a part of that wind chime that is buffeted by the wind to create music
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The bedroom curtains are made of parrot green silk and liberally festooned with 1” round mirrors embroidered on using pink thread. A tall Art Deco lamp in front of these curtains sheds light on the curtains
A crystal glass frog and rooster, both from Baccarat alongside an antique gold lacquer box in the bedroom that I had painted fuschia, to work together with the purple and chartreuse of the living room and the orange of the corridor
An antique fan painted silver spins around suspended from the royal blue ceiling of the fuschia walled bedroom
Spider lilies bursting out through the living room window grills into the vast freedom outside
An indoor adenium in full bloom
The living room at night, taken from the open plan kitchen. Here one sees the pair of lithographs for the hindi film Tasveer (Mirror), both same, yet slightly different in nuances of colouring
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