Step inside this Mumbai home designed by Ashiesh Shah | AD India

The apartment, the home of a self-made billionaire and his wife, is located in a new building on Altamount Road, aptly known as Mumbai’s Billionaires’ Row. Inside, quiet luxury rules. The various wall treatments that Shah has employed throughout the space, which include parchment, embroidery, marble and wood, are part of his mission to bring warmth and character to what was essentially a vast and featureless empty shell, with full-height metal-framed windows, sharp corners and a rectangular floor plan. He countered this by creating a series of curved walls and screens, to “break free from the boxiness of the rooms”; a device which not only brings much-needed softness and flow, but also serves to subtly separate the rooms and delineate the public areas from the private spaces beyond.