Issue 09 — Contemporary Interiors & Design Practice

We don't design spaces.
We compose experiences.

A contemporary interiors and design practice founded by an artist–designer duo. We highlight individualistic expression through form, movement and palette.

Editorial interior with sculptural furniture and warm plaster walls — Plate 01Studio archive

§ 01 — About us

Founders

A creative duo — artist and designer — composing interiors as living works of art.

Creative Director · Interiors

Nikhaar / Dhawan

Nikhaar Dhawan brings an off-the-beaten-track sensibility to the world of interiors, shaped by years of experience across fashion, costume design, art curation, and visual storytelling. With an instinctive understanding of form, texture, movement, and composition, she approaches spaces much like living works of art — immersive, emotive, and profoundly personal.

Having worked extensively as a fashion and costume designer, Nikhaar developed a refined eye for detail, materiality, and the interplay of aesthetics and functionality. Her involvement in the world of art and curation further expanded her visual language. As Creative Director at Bahaar's gallery, she contributes to the conceptualization, curation and presentation of contemporary artistic experiences.

Her design philosophy is rooted in individuality and innovation. With a keen eye for detail and a natural flair for aesthetics, Nikhaar brings a unique creative vision to spaces — refined, experiential, with a curious handling of lines, layering and lumière.

Artist · Curator · Spatial Storyteller

Bahaar / Dhawan Rohatgi

Bahaar Dhawan Rohatgi is an artist, curator, and spatial storyteller whose creative journey began in the world of law before she chose to fully embrace her innate calling as an artist. A professional full-time artist since 2014, she has spent over 15 years building a deeply personal and distinctive visual language, with her works now residing in over 500 homes and private collections across India and internationally.

With more than 40 exhibitions and showcases to her name in India and abroad, Bahaar has expanded her artistic vision through fashion, brand collaborations, and her own studio-art gallery — a space dedicated to immersive artistic dialogue and contemporary expression. Alongside her art practice, she has been intuitively creating and designing spaces for years, bringing together art, emotion, balance, and energy into environments that feel deeply human and transformative.

Her approach to interiors goes beyond aesthetics; each space she creates is conceived as an extension of the client's individuality and self-expression, thoughtfully responding to the energy the space is meant to hold. Rooted in artistry, sensitivity, and spatial harmony, Bahaar's work blends contemporary design with soulful storytelling — resulting in spaces that are layered, evocative, and profoundly alive.

Portrait of Bahaar Dhawan Rohatgi — Portrait · 02Bahaar

Together, Nikhaar and Bahaar are creating a visual vocabulary — layering colours, textures, objects and art into spaces that feel both sophisticated and soulful; richly evocative, visually compelling, and emotionally resonant.

Intersection

Form / Feeling

Intersection

Restraint / Risk

Intersection

Precision / Play

§ 02 — Services

The practice

Five disciplines, one sensibility. Each engagement is shaped to the site, the brief and the people — never to a template.

Art-Led Interior Design
End-to-end spatial design rooted in artistic thinking — from concept through styling.
Interior Styling & Curation
For spaces that need artistic refinement and sprucing up with new life.
Art Advisory
Sourcing and placing household effects and accoutrements that transform environments and tell a story.
Concept Consulting
For architects, brands, and collectors seeking a distinct design language.
Creative Vāstu Solutions
Considered, contemporary interpretations of vāstu — design that flows in harmony.