This Design Duo’s Home/Office in New Delhi Exudes Warmth

Interior and furniture designers Brian DeMuro and Puru Das distinguish themselves by deftly translating age-old Indian craft techniques and iconographies in spaces and objects that reflect contemporary and modern aesthetics. It’s a central feature of their eponymously named DeMuro Das studio. For the business and life partners, it’s all about rooting their forward-thinking concepts in history and utilizing the best quality components. While their limited edition tables, chairs, and credenzas reflect a careful interplay of sumptuous materials, textures, and colors, their interiors are imagined with a level of restrained eclecticism. Though pared back and sophisticated in composition, the practice’s residential projects exude a level of warmth and personality. It’s an approach best exemplified in their own, recently completed, New Delhi apartment, complete with a home office.

Situated on the 3rd floor of a 1950s modernist villa in the Indian capital’s up-market Jor Bagh neighborhood, the 2,700-square-foot flat was gut renovated and meticulously re-designed as a calling card entertainment space and design studio. DeMuro and Das reside on the floor below. The duo devised a design scheme that would both reflect their background as former New Yorkers and respond to these surroundings.

“We wanted this space to both embody our brand but also act as a crucible for new design projects,” says Das. “The apartment, of course, houses a number of key pieces in our furniture collection but we also designed and produced all of the millwork, doors, and even some of the lights and hardware as a way to showcase the breadth of our capabilities.”