Arjun Rathi Design

The Sugar Collection draws inspiration from our emotional connect with food. Almost everyone has some nostalgic memory of Indian desserts and our indigenous candy and the collection aims to explore textures and colours of the food-scape to design lighting. The Bullseye collection inspired from the Bullseye candy, typical signature of its black/red and white stripes. The collection recreates the candy in hand blown glass with customisation.

Idiomatic to any festive mood, the Indian Motichoor Ladoo inspired the texture and form of the wall and ceiling flush mount fittings. The handmade ceramic bowl, which can be Glazed or Matt, customisable in colours, and blown glass globes combine to create the fitting.

The Paan, was once thought of as a symbol of Indian Royalty. The series explores the folding patterns of the beetle leaf in leather and other woven materials combined with hand-blown glass and metal frames. The hand-casted detail of the clove in brass forms the signature of the paan edition, tying the forms together.

The Candy collection takes inspiration from the broad spectrum of pop-coloured Indian candies, namely the Orange candy, Pan Pasand and Poppins, to explore ombre colours in glass combined with customisable frames.

The signature mould of indigenous Indian chocolate slabs inspire the form of the Chocolate edition to create a series of wallscones and ceiling flush mount fittings which can used in various combinations to illuminate any space.

The Mobil format is a customisable extension to the Bullseye, Candy and Paan series to create hanging light fixtures, comprised of interlocking metal frames. The Calder-esque lighting formats, though in stasis, appear in different formations from different points of view and look to imbibe "motion" and "motive".

The Wanderer; an installation designed for a fine-dining Pan-Asian restaurant called Kembara, Hyderabad, India. Taking inspiration from the shapes of Pan-asian food, the 42 meter long lighting installation comprises of over 300 hand-crafted wooden pieces using the Indian Channapatna craft, combined with hand-blown glass, flowing through the volume of the restaurant. The installation forms the main focal point and lighting source.

The Baukunst Grid Light creates the ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure customised in brass and black steel designed to frame the bedroom for a residence in India.

"Gulmohar Bloom" installation comprises of casted brass branches with glass rondels inspired from the Indian Gulmohar Flower. The hand-blown glass mix colours of vermillion, gulmohar yellow and orange with marble finished glass globes to balance out the lighting designed for the pre-function area of the Almond Banquet, Kolkatta. The botanical installation spans across 1300 square feet of ceiling area.

The colors of cast glass are rich and luminous, with an ethereal quality that seems to glow from within. The pieces designed for The Almond are translucent, allowing light to pass through and casting a soft, diffused glow. It's a material that invites the viewer to look closer, to appreciate the intricate details and subtle nuances of its form and color. A medium that combines the technical skill with the natural beauty of the material.