His bedazzling furniture store in Lower Parel, spread over several thousand square feet, is devoted to home furnishings and interiors.
Pinakin Patel might be small-built but his brain is hyperactive with ideas that are out to give his customers a buzz. His latest brain-child, ‘The Fashion of Furniture’, sees the marriage of two diverse yet not completely unrelated fields – home furnishings and haute couture.
Pinakin has gotten Rohit Bal to give him an outfit from Bal’s recent collection and designed furniture around it. The furniture designer landed up in Delhi and persuaded Tarun Tahiliani to part with one of his precious creations so that he could be inspired to create a piece of furniture around it.
Patel met Wendell Rodricks at a party in Mumbai and explained the concept to him, whereupon Rodricks agreed to loan him a white dress. Other designers who inspired Pinakin are Narendra Kumar Ahmed and Abraham and Thakore.
“When I started out working with furniture two-and-a-half decades ago, the fashion industry was still nascent in this country and furniture was big. In these last 25 years, fashion has exploded and furniture is now nipping closely at its heels. What better way to pay a tribute to fashion than to design furniture around it?” states the designer.
Accordingly, he has interpreted the designers in the most creative way possible eg. Rohit Bal’s white flowing skirt with embroidered jacket inspired a deep divan in white, Tarun Tahiliani’s bright pink and orange dress was recreated as a larger-than-life framed mosaic mirror and for Wendell Rodricks, Pinakin created a semi-outdoor verandah setting with wooden sofas upholstered in white cotton “with the feel of Goa.”
Naturally, the furniture is gorgeous, as are the dresses. “It’s a reflection of our times when there’s a sense of celebration in the air. It is a euphoria which is the opposite of minimalism and these furniture designs reflect that,” says Pinakin of his creations. “These pieces are indulgent, sensuous, luxurious, voluptuous, the textiles are fluffier and there’s an urge to ornament.”
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