The client walked in, looked around the empty shell, and said eight words: “Make it very chic. That’s all.”
No references, no Pinterest, no 40-page brief. Just a vibe. We took that and ran, turning a 4,000 sq ft box in the middle of Delhi into something that feels closer to a private contemporary art space than a store. You walk in and immediately forget you’re here to shop.
The architecture revolves around four raw micro-concrete walls, each over two metres tall, standing like silent sculptures in the centre of the room. Above them floats a diagonal steel bridge that stitches the mezzanine together. Concrete that looks like it could crush you; steel that looks like it could slice the air. Our task was to find the light that could live comfortably between those two extremes.
Vibrant Technik turned the entire double-height ceiling into one continuous sheet of Stretch fabric. Beneath it, layers of LED panels throw perfectly even, shadowless light across every surface. From the moment you step inside, the space is washed in a calm, diffused glow with no hot spots, no visible fittings, no drama. The concrete stops feeling cold and heavy; the steel stops feeling sharp. Everything just breathes.
People linger. They take photos without meaning to. They speak more quietly than they do in most stores. The light is soft enough that skin looks good, clothes look expensive, and the brutalist concrete somehow feels welcoming. You cross the steel bridge and the view down onto those monoliths, bathed in that hazy luminescence, is the kind of moment that makes you pause mid-sentence.
The best compliment we’ve received isn’t about the ceiling or the output levels.It’s when someone says, “I didn’t even notice the lighting.” Exactly. When light disappears into the architecture and quietly does its job, the space gets to be the star. And this one, thankfully, steals the show every single day.
