When two icons of Indian design—Sabyasachi Mukherjee and Asian Paints—collaborated to create the Art Foundation Gallery, the goal wasn’t to build just another exhibition space. It was to craft an emotional environment—one that captures the essence of Indian artistry through colour, texture, and light.
The gallery was envisioned as an immersive world: tactile, timeless, and deeply rooted in heritage. Every surface, tone, and reflection had to carry meaning. Light, especially, became the invisible thread tying everything together.
Sabyasachi’s design philosophy celebrates imperfection, layering, and craftsmanship, while Asian Paints brings the science of colour and finish. Vibrant Technik entered this dialogue as the technical partner—responsible for transforming the lighting concept into a living, breathing atmosphere.
The challenge was to achieve an even, diffused illumination that felt natural and emotional, not mechanical. The lighting needed to enhance art without flattening it, complement detail without competing with it. This is where our stretch ceiling systems became fundamental to the design.
Vibrant Technik installed precision-engineered stretch ceilings across key areas of the gallery. The flexible membrane technology allowed a continuous, glare-free light plane—smooth, seamless, and acoustically balanced.
Unlike traditional ceiling systems, stretch ceilings create a calm, consistent diffusion, eliminating harsh shadows and reflections, allowing visitors to truly feel the space rather than just see it.
The ceilings were custom-matched to the warm undertones of the gallery palette, blending with the colour story curated by Asian Paints. The integration was so refined that the ceiling itself disappears leaving behind only the ambience it shapes.
Visitors describe the gallery as a space that “breathes.” The soft glow of light invites focus, reflection, and stillness, qualities central to both Sabyasachi’s and Asian Paints’ creative worlds.
Each room feels considered, yet effortless. The materials, finishes, and lighting all align toward one goal: making the art, and not the architecture, the hero.
The project stands as proof that when design and engineering meet shared purpose, light transforms from a technical necessity into an emotional language.
In this project, light wasn’t a fixture but a feeling. Our job was to make it invisible, to shape it without calling attention to the mechanism. That’s where precision meets empathy, where engineering quietly enables art.
