In Mumbai, designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla make space for a larger creative universe with ‘A Wonder Room’
Designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla have opened a new flagship store and gallery in Mumbai called 'A Wonder Room' to celebrate four decades of their couture house. The space aims to blur the lines between fashion, art, architecture, and craft by curating a multidisciplinary environment.
Why it matters
This reflects a growing trend in luxury retail where physical spaces are transformed into immersive cultural experiences rather than traditional storefronts.
A mythical brass city hangs upside down, an ivory Shola tree blooms indoors, while the Mumbai skyline becomes a gilded promenade, while an archive unfolds through the geometry of Indian stepwells. This is Mubarak Baug, Mumbai-based designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla’s new 20,000-square-foot Mumbai flagship — a maximalist dream that marks four decades of their couture house.
Mubarak Baug is not A Wonder Room, the duo’s new art and design gallery, but it offers perhaps the clearest glimpse yet of the thinking behind it: a belief that art, craft, architecture, objects and fashion need not stay in their respective corners.
Bringing together art, craft, furniture, textiles, lighting and commissioned works, the gallery allows the designers to curate, collaborate and commission beyond couture.
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