在12月初的一个早晨，安库尔·科斯拉(Annkur Khosla)给我们的早餐会议带来了清新、新鲜的活力，她告诉AD，阳光公寓项目是如何偶然来到她身边的。几年前，她和丈夫在巴黎度假，“住在一家装饰艺术风格的酒店，建筑最原始，豪斯曼大楼的彩色玻璃窗。”就在那时，我接到了房主的电话，问我是否愿意为她在阳光市的五楼公寓做室内设计，”科斯拉说，并补充道，“这有点神秘”——这是这位修行的佛教徒经常使用的一个词。
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阳光公寓本身就处于风口浪尖。它俯瞰着宏伟的椭圆形广场，所有文明的人都在这里打板球。Mantralaya在它的左边，对面是新哥特式的高等法院大楼，另一边是维多利亚哥特式的Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu sanggrahalaya博物馆。从这栋五楼的公寓里，可以欣赏到超越时间和建筑风格的豪华风景。阳光大厦建于20世纪20年代，代表了孟买的装饰艺术浪潮，当时进步的商人和企业家开始探索这种华丽的建筑风格，并将其带回自己的家乡。科斯拉对装饰风格的深入研究恰逢其时。当她开始创作《阳光》时，孟买对装饰艺术的兴趣正在重新燃起，这在一定程度上要归功于2016年成立的非营利组织孟买装饰艺术协会(art deco Mumbai)。2018年，经过长期努力，联合国教科文组织宣布海洋大道和椭圆形广场周围的装饰艺术建筑为世界遗产。阳光是一个未被破坏的遗产项目，建于20世纪20年代的某个时候。它本身也有一系列挑战，”她说。 “We had to be extremely careful while strengthening the structure. It had to be done incrementally and certainly not like an invasion.” Yet this wasn't a pure restoration project. It was someone's home, a husband and wife's, and it had to be functional and practical and beautiful and simply a home. “I feel passionately about having the homeowners appreciate the movement as well; that you're sitting in a building that belongs to an era, but it's also extremely liveable and relevant to the present moment and their lives.”
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科斯拉在空间和流动方面很有创意。入口门厅以最小的地板图案和巧妙的橡木凹槽背景打开，其中隐藏了一个壁橱空间。从门厅往前走，人们会看到一个镜像隔断，它通向用餐空间，镶有类似的棱纹效果。开放式阳台由两根爱奥尼亚柱头柱支撑着，装饰艺术风格的烤架也恢复了原来的辉煌。装饰艺术作为一种运动，以创造自己的硬件而闻名，科斯拉当然对此感到高兴。黄铜门把手、门把手、钥匙孔和房子周围的木工细节都是设计师的迷你项目。公寓尽头的门上有一个高大优雅的黄铜把手，它本身就是一个雕塑。她笑着说道:“设计这些游戏对我来说是一种高潮。然而，这个空间的亮点是设计师延伸的持续一致的视觉语言。从地板和定制家具到没有地毯的地毯，再到艺术品的安装方式——特别定制的不是平面，而是波浪墙——都是科斯拉装饰实验的一部分。 She radically cropped out the carpet and simply left a border running along the patterned floors, “essentially using a carpet to bind the entire space together.” Art deco was a movement of innovation and breakthroughs from old norms, and Khosla has clearly slipped her own avant-garde ideas into the scheme. “If you notice the window frames, we padded them up, to strengthen them, of course, but also to add that staggered wood aesthetic that is more typical of art deco rather than flat wood,” she adds. She also did away with curtains completely. “In the den, I took an artwork and put it on a sliding panel, which if you open, you see the skyline outside, and if you shut, you cut all glare and noise of the outside. The wooden screens in classic geometric patterns work as partitions to transform private rooms into one open, flowing, public space, their varying wood finishes adding a subtle texture and depth. Khosla's interventions have a sense of humour. They also have a rhythm and flow in which she clearly believes—in design and in life.
