These chairs have been created without the help of any screws or bolts

Tiling success
“I was working on furniture a lot at the time, and wanted to experiment. That was when I decided to get an embroidered wooden tile wall fixed in the store in Mumbai. It has been created by a technique patented by me where the concave and convex patterns are formed on the wood as wood craft. There are nearly 700 patterns on each tile,” he shares.

 The Yantra tattoos (intrinsic to Thailand) have been used on leather for one of the sections of the wall in the Bangkok store;

After the completion of the first store, Shroff, who received his undergraduate degree in Architecture at Cornell University, and followed it up with a Masters in Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, got on board for the French footwear designer’s Bangkok store.

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Shroff has used several Indian motifs in Christian Louboutin’s Bangkok store as well. Pics courtesy/Rooshad Shroff

“This project had a lot of handmade, well-crafted elements. While there are Thai and French influences, Indian aspects are thrown in between as well with mirror tikri work, hand-cut marble tiles for the façade, etc,” says the architect, who has also used Thailand’s Yantra tattoos on leather for one of the walls.

Rooshad Shroff, architect

Apart from this, Shroff has invested his energies in creating avant-garde furniture designs like chairs without screws and bolts, and tables craved out of single marble slabs. “I like using a lot of wood, marble, embroidery and the art of carpentry for my work. I feel it is our moral responsibility to promote our crafts and techniques,” believes Shroff, while admitting that it wasn’t easy to get his karigars to craft such chairs and tables since it involved moving them out of their comfort zones to create contemporary work, all of which needed a lot of patience.