Space Design Awards is back with its ninth edition, honouring the best in interior design worldwide. The award-winning Indian interior designer Sumessh Menon is among the jury panel this year. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Mumbai on 22nd February 2019. Sumessh has been part of the jury for Space Design Awards since its inception and believes it is essential to recognize and celebrate excellence in interior design. “Design has always been an important part of my life – I’ve been designing furniture since college. So, when I was approached to be a part of the jury for the Space Design Awards, I didn’t hesitate for a second. The awards are an important platform that recognizes and celebrates excellence in interior design,” he says.
Space Design Awards, one of the most prestigious design awards in the world, has announced Sumessh Menon as the winner of the residential interior designer category. Sumessh is an award-winning interior designer who has worked in this field for over a decade. He started his firm, “Studio Sumessh”, in 2007 and has since been providing elegant and functional interior design solutions to his clients. His work has been featured in several magazines and won several awards, including Space Design Awards.
Sumessh Menon is an award-winning interior designer specializing in Indian architecture and design. He has won several awards for his work, including the prestigious Design Excellence Award from the India chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Menon’s work is highly influenced by Indian culture and tradition and is dedicated to preserving and promoting India’s unique architectural heritage. His projects have been featured in numerous publications, and he is widely recognized as one of India’s leading architects.
Sumessh Menon is an award-winning interior designer who has been featured in several design awards in India. He is the founder of Sumessh Menon & Associates, a space design firm that specializes in residential and commercial interiors. His work has been recognized for its innovative use of space and materials, and he has won several awards for his innovative designs.
Luxury is subjective. In most cases. When it comes to materialistic possessions luxury equals the ‘experience’ the possession has to offer. Take for instance a home.
A home that offers one comforts in XXL proportions is luxury. So yes, luxury isn’t using gold finished fittings. It’s using sensor operated fittings. Luxury isn’t a massive bathtub made in onyx. Luxury is a bathtub that understands the water temperature you prefer, plays music according to your mood and massages your shoulders.
Here is my Take 5 on essentials for a luxury home, Sumessh Menon style!
The kind where you can make your own draught beer.
When you are talking luxury and comfort, you cannot have a mini-bar tucked away somewhere in a corner. You got to go all out with this one. Besides a fabulous display of your liquor collection, invest in an ice maker, draught beer making machine, built in wine chillers, and the works. Luxury is all about entertaining guests in style.
The basic of luxury
With Alexa becoming a household companion, automation is no longer a luxury. But well, it adds comfort in unbelievable proportions so its here on the list! Gadgets, appliances, lighting, window dressings, all need to hear you. Voice recognition controls is a must. Household help is no more dependable. Let’s move to technology.
Lets ditch onyx. Please, please, please!
In fact I’d even give the Carrara and the Italian marbles all a miss and go for exotic marbles likes Brazilian marble or South African stones for a real luxury home. Its just like the tourism industry. Europe is done to death. South American countries or South Africa is more luxury. Bring on the exclusive stuff!
That remember your perfect seat position!
Toilet seats and bidets with indulgent features like heated seats, memorised seat positions, self-cleaning nozzles, adjustable water temperature and water pressure, remote control, adjustable nozzle position, etc. are a must for a luxury home. Toto had introduced the concept in Japan and now leading brands like Duravit also have a fabulous range in these. Go get them!
Can’t do without a conversation piece!
We all know that the right lighting can totally make or break a space and enhance its luxe factor by focussing on the essentials. But a must have for a luxury home is a ‘statement’ light fitting. Be it a classic chandelier, a drop dead gorgeous pendant light or an artistic wall light, a statement light fitting is a piece of art that stirs conversations plenty. It adds oomph to a space!
We have experimented with lights made out of Indian blown glass at Koko and its been an eye-catcher. We love to custom make our light fittings.
The lion’s den
Whats a luxury home without a gentleman’s bar and media room that is packed with gadgets? Bedrooms are all designed with the women in mind, with full length mirrors, walk in wardrobes and elegant bathrooms. The boys need some space and what better way to give that to them that than a space dedicated to their needs? Women, don’t get upset, that means less cluttered bedrooms and living rooms and no extra wires anywhere. It’s a win win!
Sumeesh Menon is a leading interior designer in the country and founder of Sumessh Menon Associates, a firm that specializes in high end and bespoke residential, commercial and hospitality interiors. Sumessh is recognized as one of the top Hospitality Interior designers in the country, and is probably one of the few interior design firms in India that have such a stylish yet practical approach to design.
He has a very sensuous style of design and his creations are bold yet sleek, and make an artsy style statement. He likes to individually conceive his designs and meticulously crafts the details of each so no two designs look the same.
Be it the some of the trendiest restaurants in Mumbai, record breaking lounges and bars or high end residences, Sumeesh Menon has made his mark across categories, design sensibilities and mastered the art of seducing through design.
Some of his recent well-known projects include restaurants and bars like POH, Koko, Keiba, Masala Bar and Trilogy 2.o.
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