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At Address Home, interior designer Rajat Singhi’s chic store in Delhi’s Khan Market, luxuriant tableware with pure gold and platinum embossing vies for attention with delicate champagne flutes from Polish high-end brand LSA.

Singhi’s forte is luxe contemporary design trend, a blend of contemporary minimalism and high-end luxury. He’s created elegant beds with acrylic headboards cut to perfection using laser beams while contemporary curios come in mother-of-pearl and industrial polymer. “I love to see patrons appreciate my design philosophy,” says Singhi, the 30-year-old creative director of Address Home.

Singhi is the scion of the 15-year-old home accessories and furnishings brand, Taurus Home, that manufactures stylised home linen for international biggies like Harrods in the UK and Bloomingdales in the US. He informally joined the family business at 16 starting by getting the hang of manufacturing and production business and learning the tricks of marketing niche luxe products.

But he took off for the US to arm himself with a degree in finance from the Wharton School of Business. Thereafter he worked as an investment banker in California. “In the US I was creating a lot of money instead of colours and textures and was longing to return,” he recalls.

He returned to Taurus Home as CEO and began working in league with the cutting-edge design teams of international home furnishing stores. He was soon creating products with a global sensibility for brands like Crate&Barrel, Z Gallerie and Neiman Marcus.

Singhi introduced geometric designs and textured fabrics in the home linen collection while the furniture lines displayed a Provencal French and Baroque influence.

The designer’s signature can now be seen in his new venture christened Address Home with outlets in Hauz Khas and Khan Market in Delhi and Raghuvanshi Mills in Mumbai. On the anvil are stores in Calcutta, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, London and New York early next year

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Singhi’s love for minimalism reflects itself in his clutter-free furniture lines, sculpture, tableware and accent pieces. However, he has used luxurious materials to create them. “The idea is to be subtle and luxuriant at the same time,” explains Singhi. So the look is extravagant with real platinum and gold embossing on china to accent pieces in copper.

This quirky philosophy is translated into reality by his team of 12 in-house designers (headed by Singhi) along with visiting designers from several London and New York-based design agencies.

Keeping a strict eye on global interior design trends Singhi says: “Plum is the hottest colour on the ramps and is making its presence felt in décor too,” he says.

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The designer has blended several fabrics like velvet, satin, silk, polyester and cotton creating an unusual mix of textures on luxuriant bed covers, hand-quilted to perfection, priced upwards of Rs 9,000.

A huge sculpture shaped like a bowl in mother-of-pearl and industrial polymer will set you back by Rs 35,000. And the neat black bed with its exaggerated headboard made with acrylic comes at Rs 65,000. In the crockery department, a dinner set for six with platinum, gold and silver embossing starts at Rs 20,000.