St+art India Foundation, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, and Avid Learning invite you to be a part of a unique panel discussion, Motifs, Materials & Makers of Art Deco Architecture
The image above is from a beautiful Art Deco staircase, part of a building at the Sassoon Dock, ready to welcome you to the Mumbai Urban Art Festival. The discussion inspired by the staircase will be in continuation of our successful full-day workshop in November last year, looking at conservation efforts to help the Deco architecture survive and thrive.
Smooth lines, geometric shapes, streamlined forms, and bright colors. Unabashedly bold with an ever-glamorous decorating style, Art Deco architecture is easily distinguishable with its gilded details, rich textures, and geometric patterns. Today, we have around 200 Art Deco structures in Mumbai - from apartment buildings to theatres, schools, hotels, and clubs, second only to Miami.
With the Loksatta Building staircase as a muse, join us for a unique panel discussion with experts influencing, restoring, conserving, and bringing back conversations around Art Deco inspiring the makers of today and revitalizing the details of everyday life as well as high-design.
We believe that architecture is the living extension and physical representation of who we are as a culture and as a people. Mumbai is a treasure trove of architectural heritage, boasting the enigmatic Victorian Gothic ensemble including the CSMT and Art Deco edifices. They form an integral part of the city's cultural ecosystem and can be infinitely enriched with local dialogue and cross-pollination with other cultural contexts. In this respect, we regularly collaborate with architects, local historians, intellectuals, visiting international scholars, and institutions. Whether it's a full-day workshop decoding the motifs, materials, and makers of Deco or a lecture demonstration on radically sustainable plans from Bombay's unbuilt past, or discovering architectural gems and Naval enclaves within a city anchored by the Indian Ocean, our programs actively immerse the enthusiastic participants in celebrating the built heritage and legacy of Mumbai, India, and beyond.