Durga Jagadish, a trained architect, has plenty of experience in the field, having worked in countries like Canada, Bahrain, and India. You can approach her to either add just a splash of the traditional to your space or work with her to redo your space to showcase vernacular elements. Have a piece of old furniture that needs to be restored or even if you want something upcycled to suit modern needs? She has plenty of experience.
For those of you looking for more obvious changes in your home or office, She can offer solutions there too. She, along with husband, runs Mayan Designs — an independent firm in Sanjay Nagar. In the past, she’s reworked even modular spaces to accommodate Indian touches. For example, she has added stunning Kalamkari fabric to decorate door posts or added textures to a space with different kinds of retro tiles.
In a modern apartment, she can reproduce Chettinad pillars and adorn them with twinkling Channapatna tea-lights, to give your home a feeling of warmth and plenty of vintage glamour. She can also convert sleeper wood into dining tables and other pieces of furniture.