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Townhouse Miami, Mahdavi designed a series of restaurants and bars including the Condesa DF Hotel of Mexico City, At the Connaught in London, and Le Germain in Paris. Best known for its 5 meter tall resin silhouette of a woman, Le Germainâs brasserie was accompanied by a 30 person private cinema, both exploring the material possibilities to give identity to the spaces. Whimsical spaces such as Le Germain are no stranger to Mahdavi. Her design work also includes the design of the famous
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showcasing her furniture and different installations.. These furniture lines began in 2003, with a small sample of works, then grew and developed into another exploration, Petits Objets in 2011. Petits Objets includes many different pieces, both functional and decorative, and
Mahdaviâs signature color palette that would be used in many of her designs.
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color.â When choosing colors for a design or space, Mahdavi claims that she likes âwhen colors swear at each other.â To achieve the cartoonish quality that is central to
Mahdaviâs designs, Mahdavi looks to bright colors and matte, flat materialityâopting to use velvet over cotton or linen to absorb the palette sheâs working with.
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restaurantâs sensational recognition, Mahdavi said âI donât want to sound like Iâm boasting, but I changed the way people thought about pink.â When asked about her legacy as a designer, Mahdavi replied âI will probably be remembered as someone who uses color as her own language. The language of freedom. And that is fine with me."
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2011. Using architectural language she translated to a minute scale, Mahdavi worked with the âethically mindedâ company to create a gold voided line. Following this, India worked with several other brands to create ceramics, hardware, and tiles. Some notable projects include the Louis
Vuitton Nomadic Objects, designs with
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Claiming that ânow the only way to be really original is to go to your own library,â Mahdavi seeks inspiration from less frequented places such as her birthplace of Tehran, Iran. Algerian artist, Adel
Abdessemed, labels Mahdaviâs works as âa form of childlike and joyous orientalism inspired by Iran.â
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Regarded as the âqueen of colorâ, Mahdavi is most known for her playful palettes and unwavering use of color in her designs. Ralph Pucci, who has
Mahdaviâs colorful furniture on display at the Ralph Pucci International Gallery says that her âwork has humor, but itâs not 100 percent humor, which would
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Mahdavi's work is a mixture of elegance and cartoonish color. She credits her heritage, worldly upbringing and design study to her notable design style. "You can't pin it down to a specific influence or reference," said Yann Le Coadic, "...Every detail of a space India designs is thought out to the
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In 2014, Mahdavi was hired to design the Sketch
Restaurant at the Gallery of London, a restaurant that goes through a redesign every two years. The restaurant has been dubbed the most shared restaurant in the world on Instagram by many, including India herself. Mahdavi called the space "an immersive
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Shortly before opening her studio in 2000, Mahdavi worked with restaurateur
Jonathan Morr on Townhouse, Miami in 1999. A white slate with bright accent colors, the hotel serves as a backdrop to a âendless summerâ retreat. This first hotel by Mahdavi explored what would later become her thesis; rich,
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wallpaper, it can be seen how
Mahdaviâs work of colors and materials goes beyond what she has explored in her own lines, and that her style transcends into new explorations. Not only using these works to engage with new collaborators, but seeing each as a new design opportunity, different from what
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Mahdavi became more of a household name, opportunities arose for her to collaborate with various designers, brands, and creators. In all of these projects, the signature rich colors and patterns of Mahdaviâs designs can be seen. One of her first collaborations was with JEM, a jewelry designer in
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Despite the social media success of her design at Sketch, India Mahdavi says she hasnât let social media influence the way she works, and instead attributes her Instagram-worthy spaces to her cinematic aspirations. India Mahdavi grew up with a strong affinity for film and at the age of 17, she was
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When it comes to her influences, Mahdavi looks to location and her heritage to drive her design work. She proclaims she is âpolyglot and polychrome.â Polyglotâmeaning she draws inspiration from many different cultures and locations, and polychrome in that she is âlike a chameleon, always changing
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Looking for measurable impact of her work, it can be clearly found the social media success of her projectsâespecially the Sketch Gallery of London. True to Mahdaviâs previous works, the velvety pink space was packed with whimsyâits cool yet bright atmosphere drawing thousands of visitors just to
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Later, Mahdavi met a restaurateur, Jonathan Morr, looking to open a hotel on a small budget â today known as the Townhouse Hotel. She went to Miami to see it and became the designer of the 80 bedroom stay. It would be one of her earliest projects that solidified and set the stage for her interior
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Soon after founding her studio, Mahdavi began with an exploration into furniture pieces, and opened three showrooms along the Rue Las Casas in Paris, France. The first opening in 2003, and then two following in 2011 and 2020. These showrooms serve as windows into the spaces Mahdavi designs, both
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One of Mahdaviâs most notable projects, Sketch at the Gallery of London, turned her into a social media sensation. Central to Mahdaviâs design was a velvety pink that adorned every corner of the space, including her own furniture piece featured, the âCharlotteâ armchair. In regards to the
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going to the movies three times a day, particularly studying the aesthetics of the scenes. In fact, when Mahdavi entered architecture school, she didnât love it and was considering a career in film set design (much like interior designer
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snap the perfect picture with highly sought geotag. In regards to the restaurantâs sensational recognition, Mahdavi said âI donât want to sound like Iâm boasting, but I changed the way people thought about pink.â
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installation of monochrome thought", and said that she wanted people to feel like they were in a film while in the space. Wrapping the walls are 250 drawings by the artist
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make it kitsch. It has sophistication, but itâs not 100 percent sophistication, which would make it predictable. Itâs this perfect balance that makes her work original.â
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