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The Big Door store in Mumbai houses handcrafted home decor
You needn’t make a trip to the palaces of Rajasthan, for all that glitters and is glorious can be found at this new Pali Hill store, all ready for some extreme customisation to suit your whims and fancy. A sizeable 7,500sqft of space revels in time travel as connoisseurs Vivek and Sunita Gupta load The Big Door with the finest in Indian jewellery, handcrafted home decor and heritage collectibles. Here’s to making the stately grandeur a part of your everyday life
What can one expect to find at the Big Door?
The Big Door is a distinctive store that brings to Mumbai fantastic Indian art, offering the best of Indian jewellery, handcrafted home decor and heritage collectibles.
The store houses Mughal, Nizam and Rajput-inspired jewels, and interior alternates from around the country—silver furniture inspired from the Raj period, marble fountains and jalis, traditional pichwais from Rajasthan, bronze work from south India, Persian calligraphic fauna, antiques and intricate woodwork.
Who are you targeting with this store?
We have a diverse collection in jewellery as well as artifacts. Our target audience is anyone who has an eye for Indian art – collectors, and people who appreciate the craftsmanship of Indian artifacts and jewellery.
What would you consider is your USP that would drive exclusive clients to become part of your loyal customer base?
· We are the only store in Mumbai that will customise something as unique as doors and ceilings for our clients. These are inspired from traditional doors that were used in havelis, forts and palaces of India. The ceilings are inspired from antique mirror and hand painted wooden ceilings that were found in darbars in the mughal era.
· We are one outlet that does a vast and varied collection of silver furniture and artifacts such as sofa sets, thrones with foot stools, roman stools and four poster beds.
· Apart from the silver furniture, ceilings and doors, we make sure not to repeat any of the other artifacts. Once sold to a specific customer, we do not repeat the designs so as to maintain the exclusivity factor for the buyer.
Could you fill us in on the customisation services? Bespoke facades?
· Our bespoke ceilings and doors can be customised in any colour, dimension and design desired by the client. It takes about 45-90 days for the piece to be ready.
· Grand furniture is often picked out for holiday homes. Knowing that properties in Mumbai are insufficient to house large furniture, hence we customise.
· With the silver furniture, we have an after-sales service for our customers where we send a team of professionals to do the cleaning and polishing of the silver furniture.
Bespoke services at The Big Door extend into the realms of ceilings and doors
The store has been conceptualised to reverberate with the grandeur of the products and services…
… Yes, the idea was to offer a palatial feel at the store that transports one to a richness of the past. Many pieces displayed at the store draw inspiration and have been replicated from the Mughal, Rajput and the Gandharva period.
Could you list some designers or collections exclusive to The Big Door?
The Big Door is a flagship store in Mumbai, Ravi gems and jewellery are our exclusive jewellery partners and Mayur arts are our exclusive furniture/artifacts partners.
The Big Door, M Square, Plot No 246, Dr Ambedkar Road, Khar (West), Mumbai.
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