From the Taj Mahal Palace to Gurugram: David Rockwell's work in India

Rockwell Group's list of projects has two Indian addresses: the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel in Mumbai and The Clubhouse at The Camellias in Gurugram. Both belong to a practice that David Rockwell started in New York in 1984 on one conviction, that every place deserves its own story before it gets its own floor plan. He found the idea backstage, where a choreographer mother put him in community shows as a boy, and in Guadalajara, where his family moved when he was twelve and where streets and markets became his first lesson in public space. After architecture school in upstate New York and in London, he built a practice of over 300 that designs hotels, restaurants, stadiums, exhibitions and Broadway sets, with a Tony Award and two Emmys among the honours. Hospitality is the thread: the James Beard Foundation lists him in its Who's Who of Food & Beverage.

Buyers in India can source two of the products he drew for Italian makers from La Mercanti: the Inciso series of bathroom taps for Gessi and the Pax pedestal armchair for Tecno.