Materiality
Stone, timber, lime, brass - chosen for honesty, not effect.
DesignFlow - Studio of Architecture & Objects
Spaces designed
to be remembered.
Architecture, interiors, and furniture - crafted with material honesty, quiet detail, and a deep respect for the lives they hold.
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Architectural Digest
Dezeen
Wallpaper*
Domus
ELLE Decor
Design Anthology
Architect & Interiors
Inside Outside
Architectural Digest
Dezeen
Wallpaper*
Domus
ELLE Decor
Design Anthology
Architect & Interiors
Inside Outside
001 / Philosophy
Design rooted
in purpose.
We build slowly. Every project at DesignFlow begins not with form, but with an enquiry - into site, into material, into the quiet rituals of those who will inhabit the space.
Craftsmanship
Drawings detailed for the maker's hand.
Human Experience
Spaces measured in light, shadow, and breath.
Context
A response to land, climate, and culture.
Timelessness
Decisions that age into the building.
Restraint
What is removed matters as much as what is kept.
002 / Selected Works
Recent
projects.
Mazaya Business Avenue - BB1, Dubai / 2025
44th Floor Mazaya Business Avenue BB1
Commercial office interiors, fit-out, furniture, reception, board room, CEO cabin, closed and open workstations, meeting rooms, MD cabins, phone booth, storeroom, and dry pantry.
I-Rise Tower, Al Barsha, Dubai
20C-04 I-Rise Tower
Completed commercial office interior with site-image documentation.
SABA-1, Cluster E, JLT, Dubai / 2026
Office 2203 SABA Tower 1
Completed commercial office interior with additional variation scope for approval resubmission, reception works, acoustic glass, workstation upgrades, storage, blinds, civil works, sliding doors, and lighting.
003 / The Drawing Room
Drawn by hand,
still.
Plans, sections, and elevations remain - for us - the first architecture. Every project at DesignFlow begins on paper, with a graphite line and a measured pause.
PlansSectionsElevationsDetails
004 / Objects
Furniture as
small architecture.
Each object in the DesignFlow collection is conceived as a building in miniature - drawn, modelled, prototyped, and made in small editions with a single workshop of carpenters we have worked with for a decade.
12Pieces in collection
04Materials, principally
01Workshop, in Jodhpur
005 / Process
Six movements,
one long pause.
Our method is slow by design. A house may take three years; a hotel, five. We protect that pace fiercely - it is where the building learns to belong.
- IDiscoverySite, climate, and the rhythms of the lives we are designing for.
- IIResearchMaterial studies, vernacular reference, and a written brief authored together.
- IIIConceptHand drawings, scale models, and a single guiding idea per project.
- IVDevelopmentResolved plans, sections, and details - drawn and re-drawn.
- VDocumentationWorking drawings prepared with the same care as the concept itself.
- VIRealisationOn-site studio presence through the slow act of building.
006 / Studio
Meet
DesignFlow.
DesignFlow is a small studio of eleven - architects, interior designers, a maker, and a draughtsman - working from a converted bungalow in Mehrauli, New Delhi.
Founder
Kusum Talwar
Trained at CEPT, Kusum founded the studio in 2014 after a decade with Studio Mumbai and a long apprenticeship in vernacular craft.
Principal Architect
Manan Talwar
Leads the architecture practice - drawings, details, and the studio's furniture workshop in Jodhpur.
007 / Commissions