Gingham Dreams by MuseLAB
Gingham Dreams crowns a 25th-floor apartment in Mumbai, India, with a vivid sense of order and play. Conceived by MuseLAB for a three-generational family, the home replaces conventional luxury with gingham-patterned marble, saturated color, and a social core that draws people toward long views of the Arabian Sea. Every room carries the grid in a different register, turning daily rituals into small encounters with pattern and craft.
Eastern light slants across a chequered marble floor, catching coral, pale blue, beige, and lake placid green in quick reflections. Beyond the glass, Versova stretches toward the Arabian Sea, folding the city’s horizon into daily life.
This is a 3,000-square-foot apartment in Mumbai, arranged for three generations and tuned by MuseLAB around one recurring idea: the gingham grid as both rhythm and restraint. Rather than a theme, the pattern becomes a quiet structure for color, material, and furniture, threading from entry to terrace and binding the home’s social rooms with its more private corners.
Gingham Underfoot And Overhead
The story begins at the nucleus, a rectilinear living and dining hall that can comfortably hold a dozen guests. Underfoot, inlaid marble squares read like a woven carpet, each tone calibrated so the grid stays legible yet never shouts. Soft, amoeba-like tables and seating drift across this ordered field, their rounded edges loosening the geometry and easing circulation. Look up and the ceiling quietly echoes the floor, so the room feels held between two planes of pattern.
Stone wainscoting wraps the perimeter, its solid band capped with sculptural pieces by Sycaro that bring a handmade scale to the larger volumes. Tabletops nod to familiar board games, adding a hint of play to gatherings without turning the room into a set piece. A monolithic marble bench and coral-legged dining table ground the center, giving guests clear places to land during long evenings of conversation.
Color At The Threshold
Arrival is marked not by spectacle but by a sharp hit of color. A green-apple wall catches the eye beside a pair of armchairs and a luminous lightbox, signaling that this interior runs on hue as much as grid. From there, the palette expands: coral, soft blue, beige, and gentle green migrate from floor inlays into furniture legs, surfaces, and small objects. Each tone repeats just enough to feel familiar.
A ruddy jacket artwork by Hands and Minds leans into memory, hanging as a quiet tribute to friendship in the shared zone. That piece, along with sculptural accents scattered through the main rooms, keeps the composition from tipping into pure geometry, reminding visitors that this is a lived-in apartment rather than a gallery.
Grids In Work And Play
In the kitchen, the grid tightens and turns practical. Lake Placid quartzite and Corian wrap surfaces, with a veined island that flows into a chequered fascia for storage and prep. Inlaid patterns run up the backsplash and across window lines, so everyday tasks like cooking and clearing happen against a steady visual tempo. Eastern light sharpens these joints in the morning, making the marble’s variation more evident.
The activity room doubles as study and guest bedroom, reading as a compact club by day. Powder-blue ceilings and wood-clad walls give warmth, while Shoji-inspired latticed wood and glass carry the grid into partitions and cabinet fronts. A Sycaro owl stands guard on the desk, its sculpted presence anchoring the room during late-night work or quiet reading.
Terrace And Sleeping Realms
Underfoot, terrazzo leads from interior thresholds to the outdoor terrace, softening the step between living room and open air. Granite furniture and a cabana-style daybed set the tone for evenings outside, where city views replace television and the grid gives way to looser forms. The material shift is subtle but firm, signaling that this is a slower, more social edge of the apartment.
Inside the bedrooms, color deepens as privacy increases. The primary suite leans into umber warmth, pairing a scalloped headboard with a coral vanity that picks up on the public rooms without repeating them outright. The children’s room runs brighter in apple green, while the parents’ suite settles into a sepia palette that feels measured and calm.
By night, the chequered floors mute to soft shadow while the ceiling patterns carry what light remains. The grid holds everything in place, yet each room bends it toward its own rhythm, letting Gingham Dreams balance structure with lived-in ease.
Photography by Nayan Soni
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