Ishanya and Rimari: Art solutions for interior and exterior needs

Ishanya, India's first and largest international design centre and speciality mall for interior and exterior solutions, is fast spreading its wing to become a one-stop destination for all-around solutions for interior as well as exterior needs. Apart from housing furniture, glazing, flooring, lighting, acoustics, furniture, furnishings and hi-tech consumer electronics/white goods, Ishanya has added art services to its portfolio. Rimari India, specialising in providing corporate art services to add value and aesthetics to the ambience of corporate offices, hotels and resorts, hospitals, educational institutions and homes, has signed on to lease space at the mall.

The brainchild of Ritu Nanda, Rimari is known to provide customised and comprehensive art solutions based on specific needs of a client/organisation/project. Having worked with renowned hotels like Shangri-La, ITC, Intercontinental and Hyatt, and corporate offices like Adobe, Nestle, L&T and McKinsey, this is for the first time that Rimari has decided to venture into retailing in India. Rimari has created a niche for itself by undertaking works of art, proposing creative and alternative styles to suit the corporate environment and budget.

Sharing his comments on the association, IS Narula, president and CEO, Ishanya, says, “Ishanya is a destination and an ideal venue to facilitate design and project business, with an ambience perfectly tailored to meet the needs of the art and design community. Ishanya is a pan-India centre for design and architecture, which ensures big business and provides an environment to support art. Ishanya is also the place to showcase talent, whether established or emerging. Through our association with Rimari, we envision promoting art for architecture.”

Adds Ritu Nanda, chairperson, Rimari India, “Ishanya is a destination that fulfils interior and exterior needs, and Rimari is a one-stop shop that provides solutions/consultancy with respect to art. Ishanya provides us with the perfect ambience and an ideal platform to provide services to projects. With Ishanya's emerging status as a global venue for large design, project and business decisions, it gives us access to one of India's fastest-growing markets and provides us precisely the kind of business partners we seek to service various projects – from builders/developers and consultants, to architects and interior designers.”

Ishanya and Rimari will also explore ways of jointly investing towards the cause of promoting art. Besides providing services to the corporate world, Rimari also promotes upcoming and even unknown artists. Rimari's collection comprises works of upcoming artists from all over the country.