Verve – July 2019

110 JUNE - JULY 2019

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: VINTAGE INDIAN JEWELLERY FROM KAVI’S

MOTHER; BOOKS AND ARTEFACTS ON THE MANTELPIECE OF KAVI AND

DAVID’S HOUSE (THE PLASTER CAST IS OF THEIR DAUGHTER’S HAND, THE

LEOPARD WAS BOUGHT IN KERALA); PERFUMES AND AROMATIC MATERIALS IN

THEIR LIVING ROOM

Your inspirations: movies, design, books?

K: Le Corbusier — all about textures, materials. And the smart

use of colour. Charlotte Perriand. Charles and Ray Eames.

Kazimir Malevich. For books, just about anything Russian.

Mikhail Bulgakov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol. David and I

are both obsessed, and I even studied the language in college. I

can’t believe I’ve still never been to Russia!

How would you define your everyday personal style?

D: Part urban dad, part Caribbean vacation, part New England,

part 1930s Irish gangster.

K: Sophisticated Goth who also loves the beach. Anything black

and high-waisted. Age-appropriate for the most part, with hints

of midlife crisis when I regress into teenage clothes (kilts and

faux leather miniskirts are making a comeback in the US). Gold

jewellery. Stevie Nicks (ish). On the weekends, I live in T-shirts

and black jeans.

Whom do you admire?

K & D: People who can build things and heal and who love freely.

Those who truly listen, people who are genuinely passionate

about what they do.

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