Walk the red carpet
The Hindu : Looking for something new to do up your home? Youfind something in one store, but have to go hunting for something else to another. But, what if you get everything under one roof, added with the perfect shopping ambience?
A place where you can pick up either a tiny curtain ring or all that you need to do up your home. Then make Drapes Avenue Gallery on the Intermediate Ring Road, Domlur, your destination. This one is the second branch of a store by the same name started by Vinod and Manju Goenka in 1991 on Lady Curzon Road. Their son Rajat along with wife Malvika manage the Domlur outlet.
The Domlur outlet is a three-floor, 9,000 square feet store. It’s not just the stuff that is displayed that bowls you over but also the meticulous and stylish display that is visually appealing. Everything is colour coordinated. The best part is that each section offers design books to help you look at trends.
The ground floor offers plenty of curtains, upholstery, drapery rods, floor cushions — these come in cottons, silks linens, velvets and so on. Along with these there are also some wooden blinds, priced at Rs. 245 per meter.
There are also plenty of artefacts, displayed like precious jewellery pieces in glass boxes elegantly draped with plenty of silk and velvet. That’s when you realise the trouble that the people behind the store have taken to design the space.
They don’t manufacture anything here but source them from companies like Desitex (Mumbai), G.M. Syntex (Mumbai), Seasons (Delhi) and so on.
For those who have a passion for foreign goods the store does not disappoint. There is plenty brought in from Europe so that you can do up your home with that classic French or English touch.
“Even this section comes from companies like Wind, Rasch and so on,” adds Rajat.
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