The Monsoon Club was the conversion of a gallery into a live music performance venue.
The installation is a contemporary reworking of the Shamiana, a tent structure dating from the Mughal Era used for special functions like marriages and feasts.
The pixellated grid of suspended thread forms a pattern borrowed from traditional ‘dhurries’ and designed to resemble an unravelling loom.
- Location
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washigton D.C.
- Use
- Multi-purpose hall installation
- Client
- Maximum India Festival
- Status
- Completed 2011
- Area
- 350sqm
- Design Team
- Christopher Lee, Kapil Gupta, Bolam Lee, Martin Jameson, Abdulla Yoosufali, Amit Arya, Donny Prijatna, Suril Patel and Santosh Thorat
- Project Team
- Aditya Pawar, Anusha Bajpai, Pranav Chahande, Renu Gupta, Satish Saklani, Sunil Thukrul and Suruchi Agarwal
- Installation Team
- Akshay Zanjale, Aniket Shivagan, Anish Sawant, Ashish Nikam, Gourav Gupta, Gouresh Hatale, Harshad Darekar, Haresh Mandavkar, Jennitta Joseph, Megha Bhatia, Mangesh Sanzgiri, Manoj Pawar, Mayur Tawade, Neeta Gurav, Ninad Masaye, Pritam Acharekar, Ramdas Gorule, Shiva Iyer, Sonam Gala, Swapnil Uttekar, Vinayak Joiel, Zainab Chauhan
- Lighting Consultant
- AWA Lighting Designers
- Supplier
- N.S.Arora & Co
- Carpenters
- Deven Mistry, Digamber Sutar, N P Mistry, Satish Sutar, Shivaji Sutar
- Painters
- Anil Suryavanshi, Gorakh Jadhav, Jitendra Kadam, Prakash Suryavanshi, Sunil Jadhav
- On-site Fabrication
- Stockwell & J.Holdings
- Photography
- Daniel Schwartz
