Mangaluru: The Indian Design School hosts fourth ‘Design Celebration’ event
Mangaluru: The Indian Design School hosted its fourth ‘Design Celebration’ on Saturday,18th January 2020 – a monthly event where it invites award-winning, celebrated architects and interior designers across the country for conducting talks on design, projects and professional practice.
It serves as a platform where exchange of ideas and knowledge takes place to inspire young and creative minds to achieve excellence. The talk is generally followed by the presentation of the event sponsors.
On this event, IDS invited Ar. Namit Tandon, Uttar Pradesh as the guest speaker, with Zed’s Home Fab, Mangaluru as the workshop partner. Ar. Namit Tandon is a well known practicing architect and interior designer in the city of Lucknow, UP. He is the founder and Chief Architect of Axis Archi, Lucknow, an associate of the IIA and a member of COA. A graduate of MAHE, Manipal, he has been practicing from past 15 years with a team of three architects since 2005 and now with around 30 associates– giving him a strong insight into various aspects of project conceptualisation, design development and detailing. In addition, he has been in the field of architectural education by delivering lectures, being a design critic and participating in forums. With his independent practice, he is also a founder of Axis Arch- a learning institute providing students with certificate course in architecture and interior designing. He has a vast experience in designing interiors for hotels, restaurants, schools, jewelry showrooms, commercial and residential buildings, etc.
The theme of the event was “Interiors influenced by Indian Standards”, where Ar. Namit presented some of his best projects and the challenges behind each project to make it as per client requirements, cost-effective, highly functional by local cultural influence and low environmental impact. The talk provided the students with an in-depth understanding on materials, budget and site constraints, cultural influence and construction management. A question-answer session was conducted at the end of the talk which gave the students a further clarity on the finer details of design.
The Talk was followed by a presentation of Zed’s Home Fab, Manguluru by Mr. Zaheer and Mr. Zubair. They spoke about fabric Furnishings and its impact on interior design and also gave information on the various types of soft furnishing products offered by their company to architects and interior designers. Zed’s displayed physical samples of different types of curtain pleat stitching, and explained the blinds/curtain rods mechanisms and the details by means of practical and hands-on approach – the core value of IDS. Later on, the students visited the Zed’s showroom where they were displayed and detailed with different types of fabrics for upholstery, curtains, linen, carpets, blinds, mattresses and provided brochures of their new range of products.
The event concluded with Ar. Namit, Mr. Zaheer and Mr. Zubair being awarded the certificate of appreciation by the Chairman – Ar. Mohammed Nissar and the Principal – Ar. Ramnath Nayak of Indian Design School.
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Surat LS candidate Nilesh Kumbhani whose nomination form was rejected suspended from Congress
Ahmedabad, Apr 25: The Gujarat Congress on Friday suspended from the party for six years its Surat Lok Sabha candidate Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form was rejected over discrepancies leading to the BJP's Mukesh Dalal getting elected unopposed.
A statement from the Congress said the party's disciplinary committee decided to suspend Kumbhani after thorough discussion, adding it had come to the conclusion that the nomination form was rejected due to gross negligence on his part or "in connivance with the BJP".
"To be fair to you we have given time to you to explain your case but instead of coming before the party disciplinary committee you have gone incommunicado. After your form was rejected by the authorities, BJP went ahead and got form of other eight candidates withdrawn. This has deprived people of Surat their voting rights," the Congress disciplinary committee headed by Balu Patel said.
"People of Surat and party workers have become very angry due to your action and are expressing their anger in different ways. The Congress party has decided to suspend you for six years from the party," the press note said.
Kumbhani's nomination form was rejected on April 21 after his three proposers submitted affidavits to the district returning officer claiming the signatures on the document was not theirs.
The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the Congress' substitute candidate from Surat, was also invalidated on the same grounds.
In his order, Returning Officer Sourabh Pardhi said the three nomination forms submitted by Kumbhani and Padsala were rejected after prima facie discrepancy was found in the signatures of the proposers and they did not appear to be genuine.
Kumbhani, a former corporator from Surat, had unsuccessfully fought the 2022 Assembly polls from Kamrej there.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed from Surat Lok Sabha constituency on April 22 after all other nominees, including one from BSP, withdrew from the fray one by one on the last day of withdrawing papers.
