About
Founded by Pravir Sethi in 2014, Studio Hinge is an international award-winning architecture, interior & furniture design practice, offering design consultancy, along with turnkey execution on interior projects.
The studio’s work spans cultural, institutional, leisure, residential, commercial and retail projects and has been published and awarded globally in over a dozen countries.
Pravir graduated in 2002 from the Academy of Architecture (Rachana Sansad) in Mumbai and 2004 from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London. He has worked with some of the top names in Indian and British architecture including Samira Rathod Design Associates, Sanjay Puri Architects, Archer Architects, Marks Barfield Architects and David Chipperfield Architects.
In addition to his experience leading large building and township projects for blue-chip Mumbai developers, Pravir’s proclivity for furniture, lighting and surface design informs the studio’s focus on innovative and bespoke detailing, its curious approach and flexible design solutions.
From 2017, when Pravir was included in Architect & Interiors India magazine’s iGen 50 list of young architects to look out for in India, there has been no looking back.
In 2018, Pravir was selected as the Asian finalist for the World Young Designer of the Year and invited to give a keynote lecture in Guangzhou, China.
Since 2020, studio HINGE has featured in the AD100, Architectural Digest magazine’s definitive list of the most influential designers in the country. In 2024 the firm was also included in Architect & Interiors India magazine’s HOT 100 list.
More recently, the studio’s work has won recognition at some of the most highly coveted international design awards including:
- Dezeen Awards, London
- Architizer A+ Awards, NYC
- Createurs Design Awards, Paris
Pravir enjoys teaching and has been visiting faculty at the KRVIA (Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture), BSSA (NMIMS’s Balwant Sheth School of Architecture) and at the Indian School of Design & Innovation (The Parsons New School of Design, NYC).
Outlook
The outlook of the studio is firmly contemporary, with nods to historical and social context. The work is detail-and craft-orientated, yet often interpreted by cutting edge fabrication techniques.
Good design, to us, is like a clever bit of storytelling. It is contextual, has a narrative, can be witty, moving, or both. It evolves, evokes, revealing new turns at every reading.
We believe design should be ubiquitous, should trickle down into the nooks and crannies of daily life, and not just be the preserve of a luxury lifestyle.
In a world that associates luxury with cost, we prefer to think of luxury in terms of time, and putting people at the centre of what we do. Through thoughtful design, personalisation, attention to detail and we find ways to make people’s lives easier, and more filled with delight.
We recognize that one size does not fit all and deliver tailored solutions to reflect this. And sometimes, when one size doesn’t even fit one, we build in flexibility. We create things that bend/ fold/ twist/ slide to become other things, hybrid things.
Detail is sacred to us. We are driven by tactility, surface, texture, joinery, the coming-together-ness of things and the whole-more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts-ness of it all.