Difference Is In The Detail: Creating Exceptional Interiors With Charu Gandhi Of Elicyon

Now, talking about these amazing landmark places that you do, you've done Chelsea Barracks, you've done all sorts of things, but I remember specifically, and I think it may have been the first time that we really met properly, it was at One Hyde Park, the enormous Candy & Candy building, which there was such a noise about it when it first sort of appeared, because it was right at the top of Sloane Street, overlooking Hyde Park.

And was it the penthouse or one of the penthouses? And you did the most beautiful, beautiful interior, and it was just breathtaking.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

That's very kind.

Once a project is finished, do you kind of move on from it? Because each one is so different.

So we always feel there's always a little bit of sort of, um, well, it's excitement about, you know, moving towards handover, and most of us in the team, it's one of our favorite, even though most intense phases is the install.

But there's always a little bit of grieving when it finishes because you sort of hand over your baby.

They all stay with you, but when I get asked what my favorite project is, and I guess it's very telling of me and my general approach, I always say it's my next one.

Because you're always looking forward, looking ahead.

But yes, each project stays with you.

You know, you learn from it.

The things you did there that were special, that resonate with you, things that you, some form, repeat as you learn.

It's a very interesting process.

You know, for those few months, the projects that are with you, they're, they're like your children.

You know, I've been, um, fretting about a pair of bar stools in a project because I'm-

[laughs]

... you know, worried.

Is the footrest at the right height, and is the cushion sort of, uh, plump enough on it? And, you know, there's always something I'm, I'm worrying about.

There's a soap dish on another project that I don't like, and do we need a soap dish?

[laughs] Love that.

Should we have, should we have a, you know, hand wash pumps or should it be soap dishes? Are soap dishes cool? Will they, will it look all, you know, yucky in time? I, I really care, and I, you know, I should care, right?

Yeah.

I'm, um, clients are entrusting us with, uh, a really meaningful, uh, part of their lives, whether it's a private home or a development indeed, right? For that development team and that developer, that project is everything.

So I like worrying about those details.