The Studio

We are an atelier, not an agency.

AUREA was founded on a simple refusal: that interiors should be produced. Ours are composed — slowly, materially, and always around the specific life that will be lived inside them. Four partners, twenty-two craftspeople, and a material library that takes up half the studio.

Why AUREA

The numbers behind the feeling.

2010

15+ Years

of practice

Founded in a two-desk studio in Bandra with one client and one borrowed drafting table.

2016

500+

projects delivered

From single rooms to complete estates across twelve cities and four countries.

2021

98%

client satisfaction

Measured across post-handover surveys; most new work arrives by referral.

2024

27

design awards

Including national honours for residential, hospitality and lighting design.

The People

Four minds, one signature.

Anaya Kapoor

Anaya Kapoor

Founder & Principal Designer

Trained at Politecnico di Milano; fifteen years turning light into the primary building material.

Dev Sharma

Dev Sharma

Design Director, Residential

Believes a house should be planned like a film — establishing shot, tension, release.

Lea Fernandes

Lea Fernandes

Head of Materials & FF&E

Keeper of the material library; can identify seventy stones blindfolded by temperature alone.

Arjun Iyer

Arjun Iyer

Technical Director

Turns poetry into working drawings. Nothing leaves the studio he can't build twice as well.