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techniques and materials in a way that will inspire and amaze their clients.
Every client want something different, something they haven’t seen at their friends’
houses. We pride ourselves on being able to rise to challenges and help designers
deliver something truly extraordinary.’
To date, the company’s standout projects have included two super yachts that were
awarded Boat of the Year, retail stores for the world’s leading fashion brands, and
super-premium residential offerings, such as One Hyde Park and 432 Park Avenue.
When it comes to bespoke solutions, the worlds of fashion and luxury goods often
provide inspiration. One former client wanted her powder room to look like a Louis
Vuitton trunk ; another requested leather upholstery to match her Hermès handbag.
Among the most extraordinary pieces Fameed Khalique has created are 14 arch panels
inlaid with semi- precious stones such as jade, pink quartz and lapis lazuli,. The panels
feature a quarter of a million hand-cut pieces – making this the largest mosaic project
carried out in modern-day India.Other high-profile commercial projects over the past
year have included supplying all the leathers for The Ned, Soho House’s £200 million
hotel and restaurant destination in the heart of The City, wall coverings for newly
refurbished de Grisogono stores worldwide and the floor at Mexican restaurant Ella
Canta at the InterContinental London Park Lane.
One of Fameed’s personal passions is taking familiar and even historical surfaces
and giving them a contemporary twist, like the herringbone parquet floor rendered
in golden aluminium the company supplied for the Clerkenwell London concept
store. This flooring, Alumalux, was honoured with a ‘Best of BDNY’ award in 2016,
as was another groundbreaking technique developed by Fameed Khalique: hand-
embroidered raffia used as a wall-covering. The inspiration for this came about
when Fameed saw the front panel of a woman’s raffia handbag in India and came up
with the idea of using the same technique to recreate an effect reminiscent of straw
marquetry, enabling the team to deliver the same look but at a much lower price
point.
‘We’re always looking for new techniques to deliver materials in ways that offer
value for money or more durable – finding cost-effective solutions to challenges. Yes,
we work with the world’s leading design studios at a premium end of the market,
but that’s not all we do. If you compare our business to a fashion house, we have
our couture market but we also do ready-to-wear.’ Khalique, the company’s new
lifestyle retail collection, which is sold in Harrods and at the showroom, uses the
amazing techniques and materials the team has discovered to create show-stopping
collections of cushions, throws and scarves. ‘It seemed a logical step to create our own
collection, to make something out of the materials we found and loved. Our passion
is materiality, things that have an extraordinary visual and tactile impact – and the
Khalique range really reflects that. We want to develop this into a full lifestyle brand’
Launching the retail collection is also a way to further imprint the company on the
public consciousness. People buying a new home or a yacht are already specifying its
materials from their designer or architect, and Fameed Khalique is now on course to
become the world’s first luxury surfaces lifestyle brand.
1st Floor , The Furniture & Arts Building, 533 Kings Road, London SW10 0TZ
www.fameedkhalique.com