The Madras Terrace House is a place for artistic expression & performance. It plays host to an art gallery, a café, a performance space and also a charming store.
The store houses different, interesting treasures from young artists and designers from across India and its own in-house brand of ‘K Clothing’. It is a meeting ground for NGO’s, a tea kadai and the hub of a new and hip publishing house - Blaft Publications.
The striking contrast of a heritage home with blue green doors, red flooring and high-tiled ceilings amidst the hustle bustle of everyday city life transports you to another world.
The Madras Terrace House is a place for artistic expression & performance. It plays host to an art gallery, a café, a performance space and also a charming store.
The store houses different, interesting treasures from young artists and designers from across India and its own in-house brand of ‘K Clothing’. It is a meeting ground for NGO’s, a tea kadai and the hub of a new and hip publishing house - Blaft Publications.
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The striking contrast of a heritage home with blue green doors, red flooring and high-tiled ceilings amidst the hustle bustle of everyday city life transports you to another world.
The entrance to the Madras Terrace House...
...And the view within.
You walk in and, suddenly, it’s like another world has been very gently pasted over the old one – and it seems to fit just fine.
Kaveri Lalchand, actor with a social conscience, garment designer, publisher, and the moving force behind The Madras Terrace House, calls her brainchild “a place for cultural activities.”
The rooms and walls are filled with colour, augmented by a red Athangudi floor with its cheerful green and yellow border.
The contents of each room reflect the diversity of ideas and activities that are housed here. Sweeps of pink drapes run over and under old-fashioned rafters and, for a second, an image of a baby in a thooli flashes across your mind, before you notice the books published by Blaft Publications in a corner. Kaveri, along with two friends, is a founder-¬director.
A brilliant red chandelier in the stairwell in the next room suddenly creates another mood. Artefacts are on scattered display, while the main passage acts as an art gallery. The inner large room, “which can take up to 60 people comfortably”, is used for discussions, theatre, movie screenings, book readings and releases, and the like.
The garage has become a kitchen, while the café – designed around a tea-kadai concept, serving traditional food – is housed in the little garden area to the side and rear of the building.
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