Cafe Fleur
 
 
 

Location:  Ambawatta One, Mehrauli, New Delhi, India
Area: 1200 square feet
Year: 2025

Design Team: Anjana Laxminarayan, Saher Sahni, Samarth Trehan

Customised Furniture: The Carpenter Company
Lighting: LSI - iGuzzini
Kitchen Consultant: HAKS India

Photographed by
Akshat Jain

The brief from Varun Bahl was to create a café within his flagship store that did not feel “themed,” but instead carried forward his design language of florals, lightness, and craft into a built environment. It needed to be intimate yet adaptable, luxurious yet impermanent, and above all, a space where fashion and architecture spoke the same language.
 

Responding to this, we translated couture into space. Shifting from fabric to form, from embroidery to envelope. The result is Café Fleur, a 30-seater sanctuary where modular architecture is softened by craft and detail. At its heart stands a sculptural coffee cart, the daily ritual around which the space gathers, framed by customised furniture from The Carpenter Company, embossed with Bahl’s signature floral insignia.

 

The florals, however, are not surface motifs; they are atmospheres. They appear as light-filled canopies, soft curved fabrics, tapestries, and shadows that move across walls and wallpapers creating an environment where softness meets maximalism. This was not ornamentation but translation, fulfilling the intent of Varun’s brief: to inhabit architecture with fashion, not simply influence it.

Café Fleur thus embodies a space that feels as though it bloomed, rather than was built.
 

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