A New Salon Pops Up At Volte Gallery

Salon culture, as we noted last year, has trickled into Mumbai’s social calendar, with everyone from husbands-and-wives to designers setting up their own pop-up efforts in living rooms across the city. Add to a list already commendably long, Salon Mumbai, a collaborative effort between design studio Obataimu, Volte art gallery and the Godrej Culture Lab, which will invite filmmakers, musicians, chefs and other talking heads to interact with a select group of people once a month, in the backroom of the gallery, now called Obataimu peepbox and retrofitted with all manner of inventive light fittings (there are lamps made from, among other things, payphones, and tricycles). Here, the black-walled nook, separated from the gallery by a red velvet curtain, will play host to talent from Mumbai as well as people from outside who have a “particular interest in contributing to the city”, says Obataimu founder Noorie Sadarangani. You can email saysalonmumbai@gmail.com for invitation details; they’re looking for an eclectic group of around 30 to 40 people pulled from various fields. In the meantime, for the next one week, Obataimu will be showing a capsule collection of new light and furniture pieces—a sofa made from a leather-coated bathtub is one eye-catching piece—along with works by some of Volte’s star artists like Ranbir Kaleka, Sheba Chhachhi and David LaChapelle.

Volte Gallery

Location2/19 Kamal Mansion
First Floor
Above Hotel White Pearl
Near Radio Club lane
Colaba

Phone2204 1220

Relevant DatesUntil Thursday, July 19

HoursMonday to Saturday, 11.30am to 7.30pm; Sunday closed

Ticketing & Price InfoFree

Websitewww.volte.in