Considered spaces for intentional living.
Creating spaces that encourage people to slow down, connect, move with ease and find meaning in everyday rituals.
Our philosophyAn architectural and spatial design practice working across Mumbai and the U.A.E. — three ways into the studio's world.
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About Us
The studio, the story, and the philosophy behind almost six decades of practice.
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Spaces
How a project moves from a first conversation to a finished room.
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The Edit
A running, editorial record of the work as it's completed.
EnterDCA x Rashi Chheda designs for clients who already believe in intentional living and quiet luxury — curating rooms around art, objects, light and the histories a family wants to keep close.
Almost six decades of considered design.
DCA x Rashi Chheda is an architectural and spatial design discipline, founded in 1967 as Darshan Chheda Atelier by Hirji Chheda — a name that became synonymous with unparalleled craftsmanship in Indian interior design and architecture. His belief that design could elevate everyday life still shapes the studio today, carried by a second generation with the same instinct for restraint across India and the U.A.E. Clients are typically high-net-worth individuals who already believe in intentional living and luxury, and who want a home that reflects that conviction rather than announces it.
Architectural Well-being & Intentional Living
Our philosophy begins with a simple belief: the spaces we inhabit shape the lives we lead.
We design with architectural well-being at the centre—considering not only the physical comfort of a space, but its emotional and psychological impact. Natural light, air, acoustics, thermal comfort, ergonomics, movement and connection to nature are considered alongside the quieter needs of life: privacy and togetherness, solitude and gathering, stimulation and stillness.
This becomes our approach to intentional living—creating spaces that encourage people to slow down, connect, move with ease and find meaning in everyday rituals.
For us, design is not about filling a space beautifully. It is about editing, balancing and composing an environment around the way one wants to live.
Every material, transition, view and object has a role.
Every space should evoke a feeling.
We design not just for how a space looks, but for how life feels within it.
Rashi Chheda
DCA × Rashi Chheda — eight years of practice
Rashi Chheda, Principal Designer, brings a background in light design and a deep appreciation for art, culture, history and antique collectibles to every project. She completed her interior design education at Rachana Sansad, Mumbai, graduating top of her class with accolades for work completed during the course.
She approaches each project as experiential design — curating a lifestyle around the objects, art and histories that give a space its identity.
Featured in the press, and recognised for the work.
As Featured In
- AD — Architectural Digest India
- GoodHomesFeb & Jul 2022
- Architect and Interiors IndiaDec 2022
- India Design WorldJan & Apr 2022
- Foaid IndiaMay 2022
- The Architect's DiaryMay & Aug 2022
- HouzesyMay 2022
Awards
- Most Trusted & Creative Interior Design Firm of the Year National Architecture & Interior Design Awards — Global Edition2022
- Top 50 Under 50, Inspiring Women Design Awards India2022
- Elite Top 25 Most Emerging & Trendsetter Women Interior Designers of India Design Awards India2022
- Featured Practice Fox Story India2023
Architecture & interiors, one considered stage at a time.
Every project — from a single room to a full residence — moves through the same five stages, whether it takes months or years to complete.
Understanding how you actually live
Before a single line is drawn, we spend time with how a family moves through a day — the rituals, the objects they won't part with, the light they're drawn to.
Translating the brief into space
The brief becomes a spatial language — circulation, proportion, and the relationship between rooms — resolved before any material is chosen.
Choosing what a room is made of
Drawing on a background in light design, every material and fixture is selected for how it behaves at different hours — this is where atmosphere is set.
Working alongside artisans
Custom furniture, joinery and finishes are developed hand-in-hand with the craftspeople who make them — precision at every join.
Handed over as a finished lifestyle
The last stage isn't a handover of keys — it's styling a home so it already feels lived in, curated, and complete.
See it realised, project by project.
Completed spaces are documented as they're finished — an ongoing, editorial record rather than a static portfolio.
Enter The EditField Notes
A running, editorial record of the studio's homes and workplaces — part portfolio, part journal. Open any project to scroll through it room by room.
New work is added here as projects complete.