S K I D
Most spaces are designed to look good.
We design them to work.
Strategy. Space. Story. In that order.
SKID is a Mumbai-based hospitality design studio. We work with founders, operators, and F&B groups who are building spaces with something to say - bars, restaurants, cafés, nightlife venues where the atmosphere is the product, not an afterthought.
We don't start with a mood board. We start with your brief, your guest, your operation. The design comes after we understand what the space needs to do - commercially, spatially, experientially.
HOW WE WORK
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We listen before we look. One or two sessions with you - your brand, your vision, your guest, your location. We ask the questions most designers skip, because the answers are what everything else gets built on.
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We make sense of what we heard. Patterns, contradictions, opportunities, gaps. This is where we stop being listeners and start having a point of view. What you said, what you meant, and what the space actually needs - decoded into a clear direction before any research begins.
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Our independent research phase. Audience mapping, competitive landscape, location study, site assessment, spatial and cultural references. The month of thinking that most clients never see - and that most designers skip entirely. We don't. This is where the real differentiation gets built.
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We present back what we found. The positioning, the differentiator, the concept direction. What belongs in this space and what doesn't. This is a formal deliverable - not a mood board, not a vibe check.
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Interior design informed and anchored by everything above. Spatial planning, materiality, light, custom elements, the full interior language. Every decision traceable back to the brief. Nothing arbitrary. Nothing decorative for its own sake.
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Complete drawing packages, material specifications, vendor coordination. Handed over with the precision of something that can be built without us in the room - because that's the standard we hold ourselves to. Execution support available through to opening.