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VIRTUOSO – A RANGE OF ARTISTIC DESIGNS!

Exploring different colour combinations and coming up with unique designs is what we love to do! This is where we seek to collaborate with like-minded individuals and leverage their talent to create collections that are a collective representation of creative freedom and great design sense – or what we call the BFT+ range. This time we turned to a platform that empowers artists by promoting limited edition and original works of art - Art&Found. It is a curated platform for upcoming Indian artists that caters to designers and art lovers alike. Comprising of a community of designers, illustrators, typographers, photographers, painters and doodlers who have come together to sustain and celebrate artistic excellence, Art&Found is a powerhouse of talent. We couldn’t think of a better alliance! When talented artists and designers come together to create visual compositions using a shared knowledge base, to give you a different perspective of art, the result is nothing short of exe

The Iconic ‘Blue’ Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue!

The mid-19th-century cultural monument that’s reopened to the public after a year of restoration - Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue! It is the oldest Sephardic Synagogue in Mumbai, constructed in 1884. The synagogue was designed by Bombay architects Gosling and Morris and was paid for by the Sassoon family, who were prominent philanthropists in Bombay. The synagogue’s decorative interiors featured Victorian stained-glass windows and rich Burmese teakwood furnishings and staircase. In 2010 the WMF funded the re-creation of the architectural structure of the Synagogue and the restoration was completed in January 2019. The Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue – also commonly known as Kala Ghoda’s Blue Synagogue – received a new lease of life after 20 months of restoration.  Abha Narain Lambah, the architect for the restoration project said, “The Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue was an extremely challenging and fulfilling restoration project. The entire structure, right from the externa