SVSMS is a family owned traditional Indian sweet store. It was first established in 1935. and located in the heart of the old market district of Balepet in Bangalore, India. The store was earlier operating from a 100sqft space in a building adjacent to our site since the 70's. The renovated space expanded to almost 4000 sqft in a building built in the 50’s. The ground floor is for the sale of sweets, first floor as a cafeteria, the second and third floor is used for packaging and storage. Because of the high ceiling heights two mezzanine floors were inserted between the ground and second floor by puncturing the first floor slab. These have been designed to be used as offices.
The sweet store has been in business for over 7 decades and is a landmark of sorts for sale of popular sweet called the 'Mysore Pak'. It has been attributed to the popularity of the sweet. Historically the sweet was first made in the kitchens of the Mysore Palace. Hence it was our intent to connect the history of the sweet to our ideas of design. The laser cut patterns on the MDF has been loosely based on the artwork of the Mysore Palace. The chandeliers are used to remind us of a time period when the store started and give us a sense of grandeur of where the sweet originated.
The cafeteria on the first floor is mostly kept white. The false ceiling, lighting and the front panels are all in white while wall paper has been used behind the counter and the gypsum false ceilings. The MDF panels in the false ceiling have been laser cut in the same motif as on the ground floor. The Chandeliers on the false ceiling and laser cut panels thematically connect the two floors.
The uniqueness of the project is in the fact of discovering the awareness and the penetration of design as well as the changing pattern in the field of retail and merchandise in the India we live in today where a very traditional utilitarian sweet shop has been designed to look up market.
