Great jewellery houses do more than adorn — they carry centuries of craft, memory and meaning. For us at Habitat designing the flagship for Hazoorilal by Sandeep Narang meant engaging with a name already etched into cultural memory, a heritage where every piece has the gravity of an heirloom and the intimacy of a family secret.

From the outset , the question was not just about how to display jewellery, but how to build a space that feels like Jewellry, as precious as the product it holds safe and in reverence . The answer lay in the principles both disciplines share: proportion, precision and narrative. Jewellery, like architecture, is a choreography of light and shadow, a balance of surface and structure, a frame for something infinitely personal.

This projects has many firsts for our firm and most endearing for us is the fact that it is Sarah’s first finished project in India . It has sparked that rare father daughter collab where work in luxury retail architecture merges immersive spatial choreography with meticulous craftsmanship.
And for me, it is also an inheritance in motion . My earliest memories are of my mother and grandmothers opening their jewellery boxes while me and my sister waited in anticipation for one peep into the bejewelled world it beheld — slow, deliberate acts, each piece emerging with a story. Those boxes were not storage; they were theatres of belonging. And today my daughter made one in real life scale .

Zafar and I visited the site often, watching Sarah’s vision take form. There was a quiet, shared knowing in those moments — a sense of something rare unfolding. That same feeling is embedded in the way the space itself unfolds: a sequence of discoveries where sightlines lead to curated focal points, much like a clasp or gemstone catching light at the perfect angle.

Materials are chosen for their haptic and visual resonance: metals that hold a warm glint, fabrics that soften sound, surfaces that invite touch without demanding it. I stood in awe as I witnessed Zafar gently instilled in Sarah and the teams the function and impact of light in interiors. Lighting here is modulated, not flooded — guiding visitors through an atmospheric gradient from public welcome to private encounter.
Herein the craftsmanship of the architecture mirrors the craftsmanship of the jewellery. Every joint, curve and intersection has the exactness of a master setter’s hand. It’s not mimicry; it’s kinship — the understanding that both a building and a necklace are built to be inhabited, one by the body, the other by the human experience.

This is where legacy and modernity meet. The heritage of Hazoorilal by Sandeep Narang lives not just in the pieces on display, but in the way the space itself becomes an artefact. And for us, this project has become a part of a lineage — from the jewellery boxes of my childhood, to the design narratives I help shape, to the voice our daughter now brings to the craft and our work.

Because in the end, architecture, like jewellery, is an act of permanence in a world of impermanence — a frame for beauty, built to last.