Von Interior Gallery

If you’re driving down the Kaloor-Kadavanthara Road, you’ve probably passed us near Katrikkadavu Junction. We’re right there below the bridge. It’s a busy part of town, so there is always a lot of traffic noise and people rushing around outside. Inside the gallery, it’s a bit different. We’ve got samples of different interior things tucked into every corner. It can get a bit crowded when a new shipment arrives and we have to move the furniture around to make space. Pulickal Avenue is a bit narrow, so parking is always a topic of conversation with anyone visiting. We spend a lot of time looking at textures and talking about colors. It’s not like those big air-conditioned malls where everything is perfectly staged. Here, things are a bit more lived-in. We have dust on the shelves sometimes because of the construction work nearby. The post office is close by, which is handy for us. We’ve been at this location for a bit, and we know the rhythms of the street now—when it’s going to be jammed and when it’s quiet enough to actually hear yourself think. We keep the lights on late most nights because there is always something that needs rearranging. It’s just how we run things. Nothing too formal, just a bunch of us working with interiors in a spot that’s right in the thick of the city’s movement. It keeps us on our toes.