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Line 4: {{Infobox architect | name = Sunita Kohli | image = | caption = | nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]] | birth_date = {{ | birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India|India]] | occupation = [[interior designer]] Line 16: | significant_design = Known to be original, research-based and culture specific in response to different locations across India and other countries. | awards = [[Padma Shri]] | website = {{ }} '''Sunita Kohli''' is an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[ She was awarded the [[Padma Shri]] by the [[Government of India]] in 1992.<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards|publisher=[[Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)|Ministry of Communications and Information Technology]]|url=http://india.gov.in/myindia/padma_awards.php}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=House of TATA: Padma Shri awardee Sunita Kohli believes creativity is part of DNA|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/padma-shri-awardee-sunita-kohli-believes-creativity-is-part-of-dna/articleshow/71384819.cms|access-date=2021-02-16}}</ref> Line 28: She taught at [[Loreto Convent Lucknow]], before the "accidental" start of her career in interior design.<ref name="forb"/><ref name="to"/> After her marriage, she and her husband started frequenting ''[[Kabadi Wala|kabadi]]'' shops in their free time, looking for 19th century English furniture and lamps in Lucknow, Rajasthan and the hill resorts of Dehradun and Mussoorie. Soon Kohli converted her interest into an [[antiquarian]] business through which she sold [[Davenport desk]]s and Regency [[wine table]]s. She learnt restoration of furniture from local master-craftsmen, which led to the start of her restoration business.<ref name="forb"/> She established Sunita Kohli Interior Designs, an interior design firm in New Delhi, in 1971. In the following year was established Sunita Kohli & Company, which manufactures contemporary classic furniture and fine reproductions of Art Deco, Biedermeier and Anglo-Indian colonial furniture. Most recently, her company K2india whose CEO is her architect daughter Kohelika Kohli launched a fine collection of Mid-Century Furniture.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saraswat-Satpathy |first=Kriti |date=2022-12-16 |title=K2India |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/story/k2india-ad-design-show-2022/ |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=Architectural Digest India |language=en-IN}}</ref> Her career, added another dimension, when in the mid-1970s she established in partnership, another design firm which was commissioned to design a small hotel for the [[Oberoi Group]], near the [[Khajuraho]] temples, The Oberoi in Bhubaneshwar and the Hotel Babylon in Baghdad. This firm closed but other hotel design projects followed in Cairo, Aswan and El-Arish in Egypt- The Oberoi [[Marriott Mena House Hotel]] and Casino, overlooking the Pyramids of [[Giza]]; two luxury hotel cruise boats on the Nile for the Oberoi Group; The Oberoi Aswan in Upper Egypt and The Oberoi in El-Arish, on the north coast of the Sinai Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea. In the mid-1990s, she designed The Oberoi Philae Cruiser, another luxury hotel boat. For Mr. PRS Oberoi, she restored and decorated, for his personal use, the 250-year-old Naila Fort, near Jaipur. Over the years she has designed several hotels, resorts and private residences in India and Sri Lanka. In Lahore, Pakistan, she has also worked on the restoration and conversion into a boutique hotel, of a late Sikh-period haveli in the Old City, overlooking the 17th century world heritage sites of the Lahore Fort and the Badshahi Mosque. In the early 1990s, she did the interior design of the British Council Building in New Delhi. She also designed the National Assembly Building in Thimpu, Bhutan. This Parliament Building was again worked on in 2010, by K2INDIA for the SAARC Summit in Bhutan. She has also been involved in the restoration and redecoration of numerous [[British Raj]] period buildings in New Delhi, mainly designed by Sir [[Edwin Lutyens]], Sir [[Robert Tor Russell]] and Sir [[Herbert Baker]], including Rashtrapati Bhawan (formerly Viceroy's House), the Prime Minister's Office, Parliament House and Hyderabad House.<ref name="forb">{{cite magazine|url=http://members.forbes.com/global/2007/0702/072.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110711020150/http://members.forbes.com/global/2007/0702/072.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 July 2011|title=Forbes Global Life: Designing Woman|date=7 February 2007|magazine=Forbes}}</ref><ref name=em>{{cite web|url=http://halleinstitute.emory.edu/distinguished_fellows/%20Kohli.html|title=Sunita Kohli Halle Distinguished Fellow, April 22–25, 2007|publisher=Halle Institute, [[Emory University]]}}</ref> Line 59: [[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts]] [[Category:Indian interior designers]] [[Category:Indian brands]]▼ [[Category:Delhi University alumni]] [[Category:University of Lucknow alumni]] Line 67 ⟶ 66: [[Category:20th-century Indian designers]] [[Category:Artists from Lahore]] [[Category:Indian designers]]▼ [[Category:Indian women architects]] [[Category:20th-century Indian architects]] Line 74 ⟶ 72: [[Category:21st-century Indian businesswomen]] [[Category:21st-century Indian designers]] ▲[[Category:21st-century Indian [[Category:21st-century Indian women writers]] ▲[[Category:Indian | |||