Shreenu Mukherjee, interior designer and co-founder of Atelier Shreenu by The Vrindavan Project in Gurugram, left a design practice in Bombay for Auroville, where she met the architect Ranjeet Mukherjee in 2010. They married in Mumbai in 2012 and founded The Vrindavan Project that year. Raised and educated in Bombay (now Mumbai), she trained at LS Raheja School of Architecture and spent seven years, from 2003 to 2010, at Talati and Panthaky Associated Designers before the move. Her work draws on heritage, craft, natural materials and yoga.
Coverage of the studio and its projects include Architectural Digest India, Elle Decor India, Architecture+Design (cover feature, July 2023), Habitus Living, India Design ID and IndesignLive.
This profile draws on answers Shreenu shared with Ladies Who Lead (LWL), a network for women leaders and entrepreneurs in India, in November 2025, together with Architecture+Design (2023) and other published coverage of her work, listed at the end. Quotations without a named source are from her LWL answers. Quotations from published interviews are credited where they appear.
Where did her design eye come from?
Shreenu grew up on Marine Drive in Bombay, a name she still uses, among Art Deco buildings that, she explains in Architecture+Design (July 2023), “made a profound impact on my design sensibilities”. In her LWL answers she describes a city that holds Gothic, Art Deco, Bauhaus and contemporary design side by side. She studied at Fort Convent School and Sophia College before architecture at LS Raheja.
She describes design as “connection with history, place, and people”. At the Heirloom House, a holiday home in Dera Mandi, Chhatarpur New Delhi, built between May 2023 and July 2024, local artisans made the wooden pieces and stone inlay, drawing on Rajasthani craft and motif, and color is treated as a language of its own, according to India Design ID. The master bedroom floats over the pool, and Art Deco also appears in the materials of the house.
How did Auroville shape the practice?
In the July 2023 cover feature in Architecture+Design, Shreenu explains that “the call to leave Mumbai and become a part of the Auroville community was spiritual in nature”. There she began working at Buildaur, the architecture office where Ranjeet, who trained at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, already practiced. He had lived in the township for five years, according to his Houzz profile. In her LWL answers she says Auroville is where she learned to work with natural materials that are “both beautiful and practical”, and that she and Ranjeet founded The Vrindavan Project “to make spaces that combine awareness with sustainability and strong design”.
The Vrindavan Project was the studio’s first name. Today the same practice, with the same two founders, continues as Atelier Shreenu by The Vrindavan Project, working across architecture and interiors from Gurugram. The studio sets out the change in its own post. Read more about the move from The Vrindavan Project to Atelier Shreenu.
Which projects has she designed?
Interiors led by Shreenu
• The Heirloom House, Dera Mandi, New Delhi. A 5,000 square foot holiday home, built between May 2023 and July 2024, with interiors and landscape by the studio, and the interiors led by Shreenu. It is also featured in Architectural Digest India.
• Lithoscape, Gurugram. A 3,500 square foot condominium, completed in 2022, with a design that evolved over a year and a half. Interior design by Shreenu, and the client gave her carte blanche.
• Koko Pizzeria, also known as Crunch Patisserie. One café under two names after a rebrand, built in 2015, with its interior designed by Shreenu.
Studio projects she has spoken about
• Holmwood, Mussoorie. A colonial house about 150 years old, converted over four years into an earthquake resistant home for a joint family.
• City House, Jammu, also known as the Jammu House. A 10,000 square foot home for several generations, 2017 to 2021, with eight bedrooms as described by Habitus Living. Elle Decor India also covered the house: Jammu home by The Vrindavan Project shines light on serene design.
• Bhatia Farm House, Ondhe, Thane. A two bedroom weekend getaway for a small family from Mumbai, also described by Habitus Living. Its walls are rammed earth (compacted soil), built with village labour, and it uses salvaged Karaikkudi timber and terracotta pot ceiling fillers.
Shreenu does not describe Holmwood as an easy project. In Architecture+Design (July 2023) she calls the four year conversion “a test of rigor and perseverance, skill and sheer will power”.
What is it like to work with her?
The family behind the Koko Pizzeria café returned for their home, Lithoscape, and gave her a free hand, which Architecture+Design describes as carte blanche.
The studio begins with a complimentary ten minute Discovery Phone Call. A thirty minute Google Meet or a site visit follows, depending on the project. When she and Ranjeet renovated their own home office studio, he played the client. She says: “my husband turned out to be quite a fun client to work with”.
How does yoga sit alongside her design thinking?
In her LWL answers, Shreenu says that in her late thirties, after years of living in different cities, she decided she had to “take charge of my own well-being”. Yoga came first. A wider habit of holistic living, martial arts included, followed. In Architecture+Design she explains that her inquiry began with her own breath, with Prana, and that studying Ashtanga and Hatha yoga gave her the insight of seamless interconnectivity. “As my Yogic practices have evolved, in turn my understanding of design has followed.”
“For us, a certain calm and balance with a restrained approach to design become fundamental.” Shreenu Mukherjee, Architecture+Design, June 2023
What has she said about women on construction sites?
In a 2024 IndesignLive feature by Nikita Bhopti, with photography by Ranjeet Mukherjee, Shreenu describes how Indian building sites work. The studio works with local contractors who bring workers from their own villages, often as whole families, and women are frequently permanent members of a site team while single men are moved from one site to another. She calls the site a “social learning environment that functions like a micro-village”.
What does empowerment mean to her?
Shreenu defines empowerment as “embracing every part of yourself, creative, intellectual, physical, and spiritual”. Her advice to designers starting a practice, given in Architecture+Design in July 2023, is shorter: “Just start now!”
What has she said she would like to build?
In Architecture+Design (July 2023) Shreenu says she and Ranjeet would like to build a studio retreat on a small farm, “so that we can grow our own food and live closer to the land”. She would also like to design a school someday.
Frequently asked questions about Shreenu Mukherjee
Who is Shreenu Mukherjee?
Shreenu Mukherjee leads interior design at Atelier Shreenu by The Vrindavan Project, the Gurugram practice she runs with her husband, the architect Ranjeet Mukherjee. Her interiors include the Heirloom House in New Delhi and Lithoscape in Gurugram, and her approach draws on craft, natural materials and yoga.
What is Shreenu Mukherjee’s role on a project?
Shreenu Mukherjee is co-founder and principal designer of Atelier Shreenu by The Vrindavan Project, where she leads the interiors and takes part in project decisions from the start. She works in tandem with the architect Ranjeet Mukherjee from the first line drawn, so a project’s architecture and interiors are resolved together.
Where did Shreenu Mukherjee train?
Shreenu Mukherjee studied at LS Raheja School of Architecture in Bombay, after schooling at Fort Convent and Sophia College. She spent seven years at Talati and Panthaky Associated Designers, then moved to Auroville. She and Ranjeet Mukherjee later founded The Vrindavan Project, now Atelier Shreenu by The Vrindavan Project.
What is the connection between The Vrindavan Project and Atelier Shreenu?
The Vrindavan Project is the architecture and interior design practice that Shreenu and Ranjeet Mukherjee founded in 2012. It continues as Atelier Shreenu by The Vrindavan Project, led by the same two founders and working the same way, now under one name from Palam Vihar, Gurugram.
What does Atelier Shreenu design?
Atelier Shreenu by The Vrindavan Project designs residential homes and farmhouses, restorations of heritage buildings, cafés and select commercial spaces. It takes on architecture, interior design or both together, and treats the two as a single discipline wherever a project allows, so the building and its interiors are planned as one.
Where is the Atelier Shreenu studio, and does it work outside Delhi NCR?
Atelier Shreenu by The Vrindavan Project has its studio in Palam Vihar, Gurugram, and receives visitors by appointment only. The practice works across India, and its founders travel for site visits. Past projects include homes in Gurugram and Sohna, a farmhouse in Chhatarpur, a heritage conversion in Mussoorie, a house in Jammu and a farmhouse in Thane.
How do I begin a project with Atelier Shreenu?
A project with Atelier Shreenu by The Vrindavan Project begins with a complimentary ten minute Discovery Phone Call, requested through the enquiry form on the website. The studio then suggests a thirty minute Google Meet or a site visit, which is a regional visit within the NCR or an overnight stay for projects beyond it.
Which publications have featured Shreenu Mukherjee’s work?
Architectural Digest India, Elle Decor India, Architecture+Design, Habitus Living, India Design ID and IndesignLive have covered Shreenu Mukherjee’s work, much of it published when Atelier Shreenu by The Vrindavan Project was still called The Vrindavan Project. Architecture+Design ran a July 2023 cover feature, “Finding Spirituality in Design”, interviewing Shreenu and Ranjeet Mukherjee.
Continue reading
• The move from The Vrindavan Project to Atelier Shreenu
• Selected work from the studio
Begin a conversation with the studio
If you would like to speak with Shreenu about a home of your own, write to the studio through the enquiry form. You can also follow her work on Instagram at @shreenu.mukherjee and connect with her on LinkedIn.
Further reading
• Elle Decor India: Jammu home by The Vrindavan Project shines light on serene design
• Habitus Living: The Vrindavan Project, shaping India’s modern day family home
• India Design ID: The Heirloom House by The Vrindavan Project
• Re-Thinking The Future: Lithoscape, a Gurugram home interior by Shreenu Mukherjee
• IndesignLive: Women in construction across India
• ArchiDiaries: The Vrindavan Project practice profile
• Architecture+Design: Shreenu and Ranjeet Mukherjee of The Vrindavan Project, July 2023 cover feature “Finding Spirituality in Design”, interview by Seema Sreedharan
• Architecture+Design, June 2023 issue: project profile of the Gurugram home interior (print)
Written by Team Atelier Shreenu.