Also, the café offers a range of beverages including nonalcoholic beer.ĭomus Designs is the collaborative effort of Prasad Nagendran and Suren Samarathunga who are ardent lovers of art and interior designing. However their speciality dish is the ‘ Perettu rice’ (Perettu is tamil for mix or turned over), an authentic Jaffna style mixed rice made with mutton. The menu provides a mix up of delicious all-time favourites such as fish and chips, biriyani, club sandwiches, pastas and scrumptious sea food platters. This café is an ideal place to enjoy a pleasant brunch, catch a coffee-break or when hunger pangs arise as you stroll around Galle Face Green. The colourful paintings that are hung in the high walls and the furniture with decoupage work would instantly catch your attention and beckon you inside. The shop also sponsors emerging local artists.Īdjoining the shop is the Domus Café, a small yet breezy food joint with a snug ambience. ![]() Glancing through the shop, one would find several hand painted decoupage motifs, stunningly integrated into mirrors, trays, boxes, urns, vases, plates and frames all of which are specially manufactured for Domus Designs. But what you create in the end is worth the toil”, he said. It is a very tedious process and requires lot of patience to make a single piece. “Decoupage is a unique art form, whose value is recognised only by very few in this part of the world. Prasad Nagendran, one of the founders of Domus Designs is a self- taught decoupage artist. Decoupage was recently revived, after many took an interest in this beauteous art form. The painting is done underneath glass surfaces. Originating from Italy and France, the decoupage painting technique involves layering of images by incorporating silver or gold leaf in order to achieve a 3D finish. The main forte of Domus Designs is ‘Decoupage’, which is an ancient art form of the 17 th Century. Also, one can be assured that the exhibits are one-of-a-kind, since it is either personally handpicked or custom designed by the owners of Domus Designs themselves. ![]() Be it the walls decorated by stencil paint or the stash of plush throw pillows in vibrant colours, everything had a personal touch. Entering the shop is like setting foot to a drawing room of a fervent art collector’s home, for there were collections of rare ornaments, gift items, furniture sculptures and paintings displayed against soothing white walls. Situated within the Galle Face Court precinct Domus Designs is a quaint little space dedicated for art and exquisite collectibles. Words Archna Balakumar | Photographs Dilshi Thathsarani ![]() Domus Designs is one of the best shops in the city to buy gift articles or ornaments that you otherwise wouldn’t find anywhere else.
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