In a city that teaches you to get your head down and push forward every day, it’s ironic that we miss the beauty right beneath our feet. The age-old floors of Mumbai’s heritage buildings offer a window to a time when novel, innovative designs had their own admirers, long before gentrified spaces became the norm.  Tiling Bombay, a series of postcards by city-based studio Kahani Designworks, gives these tiles that shaped Bombay in the 1860s a new lease of life through a series of postcards.

“We have been researching the city’s architecture extensively for a project titled Storycity since 2013. That’s when we realised that the institutions that emerged during Bombay’s transition from a town to a metropolitan city in the 1860s host some immaculate tile-work,” reveals Ruchita Madhok, founder, adding that the British architects’ foresight of building public spaces with high quality materials that could stand the test of time makes these tiles worth a timely revisit in today’s age.