Achiever's Success Story
“Abhishek Rustagi, Partner, Design By Meta”
Abhishek Rustagi, Partner at Design By Meta, is an accomplished architect and interior designer hailing from New Delhi, who specializes in real estate management. He has worked on projects of varied nature and scale that has given him experience in project management, interior design and design development of architectural solutions for large projects in the field. His training and meticulous approach to design and direction of others in the construction arena creates a collaborative platform of work ethic. A top down/non hierarchal approach to business management characterizes his agenda to collaborative alliances in the industry.
On the professional front, he worked with Vatika Ltd. (2013), Jasbir Sawhney and Associates (2008-2012) and Morphogenesis Architecture Studio (2006-2007), before starting his own practice of Design By Meta in 2015 with Ms. Nomita Sawhney. His talent has been appreciated from his younger years, when he won several Shankar International art competitions from the age of 7 to 10 years. He has also been credited with a nomination as a finalist in the “Retail Design Week London” for best International store design at London retail week 2017, Semi-finalists at Festival of Architecture and Interior Design 2017 as well as 2018 along with being awarded at National Architecture and Interior Design Excellence Awards 2020 for “Most Creative and leading Design Firm in North India in Retail and Commercial Category”.
In addition to the accolades and distinguished credits through the years in practice, he has a keen interest in art and photography. The body of work to his credit has an amalgamation of styles and influences through his varied travels and experiences. He believes in the principles of customer utility and trust establishment along with pocket friendly services.
Abhishek’s work is colorful, playful, fresh and innovative in its essence. Often creating a whole new perspective or outlook for certain brands which he engages with and re-creates a new ideology for their image and outlook. He has been successful in creating a new brand image for several top end brands in the Indian market like Forest Essentials, Biotique Botanicals, Shahnaz Husain, Khan Chacha, Rule the Rolls, Heads up for Tails, Citrus Café Lemon Tree Hotels, My Glamm and Mr Choy to name a few of the many brands. He is currently associated with Jasbir Sawhney& Associates as Senior Design Consultant for projects like Park Hyatt, New Delhi and Expansion of ITC Grand Goa along with several high-end residences across NCR along with projects in Thimphu, Bhutan for Design By Meta.
He is a part various other set-ups like Visuary – a premium image with curated and exclusive photographic content sourced from a collaboration of select photographers; Pine Cone Design – a home décor brand and Deliquest – a home grown bakery and gourmet food experience.