Looking for a heritage home?

Cumbrous classical furniture and heavy drapery with a smattering of suspended pop art "" Delhi-born Renaisaance Homez that boasts of having decorated some of the country's richest homes just set shop in Mumbai.

Promoters Anjaleka Kriplani and Shaifalika Panda even managed to coax Vijay Mallya, a pleased customer, into cutting the customary ribbon.

The promoters stress on their intent to provide you with "heritage" homes replete with heirloom-worthy furniture. And although the old-world furniture crafting suggests a restrictive aesthetic, Kriplani insists the store isn't about set periods.

"We started with pure classical," says the FIT interior architecture graduate, remembering the challenge set by the Moroccan theme of Mallya's Delhi home. Today though, she's comfortable with a fused design that is more accommodating but just as distinctive.

Back in the mid-90s, Renaisaance led the way in imported high-end furniture and Kriplani believes that even today they stand for industry standard-bearers with some of the world's most-coveted brands "" Baker, Henredon, Milling Road.

"Baker's Art Deco lines makes it a very popular choice," she offers. The services extend to furnishings, where, once again, the selection is very respectable "" Beacon Hill and Robert Allen and accessories dominated by crystal.

It hasn't, however, been all fun and games. The government's brief ban on imported furniture in the 90s and crippling taxes threatened to disturb ambition but today, duties are down and the company's services accessible to not just the uber-rich. Or so they claim.

Though the merchandise seems like it would lend itself to gracious villas; not cramped urban dwellings. "I don't know why Indians are so shy about discussing their budgets upfront, it saves so much trouble later and allows us to give them value for money," says Kriplani.

In January, Kriplani suggests, Renaisaance will unveil a Scandinavian countenance. They also plan to promote contemporary artists; Kriplani is a personal fan of Sanjay Bhattacharya and Bose Krishnamachari.

Their Mumbai showroom in Colaba's luxury retail cluster, Courtyard, seems tiny, but for the Kriplani sisters, it's more representative than anything else.