Embroidered Siren wall art framed like a Taj Mahal doorway at Starbucks Taj Eatery, Agra

Starbucks Taj Eatery, Agra

Client
Starbucks Corporation
Category
Spaces
Year
2023

Installation Art

  • Zardozi Embroidery
  • Appliqué on Canvas
Concept artwork of the coffee-botanical border for the Starbucks Taj Eatery Siren embroidery, Agra

Drawing on the Taj Mahal's architecture and ornament, this wall-art piece is embroidered by Agra's Zardozi artisans in their traditional badla, salma, dabka, sitara and nakshi work. The Starbucks Siren is rendered in elaborate embroidery on cotton canvas, in colours drawn from the monument's carvings, with coffee botanicals echoing its symmetrical plant motifs and a two-part frame modelled on Mughal doorways.

Detail of the Zardozi embroidery at Starbucks Taj Eatery, Agra
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Detail of the gold Zardozi coffee-flower embroidery in progress at Starbucks Taj Eatery, Agra
Starbucks Taj Eatery, Agra, store interior
Starbucks Taj Eatery, Agra, store interior
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