About the designer Rajnish Hedao is well-known in Bollywood and the advertising industry.
Rajnish Hedao
CEO, Architect & Designer
Rajnish Hedao is a well-known name when it comes to Bollywood, OTT platforms, television and the advertising industry. After his graduation from Sir J. J. college of Architecture, Mumbai, Rajnish walked into production design. He started Acropolis Design Management Group in 1997, with two other partners. To date, Acropolis has created sets for 50 or more feature films and web series, over 3000 television commercials, and around 100 music videos.
He received the Filmfare awards for production design twice, for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2014) and The Forgotten Army (2020). He also received the Zine Cine award for his work in the film Guzaarish (2011). In 2015, Acropolis bagged the production design award for PK at the Fiji Film Festival and in 2022, 83 received the Power Brand BFJA award. One might recall some of Rajnish's memorable creations for production designs in movies like 3 Idiots, Rockstar, Tamasha, Sultan, Tiger Zinda Hai, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Chandu Champion – bringing forth a wide range of aesthetics catered to uplift each film’s premise.
As evolution is the natural path of a true artist’s journey, after living and creating these vast experiences in production design, Rajnish has now stepped into manifesting the visions for Hedao – art installations and furniture which combine his knowledge, passion and vision in an absolute ingenious manner.
Hedao
A Story of Wood & Wings
Exceptional innovations often stand on the foundation of tried-and-true pasts. We believe, the clarity of an artist’s vision determines the originality of his art. At Hedao, our newest creations bring together the familiar bygone with original paintings of the ever-present nature – showcasing a novelty that stands apart.
Each piece is a marriage between the once functional and everyday item of yesterday with the fragile magnificence of flora, fauna and feathers – these unions offer a completely fresh take in the world of art installations. At Hedao, our art merges two streams which were perhaps never thought to be one, yet upon their blend become that much more distinctive and harmonized.
It could be an old steam boiler, or a brass tea kettle - a samovar, from the last century, objects which might make one stop and recall memories tucked away from childhood or old photographs. Objects which have little functional value but immeasurable emotional worth, objects which were once part of our daily lives but presently kept in storage spaces or rotting in second and third hand stores.
Bringing back the aesthetics of these old objects soaked in nostalgia, and adding to them original paintings of exquisite, ephemeral, and elusive beauties, we aspire to evoke wondrous gratification to the eyes of art connoisseurs.
Hedao pieces elevate to an extra measure with the power of its original paintings. The elaborate and striking imageries, inspired by nature and lithographic printing, are drawn to be masterpieces – they can change the ambiance of any and all spaces.
Each piece of art, is inspired by elements of past and present yet defines art for the future. Each piece brings in both the longevity of metal or wood with the fine paintings of pretty-fleeting things with wings, or lotuses which only live for a day and a night.
Our creations bring the unmatched together and make them immortal and forever united – singular and striking.