Ahlawat Gunjan’s practice exists at the confluence of literature, art, and design—a rare intersection where narrative becomes form and ​a​esthetics finds its purpose. With a recent MA in Interior Design from the ​prestigious Royal College of Art, ​h​e has expanded his creative terrain, bringing a seasoned understanding of visual storytelling into the spatial realm. His work moves fluidly between London and New Delhi, embodying a global sensibility that infuses each project with multicultural nuance and contemporary relevance.

For Ahlawat, a book and an interior space are kindred mediums—each a vessel for story, each an architecture of experience. The essence of his practice remains constant: to give form to narrative, to make beauty inhabitable, and to render intention visible. His work thrives in the dialogue between concept and craft, between the honesty of material and the resonance of emotion. Increasingly, his focus turns toward the ecology of design—recycling, repurposing, and reimagining spaces and materials to uncover new purposes and possibilities.

Previously trained at the Glasgow School of Art, he is a graduate of National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. His formative apprenticeships at Lars Mullers in Switzerland and Faber & Faber in the UK​ established a sophisticated and bespoke visual vocabulary in publishing design. His book cover​ designs serve as visual preludes to the stories they house, each design a dialogue between form and content. During his transformative decade as Art Director at Penguin Random House India, Ahlawat drove the visual language for literary luminaries including Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Jhumpa Lahiri, Orhan Pamuk and many others.

Now based in London, Ahlawat continues to inhabit the fertile border between disciplines. His work suggests that the line between a page and a room, between reading and dwelling, is thinner than we imagine—and that both, at their best, are ways of living inside a story.