Nadia Bonfini has gone from being a skiing champion to a furnishing and accessories designer, moving from Italy to India to do so. By Purabi Shridhar

AS a skiing champ, Italian Nadia Bonfini was used to travelling from an early age. But even she, as she scaled down challenging slopes on her skis, never thought she would one day be a furnishing and home accessories designer working in semi-tropical India!

The 38-year-old Delhi-based designer for the French Company ‘Idea Plus’, who also does sourcing, says, “I always wanted change, I didn’t want to get stuck.”

Obviously it was her sense of adventure that got her to say ‘yes’ to an offer from a Brazilian to work for a US buying house sourcing embroidery works from India.

From 1994, she started visiting India and for the last four years she has been working with the Idea Plus group. She has even managed to open a store in the tony 1, MG Road shopping complex.