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Conscientious Colour

Asian Paints’ Nilaya Naturals is a new range of wall colours that is as easy on the eye as it is on the environment

The Varanasi Technique

The latest collection of hand-knotted carpets from The Carpet Cellar is inspired by the Safavid era—the pinnacle of Persian art and craftmanship

The Carpenter

Pondicherry-based French furniture maker Vincent Roy is one of India’s most in-demand carpenters

Goode Job!

Traditional methods and materials carry forward a legacy of fine craftsmanship in the Thomas Goode workshop in Stoke-on-Trent

The Star Of David

For the 15th edition of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, a British starchitect collaborated with a young, Swiss urbanist and teacher to shine new light on urban planning

Snow White

Three years after launching at Rossana Orlandi, Kolkata-based Scarlet Splendour has graduated to the main fair.

The House Of Fendi

Celebrating 30 years of Fendi Casa, the Italian maison unveiled a collection that is both cutting-edge and traditional

Print House

A tiny new store in Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda district has a big dream: to make art accessible to all.

Blurred Lines

Continuing his exploration into craftsmanship, architect Rooshad Shroff’s latest pieces feature embroidered wood and impossibly carved marble in striking forms that reference his early career. After making their debut at New Delhi’s Bikaner House, the exhibition is moving to Mumbai-based auction house Pundole’s.

Fashion / Anti-Fashion

In a monographic show, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the radical design philosophy of Rei Kawakubo and her label, Comme des Garçons.

Best In Show

One of the last 1914 Wolseley 30/40 HPs in the world won top honours at the fifth edition of the Cartier Concours d’Elegance. DEEPTI UNNI finds out more.

Hey Jo

Ad’s Sanhita Sinha Chowdhury travelled to London to find out about British fragrance brand Jo Malone, which opens its first store in India in July

The Son Rises

Designer Ashley Hicks puts his own provocative stamp on the high-style London apartment that was his famous father’s pride and joy

Museum Quality

A dazzling apartment designed by Ashiesh Shah for art patron Shreyasi Goenka is filled with site-specific works, rare vintage furniture and important contemporary design for a gallery-like feel high above the Mumbai skyline

Case-Study Sculptures

Art meets architecture in three new buildings designed by three blue-chip artists

Inside Studio Peregalli

In this excerpted interview from Grand Tour: The Worldly Projects of Studio Peregalli, a book that showcases the work of Laura Sartori Rimini and Roberto Peregalli, American artist couple Rachel Feinstein and John Currin and English fashion guru Hamish Bowles dissect their common experience of having a home designed by the influential Milan studio

On The Lake

In business scion and art patron Pooja Singhal’s family home in Udaipur, Mumbai-based interior designer Rajiv Saini delicately introduced contemporaneous elements to balance the old and the new while preserving the artisanal elements and the history of the grand structure

Absolutely Fabulous

Gaurav Gupta’s latest store, a flagship in New Delhi, is designed by Studio Lotus, and serves as a monochromatic canvas for the utterly flamboyant and completely surreal

Desert Rose

The National Museum of Qatar, designed by Jean Nouvel, is set to become a beacon of a cultural renaissance, a crucible of the past and the centrepiece of an ancient civilization

House Number 57 The Pierre Jeanneret Residence Chandigarh

After a year-long restoration, the personal house of the great architect and designer now operates as a museum and guest house. checks in first

Golden Pastures

The home that Mangesh Lungare built for his parents in a remote village in Maharashtra showcases where he is from and where he is now, and, to his parents’ great surprise, features 94 light bulbs

Formed Perfectly

At a landmark Manhattan address, interior designer Nebihe Cihan designed a space for a businessman and a connoisseur of modern art

Chef Knows Best

Celebrity chef Gary Mehigan and his wife Mandy have collaborated with Nicobar on a line of cookware that delicately blends Indian and Australian influences

the reality of a dream home

during the fifth season of upload & transform—a consumer engagement programme by godrej interio—bollywood actor sonu sood fulfilled his mother’s long-standing dream of renovating their family home

The Boy With The Pearl Earring

Jewellery designer Hanut Singhs sophisticated aesthetic manifests in his ancestral Mussoorie cottage as aristocratic eccentricity, firmly anchored in a sense of place

The Last Supper

To be invited to dine in the kitchen of Azzedine Alaa was to be invited into the upper echelons of the fashion elite. Mumbai-based master embroiderer MaxiMiliano Modesti had a permanent seat at the table, alongside Naomi, Stephanie et al. In a moving account of what it was like to dine in the worlds most exclusive kitchen, he fondly remembers his mentor and friend, the late, great Azzedine

Now You See It

Valcucines newest model in the brands Logica series, seen at EuroCucina this year, uses clever concealment and reveal elements in what is its most sophisticated kitchen till date

Fendi Cucine

When a cutting-edge Italian luxury fashion brand gets into the kitchen, you know things are going to get really hot

the new sri lanka parliament, 1979-1982

the terraces beside the members’ dining room. bottom: the main chamber with a palm-frond chandelier and silver korale flags lining the debating chamber.

The Real Sabya

A grand old Calcutta mansion set in magnificent gardens is the new home for the king of Indian fashion, Sabyasachi Mukherjee. A place where he can be himself, by himself