ART AND HOME ARE INTERTWINED IN THE LIFE AND JOURNEY OF RADHIKA CHOPRA, AS IN HER CURRENT RESIDENCE, A HISTORIC KARL MALTE VON HEINZ MANSION IN NEW DELHI. HERE, AND EVERYWHERE SHE GOES, ART IS HOME

Moving continents and cities, and the many homes she has lived in, Radhika Chopra reflects that the one unvarying constant has been art— each carefully selected work, packed and unpacked, part of an evolving and rearranged collection, each unfurling its own story with an embedded history.

- SUNIL SETHI

Bharti Kher’s bindi on painted board, titled One Part of the Brain Working, dominates the living room. Alongside is an antique wooden sculpture acquired in Kochi. “It was lovely dressing up for this photograph, I can’t remember the last time I wore a dress and heels, “says Radhika Chopra, seen here in Dior. Her Delhi home, in which she lives with her husband Rajan Anandan and daughter Maya, was designed by Karl Malte von Heinz, a German-Austrian architect who worked in the capital in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Ambassador, Chopra’s labradoodle, sits beneath a copper sculpture by American artist Lynda Benglis, titled Brother Animals (1993), which is paired with the Serengeti table by Vikram Goyal for Viya Home. Chopra had long admired Benglis’s works from her days when she worked at the Bose Pacia gallery in New York, in the late 1990s. On a 2017 trip to Ahmedabad, she discovered the artist’s long-standing connection to India and was compelled to acquire the piece.

A Strand brass bench by Vikram Goyal for Viya Home sits in front of a classic Heinz fireplace. Above it is Shilpa Gupta’s neon-light sculpture Where Do I End and You Begin and an assortment of works by S.H. Raza, Louise Bourgeois, and Anni Albers. “I love using the space on the fireplace mantle to curate small works. Their placement makes for a congenial conversation piece with art-loving guests,” says Chopra.