The Essentialist

The Essentialist

Marching Ahead In Light Years With K-Lite

K-Lite introduces efficient and cost-effective LED bollards and gears up for Light India International 2018.

S+PS Architects

True measure of an architectural practice’s success is when you find it difficult to label or categorise it.

Mindful Mistakes

One-of-a-kind spaces created by The Busride for the ‘Folly House’ are on the identity cusp between gallery and home. Clean geometric patterns and highly multi-faceted furniture pieces dominate this residence’s design scheme which is totally uncaring of convention.

Let There Be Birds

Capturing the essence of nature and encasing it in metal and fabric, artist Abigail Brown plays God as she dreams up fantabulous creatures and breathes a breath just short of life into them.

Art Rovert

Art always returns to nature one way or another, whether it’s figurative or abstract and the body of work of designers Zim&Zou, more than proves this theory. In reality, their work which is rooted in story-telling and acute creativity even transcends the peripheries of art.

Unmasking Grandeur

In the heart of Lakshmi Mills, Mumbai, nestles the city’s latest addition to fine dining. Designed by virtuoso architect, Ashiesh Shah of AA Homes, Masque is a restaurant that redefines indulgence and adventure.

Viega Guarantees Water Supply Even In Frigid Conditions

Installation systems from Viega at the Indian “Bharati” research station in the Antarctic Region guarantee water supply at minus 40°C.

Art Form La La Land

Art always returns to nature one way or another, whether it’s figurative or abstract and the body of work of designers Zim&Zou, more than proves this theory. In reality, their work which is rooted in story-telling and acute creativity even transcends the peripheries of art.

Substance And Sustainability

When a building resonates with the architectural language of a region, including all its ethnic, regional and local dialects, it re-establishes the lost identity and cultural vibrancy of a place. Such building design is best defined as vernacular architecture. Architect Himanshu Patel’s farmhouse is a stunning example of the said genre.

A Blank Canvas

Located in Valsad, Gujarat, this apartment is in fact a beautiful 3-dimensional blank white canvas. The Architectural firm, The Company of Design has painted this canvas with a few strokes of meticulously crafted furniture, but the progression of the final picture is left entirely in the hands of its users.

Ephemeral Works Of Art

Calvin Siebert’s sandcastles teach us two things - first, everything you can imagine is real and second, nothing lasts forever. His ephemeral artworks tend to cast a fragile and almost poetic perspective on the landscapes in which they are created.

Modernizing Lifestyles

Carysil Kitchen Appliances launches Schock Sinks under their TEK Carysil range.

Contemporary Craft

Located in Jaipur, Craftter is a home décor brand that is committed to beautifying spaces with objet d’art conceptualized and designed by their prolific team of designers.

Sculptures That Move

Sculptures That Move

Raw Textures

Raw Textures

Fluid Expressions

Endre Penovac’s paintings are a dramatic dialogue between the control over a craft and the chaotic energy of watercolour. It’s like a dance between his hand and his mind that take turns leading, posing as crucial connectors to the vitality of watercolour painting.

Dramatic Flourishes

In this charming bungalow in Surat, Design Ritmo has succeeded in creating a sense of grandeur by cleverly incorporating theatrical design elements. The outcome does complete justice to the client’s main requirement of ‘a simple but dramatic ambience.’

Roof(s) Overhead

With multiple roofs defining the external appearance of this home in Hyderabad, Khosla Associates have juggled form and function with their customary finesse and created spaces that are at once sophisticated as well as acutely tuned in to the vagaries of the tropical climate.

A Caribbean Escape

At the very heart of Playa Grande beach in the Dominican Republic, lies Amanera, a picturesque getaway to say the least.

Move Over Birthday Balloons!

Japanese artist, Masayoshi Matsumoto's breathtaking balloon art is fast becoming the talk of the town.

We Heart it

Furniture pieces add an unabashed value to your house adding character which coherently reflects the idea of your ‘dream home’.

A Narration Of The Holocaust

Renowned Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind was given the prestigious work of creating Canada’s first national monument dedicated to the millions of Holocaust victims murdered under the Nazi regime. A monument dedicated to the victims of one of humanity’s most gruesome acts is a monument that will reach to the future and remind mankind of what a human is capable of and what the world should not be.

Green By Design

Good landscape design has the power to create a sense of progression, scale and discovery and by cleverly adapting the design vocabulary to its immediate vernacular a tangible authenticity can be created. Architect, Kishore D Pradhan’s masterpieces are born out of exactly such a design ethos.

Crowning Glory

Wrapped in the invigorating air of Mumbai and set amidst clouds, the Jain penthouse already heightens your sense of anticipation. One glimpse of the luxurious living, created using a palette that compliments the stupendous views is then sure to drop your jaw, even as you step inside this dreamy abode.

Contemporarily Indian

D&C Developers’ corporate office in Ahmedabad has been designed by ‘u design studio’; with this project the design and architectural firm has gone ahead and redefined the meaning of Indian contemporary by adding just the right pinch of traditional sensibility to a dish mainly imbued with modern flavour.

Having It All

A two-level bungalow in Vadodara designed by Atelier Design N Domain has a luxurious sprawl. Its clever design promotes both the consolidation of family togetherness and high octane entertaining.

Concrete Chronicles

Material Immaterial is a design studio based in Mumbai. They explore the bare beauty of materials like concrete, papier-mch, wood and brass. All their products are architecturally inspired and are ideal for architecture and design enthusiast to be used as jewellery, home dcor and collectibles.

The Think Tank

Designed by Malik Architecture, Thinqbate is a 4000 sq ft collaborative workspace in Mumbai for start-ups to innovate and build solutions. An incubation venture by the Marwah Group, it has the perfect open ambience to breed futuristic ideas.

Green & Gorgeous

Delhis newest chic boutique designed by Project Co is also an eco-friendly, green store.