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WORLDLY TASTES OF INDIAN ROYALTY
Through ambitious commissions that demanded scale, spectacle and symbolism, Indian royalty shaped how European maisons viewed luxury
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December 2025 - January 2026
Elle Decor India
RADHIKARAJE GAEKWAD A MAHARANI'S ROYAL CHAPTER FROM BARODA
When you grow up surrounded by beauty and maximalism, do you ever learn to see it anew again? The answer to this can be simple, complicated or even unfound. \"There is maximalism in my life, but it has become so normalised that it doesn't appear maximalism anymore.
5 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
Elle Decor India
INDIA'S SUPPLY CHAIN MAXIMALISM AS A FUNCTION OF DENSITY
India's markets show how multiplicity organises itself into commerce, where density and diversity make maximalism the country's most efficient and democratic infrastructure of trade
8 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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REDEFINING HERITAGE CRAFT
Wicker Story melds contemporary nuances with age-old indigenous weaving crafts, resulting in heritage-driven bespoke creations
1 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
Elle Decor India
HEIRLOOM MODERNISM
Jaya Pereira's residence, designed by Temple Town, is an ode to heirloom modernism, championing sustainability through materiality
1 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
Elle Decor India
MAXIMALISM THROUGH INDIA'S CIVILISATIONAL CRAFTS
As a designer and an architectural conservationist, I have long been drawn to the layered beauty of India's crafts — their ability to transform material into meaning and ornament into philosophy.
8 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
Elle Decor India
THE PLURAL LEGACY OF INDIA
Traversing the length and breadth of the country, we trace our lineage of spirituality, expressed through places of worship
6 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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GUIDED BY CRAFT, SHAPED BY INTUITIVE RESTRAINT
Expansive yet intimate. Artisanal yet contemporary. DWG Designs crafts a Mumbai home mammoth in both scale and detail
1 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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HIS HIGHNESS SAWAI PADMANABH SINGH OF JAIPUR JAIPUR'S THRONE IN THE AGE OF DEMOCRACY
All of 27 years old, in the league of the Generation Z, a descendant of the erstwhile clan of the Kachhwaha Rajputs and crowned at the age of 12, His Highness Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur stands at rare crossroads: born into history, living in the present and shaping a future.
3 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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THE BOOK OF GOLD AND THE INCALCULABLE VALUE OF MEHNAT
There's a particular quality to work done carefully and meticulously – by hand, with care, detail after detail, meant to last for centuries – that transfixes each one of us that encounters it.
6 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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A VERNACULAR DESIGN LANGUAGE
Honouring Mysore's endangered inlay tradition, Vernacular Modern returns to mastery with Co-existence
1 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
Elle Decor India
UMANG HUTHEESING MAXIMALISM, MEMORY, EVIDENCE AND AHMEDABAD
Khadi versus makhmal. This comparison is barely uttered in normal social settings in India. One is quiet and conscious.
4 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
Elle Decor India
THE GREAT SPECTACLES OF INDIA: RITUAL PERFORMANCE AND SPORT
India has always blurred the lines between ritual, performance and sport. Each is an offering, a form of worship — to gods, to nature, to community.
3 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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THE COLOSSEUM: CRAFTING INDIA'S LANGUAGE OF LUXURY STYLING
The interior design studio is shaping immersive experiences across India's largest interiors, leading with an eye for craft and detail
1 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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YOGESH CHAUDHARY MAXIMALISM MEASURED IN KNOTS
When I meet Yogesh Chaudhary inside the Jaipur Rugs gallery at Narain Niwas, he is surrounded by carpets that predate India. Pieces woven in nomadic tents, royal courts, villages and in countries that have now been renamed or redrawn.
4 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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THE GREAT INDIAN STORY OF PAPAD AND ACHAAR
When I look back at my childhood, often spent with my grandmother making papad and achaar, what remains with me is not just the taste but the process itself — the choreography of women working under the winter sun, our palms dusted with flour, the dough kneaded in wide paraats, papads laid out on the terrace, chillies slit and salted for achaar, fingers stained with turmeric and the scent of crushed spices in the air.
4 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
Elle Decor India
PRINCESS ESRA BIRGEN JAH A MINIMALIST IN THE NIZAM'S PALACE
Hyderabad’s story is often told through its diamonds and its Nizams. A land that gifted the world some of its most expensive, rare gemstones. An economy that rivalled small European nations. And a Nizam whose wealth was estimated at two percent of the American GDP during his time.
4 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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AMBIENCE ENGINEERED
Guided by an in-house approach, Modular Lighting Instruments crafts luminaires that leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of precision
1 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
Elle Decor India
THE ART OF BEAUTY AND ADORNMENT
No language of the Indian subcontinent offers a single term that encapsulates maximalism.
5 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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GERMAN PRECISION
Fostering innovation since 1817, Duravit now engineers the future of bathrooms today with timeless design and thoughtful innovation
1 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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FROM THE DECCAN: CRAFT, ARCHITECTURE AND THE LIVES THEY FRAME
In the Deccan, surfaces are rarely still. From temple towns to mercantile streets, a single decorative instinct runs through the region: an inclination towards density, layering and naturalistic detail.
6 min |
December 2025 - January 2026
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BETWEEN STONE AND SKY
Thoughtfully designed, this family home in Gurugram by Mass Void Architects makes a sanctuary in the city
1 min |
October - November 2025
Elle Decor India
IN AWE OF ANANTARA
The New York Palace in Budapest lets you eat, sleep and wonder inside a building that has moved through money, literature and hospitality without losing itself
3 min |
October - November 2025
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CRAFTED FOR THE CURIOUS
The Bicester Collection invites global travellers to explore its immersive Villages, where they redefine the joy of a luxury shopping experience
1 min |
October - November 2025
Elle Decor India
THE IYIKONIC, WHERE LIGHT BREATHES LIFE IN DESIGN
A modern house by Archvilla Architects in the city of Jalandhar
2 min |
October - November 2025
Elle Decor India
TIMELESS CRAFTSMANSHIP
Duravit's Elite Circle event in Indore sees a thoughtful overlap between the careful craft of watchmaking and architecture
1 min |
October - November 2025
Elle Decor India
THE QUIET LUXURY OF INTERIA
DLF Crest is thoughtfully painted in plush tones through Interia, layered in inspiration
1 min |
October - November 2025
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A HOME OF LIVING HISTORIES
Anjum Jung's own family home in Bengaluru, designed by her firm Morph Design Company with architecture by Rahul Mehrotra of RMA Architects, is a heartfelt confluence of old-world charm, contemporary vision and family heirlooms
3 min |
October - November 2025
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TALES FROM KUTCH
In Bhuj, I found a world where the land and loom speak the same language
1 min |
October - November 2025
Elle Decor India
PALKENDE THIS HOME IS NOT STAGED
Akshat Bhatt's home in New Delhi is technically rigorous yet deeply personal, balancing restraint and intelligence paring back ornamentation in favour of light and precision
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