Architecture
AD Architectural Digest India
SONAM KAPOOR AHUJA
Intensely intimate. Filled with art. A little bit of London. Plenty of India. Some velvet Rose Uniacke and gorgeous de Gournay on the walls. Magic finds from Paul Bert Serpette and solid wood floors. Love, laughter, and life. Imagined, curated, and choreographed by the actor herself, under the expert eye of Rooshad Shroff | A Rana Begum on the wall. A Jeanneret desk for the husband. And a B&B Italia sofa for naps, ideas and conversations. Ten minutes away from her sumptuous Notting Hill home, she set up a creative studio, a workspace with a very different interiors story, yet signature Sonam still
4 min |
September - October 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
LOULOU VAN DAMME
THE INIMITABLE LOULOU VAN DAMME OPENS THE DOORS TO HER MOST BELOVED PROJECT, A HOME SHE LOVINGLY DESIGNED FOR HER SOUL SISTER, AND OWNER OF THE FORMER BUNGALOW EIGHT, AHLUWALIA MAITHILI
3 min |
September - October 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
BLENDING AESTHETICS WITH FUNCTIONALITY
The single largest space devoted to luxury interiors in India, FCML provides a harmonious integration of unique interior home design ideas and versatile living inspiration
3 min |
September - October 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
IF HYGGE WERE A SOFA
THE NEW QUILTON SOFA BY DOSHI LEVIEN FOR HAY IS DELIGHTFUL, VERSATILE AND AN AD FAVOURITE
2 min |
September - October 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
NELLY SETHNA
Nelly Sethna (1932-1992) is a name we’ve all heard of but not enough has been written about the depth of her contribution and talent. So, we at AD jumped at the opportunity offered by Mumbai-based gallery Chatterjee & Lal, as they planned a retrospective of the artist’s three-decade-long career. Through these images of Sethna’s historical tapestries and a deeply insightful essay by Nancy Adajania, we hope to offer a glimpse of the scale and materiality that Sethna’s art embodied. Her philosophy was drawn partly from Scandinavian modernism, courtesy of her Nordic mentors at the Cranbrook Academy, and the Arts and Crafts lineage of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, and it all came together in Sethna’s warps and wefts in the context of India. A six-foot textile mobile sculpture made in wool, wire and glittering Lurex; a three-story wall-hanging in the stairwell of the Ford Foundation in Delhi, ceramic murals for the lobby of Joseph Allen Stein’s Express Towers in Bombay—Nelly Sethna’s excellence is present for us to view, touch and marvel at.
4 min |
September - October 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
CIRCLE OF LIGHT
ARTIST-ARCHITECT VISHAL K. DAR’S RENOVATION OF THE KLOVE GALLERY RESULTS IN A SPACE THAT IS PART ART, PART CANVAS AND A WHOLLY POETIC ODE TO LIGHT
2 min |
September - October 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
DESIGN, WITH A CONSCIENCE
Superior design, contemporary aesthetics, sustainable elements, and an eco-friendly approach to construction blend seamlessly in a lavish residential project designed by Mindspace Architects in Bengaluru. AD offers a glimpse into Svamitva Group’s latest project—Svamitva Terravana—homes for your mind, body and soul
3 min |
September - October 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
EVA CHEN
THE SARTORIAL SENSATION AND INSTAGRAM FAVOURITE UPDATES A CONNECTICUT HOME FOR HER GROWING FAMILY—AND DISCOVERS SHE’S A COUNTRY GIRL AFTER ALL
3 min |
September - October 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
MANSI PODDAR
BRASS DETAILS, MOSAIC FLOORS AND AN OBSIDIAN–BLACK LINE OUTLINING EACH ROOM, MANSI PODDAR’S MUMBAI APARTMENT IS AN EXTENSION OF HER OWN FASHIONABLE MINIMALISM
3 min |
September - October 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
THE PURSUIT OF BEAUTY
BIJOY JAIN CRAFTS TWO PIECES OF FURNITURE IN HIS LATEST COLLABORATION WITH HERMÈS
3 min |
September - October 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
BIJOY JAIN
FIRST COMMISSION ABROAD, THE LANTERNONOMICHI GARDEN HOTEL IN THE HIROSHIMA PREFECTURE OF JAPAN IS A GENTLE COMPOSITION OF SPACE AND EMPTINESS, PIGMENT AND TEXTURE, LIGHT AND SHADE —CRAFTSMANSHIP IS INHERENT IN THIS ARCHITECT’S MÉTIER.
4 min |
July - August 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
CRAFTING SOLITUDE
Cotton House by Inaya Living in Assagao, Goa is a discerning blend of craftsmanship and contemporary living
2 min |
July - August 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
GOLCONDE
PORTFOLIO 2 INDIA’S FIRST MODERNIST BUILDING Golconde in Pondicherry was completed in 1945. It was built as a dormitory for members—ashramites, as they are called—of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. It might be easily overlooked from the street, but walk through the singular discreet wooden door with a lotus engraving on it, and it stands tall as if in silent contemplation. This modernist beauty, the first reinforced-concrete structure in India, predating Chandigarh’s and Ahmedabad’s modern architecture, was designed by American architect Antonin Raymond and later completed by George Nakashima, who also became a member of the ashram. Nakashima’s fine wood furniture is in use throughout the rooms. For our craftsmanship issue, AD invites Pankaj Vir Gupta and Christine Mueller to share a few pages out of their monograph on Golconde. The AD100 architects have authored ‘Golconde: The Introduction of Modernism in India’, an in-depth study of the building, the second edition of which releases this September. In this portfolio, the architects share gorgeous details, archival images and an essay recalling their discovery of this modernist icon.
6 min |
July - August 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
SURYA, A WELLNESS BRAND, UNVEILS ITS FLAGSHIP AYURVEDIC SPA AT THE SANTA MONICA PROPER HOTEL, WITH INTERIORS BY AMERICAN CELEBRITY DESIGNER KELLY WEARSTLER
2 min |
July - August 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
ESCAPE ROUTE
Avās Wellness Living Project, a new community centred around holistic ideas is an alluring invite to head over to dreamy Alibag for a slower, cleaner and better lifestyle
2 min |
July - August 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
DAR ES SALAM
A family’s personal home-turnedboutique hotel on the banks of the Nigeen Lake in Srinagar is a feast of Kashmiri decorative arts
4 min |
July - August 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
VIKRAM GOYAL
A TREASURE TROVE OF ART, ANTIQUES AND HEIRLOOMS. ROOMS PAINTED IN BURGUNDY AND MINT GREEN, LAYERED IN BROCADES AND SILKS, DOTTED WITH FINIALS AND PEDESTALS. THIS CONTEMPORARY HAVELI IN LUTYENS’ DELHI HAS BEEN RESTORED BY VIKRAM GOYAL IN A SUMPTUOUS CELEBRATION OF CRAFTSMANSHIP.
4 min |
July - August 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
GRANDE DAMES OF CRAFT
As the world awakens to craft and its virtues, one cannot begin to comprehend craft from India without linking it to the craft economy.
10+ min |
July - August 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
PRIZED POSSESSIONS
THIS YEAR, THE JSW X AD PRIZE FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFTSMANSHIP GOES TO TWO WINNERS: DEHRADUN-BASED WEAVING STUDIO GANGAMAKI AND SANDEEP SANGARU FOR HIS WORK IN KASHMIR
3 min |
July - August 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
VINITA CHAITANYA
THE RIOT OF COLOUR AND CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT IS THE SIGNATURE STYLE OF CELEBRITY DECORATOR VINITA CHAITANYA MEETS A NEW SPIRITUALITY IN A BENGALURU HOME.
5 min |
July - August 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
DEEPPURA GARH
A TWO–HUNDRED– YEAR–OLD HAVELI IN RAJASTHAN WAS GLORIOUSLY RESTORED BY ITALIAN DESIGNER MARIA GRAZIA BALDAN. WITH THE HELP OF BELGIAN ARCHITECT PHILIPPE DE VILLEGAS, SHE HAS SAVED SPLENDID DEEPPURA GARH FROM RUIN WITH REFINED INTERIORS AND THE PERFECT PATINA
3 min |
May - June 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
TAPED TO THE WALL
A CLEVER HOMAGE TO MAURIZIO CATTELAN IS FOUND IN A TROMPE L’OEIL PAINTING AT A NEW BANDRA RESTAURANT
1 min |
May - June 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
RUDRAPADA ESTATE
THE RUDRAPADA ESTATE IS A REMOTE ORGANIC FARM ACROSS 20 ACRES NEAR THE HILL STATION OF KODAIKANAL. AT ITS HEART IS A CONTEMPORARY TAKE ON A TRADITIONAL PLANTATION HOUSE DESIGNED BY NIELS SCHOENFELDER
4 min |
May - June 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
ORGANIC ORDER
A NEW EXHIBITION OF KHAGESWAR ROUT AT PROJECT 88 IS A SHOWCASE OF THE TACTILITY OF TERRACOTTA
2 min |
May - June 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
NEW VOCATION
WEAVERS AND PRISON INMATES FROM RURAL RAJASTHAN TURN DESIGNERS FOR MANCHAHA, AN ONGOING INITIATIVE
1 min |
May - June 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
ROHIT CHAWLA
THE TREE HOUSE IN THE GOAN VILLAGE OF ASSAGAO IS THE HOLIDAY–HOME–TURNED– SANCTUARY OF PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER ROHIT CHAWLA AND HIS WIFE, SALONI PURI
3 min |
May - June 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
RETAIL 3.0
ICONIC FASHION BOUTIQUE BROWNS REDEFINES THE NOTION OF WHAT A CONCEPT STORE CAN BE WITH ITS NEW SPACE ON BROOK STREET IN MAYFAIR
1 min |
May - June 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
FRESH FACES
In homage to Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures, AD brings together a dream team of image-makers to create a series of portraits of new names from our address book
4 min |
May - June 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
HERE COMES THE SUN
TAKE A SEAT AND BASK IN THE SUNSHINE IN A SERIES OF TROPICAL SCENES DREAMED UP BY STYLIST PRIYANKA SHAH
5 min |
May - June 2021
AD Architectural Digest India
ED TUT TLE 1945-2020
The late architect and man behind the design language of Aman resorts around the world, Tuttle’s own hôtel particulier in Paris is a golden example of his flair with objects, interiors, proportions and what makes a thing of beauty
4 min |