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Architecture + Design

Architecture + Design

ALUDECOR MASON MARK: INDIA'S FIRST CONCRETE-FINISH ALUMINIUM COMPOSITE PANEL

This innovative product seamlessly blends the durability of aluminium with the aesthetic appeal of concrete, offering a unique solution for architects, designers, and builders

1 min  |

July 2025
Architecture + Design

Architecture + Design

CHARU KOKATE: DESIGNING BETWEEN WORLDS

Urban architecture across Asia is going through a massive shift courtesy of Senior Partner at Safdie Architects Charu Kokate. Through iconic projects like Marina Bay Sands and Jewel Changi Airport, she weaves cultural fluency, sustainability, and human-centric design into vibrant, inclusive spaces that redefine how we connect with our cities

10 min  |

July 2025
Architecture + Design

Architecture + Design

The Stallions of Indian Design

How Hardesh and Monica Chawla transformed their vision of thoughtful luxury into a 25-year legacy, championing India's craft techniques while creating spaces that elevate everyday living. From their in-house manufacturing to their son Hridik's global perspective, Essentia Environments proves that 'Made in India' is the future of timeless design

10+ min  |

July 2025
Architecture + Design

Architecture + Design

HOUSE BY THE LAKE

With its low-slung roofs, shaded verandahs, open baths, and a temple tree at its heart, this tropical modernist weekend home by 23DDS-with landscaping by Studio Gaea-blurs the line between house and horizon.

3 min  |

July 2025
Architecture + Design

Architecture + Design

THE CHOCOLATE HOUSE

Studio Patternmaker Turns a 50-Year-Old Home into a Cocoa Retreat

4 min  |

July 2025
Architecture + Design

Architecture + Design

A+ IN TIMELESS FORM

Charged Voids' PLUS transforms a mixed-use pharmaceutical hub into a sculptural icon. Its bold brick cross form marries retail dynamism, logistic efficiency, and serene offices, redefining industrial architecture with timeless craft

2 min  |

July 2025
Architecture + Design

Architecture + Design

THE HOME UNSAID

In the middle of Mumbai, a small apartment dials down the noise and gets the details spot on

3 min  |

July 2025
Architecture + Design

Architecture + Design

TWIN SOULS, SINGLE VISION

Surbhi Singhal and Deepanshu Arneja craft a 15,700 sq ft residence that questions the conventional relationship between the built and natural environments, creating two different yet compatible homes wrapped in a jungle plantation embrace

3 min  |

July 2025
Architect and Interiors India

Architect and Interiors India

QUIET MONUMENTALITY

Henge House is an Urban Home designed to lean into Bengaluru's Garden City nostalgia.

4 min  |

July 2025
Architect and Interiors India

Architect and Interiors India

HARDWARE EVOLUTION

Architectural hardware is no longer just functional — it’s a critical design element shaping durability, aesthetics, and user experience in modern spaces.

5 min  |

July 2025
Architect and Interiors India

Architect and Interiors India

GREEN WALLS

Vertical gardens are living systems that integrate seamlessly with architecture, climate, and lifestyle.

4 min  |

July 2025
Architect and Interiors India

Architect and Interiors India

THE UNSTOPPABLES

iGen 2025 celebrated India's top 50 under 40 design innovators, uniting visionary architects and designers in a powerful showcase of glocal creativity and emerging leadership.

2 min  |

July 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

NOSTALGIA AND CRAFT COME TOGETHER IN SHED'S NEWEST PIECE: A CARROM BOARD MADE WITH MARBLE INLAY AND MINIATURE-PAINTING-STYLE DRAWINGS.

Surat-based designer Priyanka Shah has built her practice creating whimsical one-off pieces through her studio Shed.

1 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

BRAZILIAN BRAND ETEL REISSUES OSCAR NIEMEYER'S ICONIC CHAISE, BRINGING BACK AN IMPORTANT CHAPTER OF DESIGN HISTORY.

Etel has long been recognised for preserving pieces and typologies created by leading designers and artists, with collections comprising a hundred years of Brazilian furniture history.

1 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

AHMEDABADBASED ANDBLACK DESIGN STUDIO'S LOOP SERIES EXPLORES THE IDEA OF INFINITY THROUGH FORM.

If there is a special talent of Andblack Design Studio, it is to imagine a building and a bulb in the same breath.

1 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

CLOTHING BRAND ROUKA'S NEW STORE IN KOCHI WEAVES FOUNDER-DESIGNER SREEJITH JEEVAN'S MEMORIES WITH A KERALA MODERN AESTHETIC.

As the first showers of monsoon wash over Kochi, fashion label Rouka's new flagship store feels like a cool, dimly lit sanctuary.

2 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

LA PELOTA, MILAN

To visit once is delightful. But to visit every year and witness the journey of a creative house is much more intimate.

4 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

JAIPUR-BASED ATELIER FROZEN MUSIC LENDS ITS ARTISTIC EXPERTISE TO A TINO ZERVUDACHI PROJECT IN DELHI.

Known for his global portfolio of rarefied interiors—from yachts and country estates to Parisian townhouses—British interior designer Tino Zervudachi has long been revered for marrying classical proportion with quiet daring.

1 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

ISHRAT SAHGAL, OF RUGMAKER MISHCAT CO, WELCOMES US INTO HER LONDON HOME, A DELIGHTFUL PLAY OF TEXTURE, MEMORY AND OBJECTS OF AFFECTION.

The first thing you notice in Ishrat Sahgal’s London home isn’t a chandelier or a statement-making art piece, but harmony and continuity.

3 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

HOUSE OF KANDADU

“Almost 25 years ago, along the Coromandel Coast, a local chief showed me—nestled along a quiet path lined with hundred-year- old trees—an incredible house.”

4 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

HAND-EMBROIDERED 3D APPLIQUÉ ADORNS STANLEY LIFESTYLES' LATEST SOFA.

Bengaluru-based furniture maker Stanley Lifestyles' journey began in 1999 with a straightforward vision—to make in India.

1 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

IN A QUIET MAYFAIR SALON, SANTI JEWELS BY KRISHNA CHOUDHARY CONJURES CONTEMPORARY HEIRLOOMS FROM CENTURIES-OLD STONES.

CONJURES CONTEMPORARY HEIRLOOMS FROM CENTURIES-OLD STONES.

2 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

VINTAGE PAISLEYS, FLORALS AND JACQUARDS COME ALIVE IN ETRO HOME INTERIORS' NEW COLLECTION.

What if your home could read like a poem—each silhouette a verse, each texture a memory, each pattern a metaphor? Etro Home Interiors' new line of furniture, Living Lore, evokes precisely that feeling: space as a story, written not in words but in wood and marble, brass and velvet.

1 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

ORPROJECT'S 3D-PRINTED WOOD SCULPTURE AT THE VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE BRINGS TOGETHER NATURE, CRAFTSMANSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY.

Carlo Ratti, the Italian architect and engineer, and curator of Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.—the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Architecture Biennale—believes that it is time to reclaim architecture's timeless connection with nature.

1 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

WITH A NEW FLAGSHIP STORE IN NEW DELHI, FRENCH CRYSTAL HOUSE BACCARAT REKINDLES ITS ENDURING RELATIONSHIP WITH INDIA.

When a chandelier travels across centuries and continents to illuminate a new space, it carries more than just light—it brings forth memory, history and generational craftsmanship.

1 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

STUDIO RAW MATERIAL'S RECENT WORK REFLECTS THE RHYTHMS OF THE FAMED MARBLE QUARRIES OF MAKRANA IN RAJASTHAN.

Studio Raw Material transforms place into story and story into its lyrical fragments.

2 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

INSPIRED BY HER TRAVELS TO INDIA, BRITISH DESIGNER NINA CAMPBELL PARTNERS WITH FIRED EARTH TO CRAFT A PAINTERLY TILE COLLECTION.

Award-winning interior designer Nina Campbell has an enduring love for India, which has inspired many visits to the country over the past 20 years.

1 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

DESIGNER ELAD YIFRACH OPENS L'OBJET IN NEW DELHI, BRINGING CLASSIC CRAFTSMANSHIP AND ARTIST COLLABORATIONS TO INDIA.

The first thing that strikes the eye is a crocodile. Gilded in gold, studded with stones, Haas Pedro (yes, it has a name!) sits on the front shelf at L'objet's newest outpost in New Delhi.

2 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

FROM PINCHED KANTHA TO WOVEN SHIBORI, HERITAGE TEXTILES GET A FRESH SPIN AT DARSHAN SHAH'S WEAVERS STUDIO IN KOLKATA.

Kantha, the centuries-old Bengali embroidery tradition, is a deceptive craft—simple running stitches capable of conjuring stories of people, nature and entire communities on cloth.

1 min  |

July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India

AD Architectural Digest India

The Historian

For our craftsmanship issue, we visit the Dashavatara Temple in Deogarh. Dating back to the 6th century, built at the height of the Gupta Empire, its stone sculptures mark an important moment when carving entered its mature classical form in India.

2 min  |

July - August 2025