Architecture
AD Architectural Digest India
ICONIC FASHION DESIGNER RITU BERI'S NEW EXPERIENTIAL STORE IN GOA IS A NOD TO LOCAL ARCHITECTURAL ETHOS.
When you cross the threshold with the lion finials and enter the 2,465-square-metre property that's home to Escape, designer Ritu Beri's new retail space in Goa, you unexpectedly end up on top of a staircase. At the end of this sloping laterite stairway lined with trees, fountains and statuettes, you are greeted by an imposing 35-foot Portuguese-style façade in vibrant red and white. If your first response is awe and wonder, Beri believes her mission has been accomplished. “The reception, which looks down at the expanse of the property, was designed to be an experience, where guests feel an immediate sense of wonder, to enter without fully knowing what they were stepping into.”
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March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
WITH HIS NEW COLLECTION, EESHAAN KASHYAP CONTINUES TO PUSH MATERIAL, CRAFT AND DESIGN INTO NEW SCULPTURAL EXPRESSIONS OF CREATIVITY.
Eeshaan Kashyap has always been drawn to transformation—not just in form but in experience.
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March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
NILAYA ANTHOLOGY, A CULMINATION OF ASIAN PAINTS' LONG-TERM VISION, BRINGS TOGETHER THE BEST OF INDIAN AND GLOBAL LUXURY AND COLLECTIBLE DESIGN.
The word nilaya is Sanskrit for “dwelling”, and an anthology is a selection of creative works or stories. Simple enough.
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March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
RAW MANGO MAKES A NEW HOME IN AN INDUSTRIAL BUILDING IN GURUGRAM, IN ITS CLASSIC STYLE OF ART, ANTIQUES AND EVEN A MEZZANINE LIBRARY.
It feels like a labyrinth,” my guide jokes as we move through a late-’90s industrial building in Gurugram. In the basement, a photoshoot is underway. Upstairs, brass artefacts line meeting rooms, embroiderers hunch over their frames, and pattern testers rattle away at their machines.
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March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
A CARTIER EXHIBITION AT THE V&A IN LONDON UNPACKS A CENTURY OF THE MAISON'S JEWELLERY, POWER AND CULTURAL INFLUENCE.
What do Rihanna, the Maharaja of Patiala, King Charles, and Snow White have in common?
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March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
FOR FINER DINING, HERMÈS EN CONTREPOINT IS THE MAISON'S LATEST PORCELAIN SERVICE, WITH ART BY NIGEL PEAKE.
What does music have to do with a pretty 33-piece kaolin white porcelain table service? Everything, as per Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry, artistic directors of Hermès Maison. Under their direction, Irish artist Nigel Peake created the art for the new collection of plates, trays, tart platters, soup spoons, soy bowls and so much more.
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March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
OFF THE TABLE AND ON TO THE WALL INSPIRED BY THE UBIQUITOUS STEEL THALI, SOFT-GEOMETRY'S ARTWORK FINDS A SPOT IN SFMOMA.
The steel thali is a cultural marker and an expression of Indian identity. Interestingly, it has journeyed across geographies and, now, stands as a symbolic treasure inside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where it's been acquired for the Architecture + Design Permanent Collection.
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March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
KOTTAN CHECKERBOARD PATTERNS IN THE HAPPIEST OF COLOURS-WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT KASERA, ON DISPLAY AT KAASH IN BENGALURU.
It was over a cup of coffee that architect-designer David Joe Thomas and Bengaluru-based arts residency Kaash’s Manju Sara Rajan settled on kottan, the Chettinad tape basket weave, as the basis of a furniture collection.
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March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
KARA IN FORT KOCHI STRIKES A DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN HISTORY, TOURISM AND ITS AUTHENTIC MALAYALEE ROOTS.
Down the road from where the explorer Vasco da Gama reportedly lived in Fort Kochi, two alluring white structures linked by a Bauhausian grey iron bridge house Kara, a quaint boutique hotel that is among the newest additions to the local art scene.
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March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
SUCHI REDDY JOINS HANDS WITH PALAK SHAH OF EKAYA BANARAS TO CREATE NINE.5: SCULPTURAL FURNITURE PIECES THAT PAY HOMAGE TO THE SARI.
A traditional sari has nine and a half yards of fabric,\" says New York-based architect Suchi Reddy. In homage to that figure, she and Palak Shah—a fourth-generation textile manufacturer and cofounder of the fashion label Ekaya Banaras—have unveiled nine and a half pieces of furniture, with a sculptural side table as the fractional.
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March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AS NEW DELHI'S GALLERY ESPACE MARKS ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY, AD LOOKS AT GALLERIST RENU MODI'S JOURNEY IN ART.
The New Delhi-based Gallery Espace, founded by Renu Modi in 1989, recently marked its 35th anniversary with two special exhibitions.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ROCHELLE PINTO, EDITOR OF VOGUE INDIA, WRITES ABOUT FORCES OF FASHION, WHICH PUT 39 UNIQUE WORKS UNDER ONE ROOF, PIECING TOGETHER A SHORT HISTORY OF FASHION IN INDIA.
If you want to step into the mind of Cristóbal Balenciaga, the game-changing Spanish couturier who died over 50 years ago, all you have to do is beg, bribe or charm your way into 10 Avenue George V in Paris.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AS INVISIBLE COLLECTION COMES TO INDIA, FOUNDERS ISABELLE DUBERNMALLEVAYS AND LILY FROEHLICHER SHARE THEIR SERENDIPITOUS JOURNEY TO THE COUNTRY.
Isabelle Dubern-Mallevays and Lily Froehlicher first found India at their doorstep when Sonam Kapoor Ahuja borrowed a few pieces from their collection for an AD India cover story in 2021.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ANONYMOUS ARTIST PRINCESS PEA SHOWCASES A COLLECTION OF NINE NEW PRINTS AT THE SOHO HOUSE LOUNGE AT ART MUMBAI.
In Princess Pea's new collection of works, poetry, craft and the divine femininity coalesce with grace.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ARTISTS RITU AND SURYA SINGH'S WONDERLAND OF A HOMESTUDIO IN THE PINK CITY URGES YOU TO LOOK AT THE BEAUTY AND NARRATIVE OF WASTE.
Husband-wife artist duo Ritu and Surya Singh, better known as Wolf, live at \"The Farm\", a unique 20-acre madhouse of wonders in the heart of Jaipur.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
KENGO KUMA TALKS TO AD ABOUT HIS DESIGN ADDITIONS AS THE CENTRO DE ARTE MODERNA GULBENKIAN IN LISBON OPENS ITS DOORS AGAIN.
Everyone who has lived in Lisbon likely has a fond memory of the Gulbenkian complex.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
FROM HIS REVERENCE FOR GANDHI TO HIS LOVE OF DANCE, A BOOK BY DAG OFFERS NEW WAYS TO KNOW MF HUSAIN.
If there was ever an Indian artist who earned immense fame and yet remained unknowable, it is MF Husain.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
WHAT WOULD BAWA DO? WONDERS APARNA RAO, COFOUNDER OF PHANTOM HANDS, AS SHE PRODUCES REISSUES OF GEOFFREY BAWA'S HIGHLY CONTEXTUAL FURNITURE.
In mid-December last year, in the freshly restored Kannangara House designed by Geoffrey Bawa in 1959, an exhibition based on the late Sri Lankan master's furniture designs opened.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
BANGLADESHI ARTIST AYESHA SULTANA'S RECENT DUBAI EXHIBITION EXPLORED THE DUAL NATURE OF STRENGTH AND FRAGILITY.
Born in Bangladesh in 1984, the US-based Ayesha Sultana explores notions of form, space and materiality.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
WE CATCH UP WITH TARIK CURRIMBHOY AT HIS STUDIO IN NEW YORK, AFTER HIS FIRST SOLO SHOW IN INDIA.
Tarik Currimbhoy's sculptures have a pure, meditative quality. A viewer can stand mesmerized for hours watching the elegant, geometric shapes move back and forth.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
THE FIRST SHOW OF THE NEWLY OPENED JAIPUR CENTRE FOR ART INCLUDES ANISH KAPOOR, DAYANITA SINGH, LN TALLUR, HIROSHI SUGIMOTO, AND MORE.
The Jaipur Centre for Art (JCA) came to life as a way to blend Jaipur's incredible history with contemporary art, explains Sawai Padmanabh Singh, the rather dashing scion of the erstwhile royal family of Jaipur.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AD VISITS DEVI SEETHARAM AT HER BENGALURU STUDIO, AND DISCUSSES GENDER, PUBLIC SPACES, AND HER METICULOUS PAINTING TECHNIQUE.
Living a peripatetic life that took her to China, South Africa, Switzerland, Australia and more, Devi Seetharam developed an eye for gender relationships and sociocultural spaces.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
"MOMENTS OF REFLECTION", A SHOW AT MUMBAI'S AKARA MODERN HIGHLIGHTED MASTER ARCHITECT RAJ REWAL'S EARLY ARTISTIC PRACTICE.
Ever wonder what it is like for a nonagenarian to revisit their early creations after a gap of decades?
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
THREE DECADES SINCE HE LEFT PATNA, SUBODH GUPTA IS HOMEWARD BOUND WITH "THE WAY HOME", A SOLO SHOW OF HIS SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS AT THE BIHAR MUSEUM.
At 60, artist Subodh Gupta is finally homeward-bound after spending three decades on the road, buzzing around the world carrying the mundane everydays in his bags to transform them into ambitious artistic spectacles.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
The Historian - SAM DALRYMPLE
For our annual art issue, we visit a Jain temple in Multan, which features a mix of Mughal and Sikh styles and some of the finest miniature paintings in all of Punjab.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
The AD X JSW Prize for Contemporary Craftsmanship
\"We need to empower the maker, artisans and artists, making their creative force better and more accessible.\" - Rajeev Sethi
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
Masters of Neon
Assemblage n.51 by the Back Studio, the central installation at the AD Design Show 2024, is an ode to the beauty of hardware—produced by Splendour Living.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
FRANCIS KÉRÉ
FRANCIS KÉRÉ, THE PRITZKER PRIZE-WINNING BURKINABÉ-GERMAN ARCHITECT JOINS HANDS WITH A HOST OF INTERNATIONAL TALENT TO CREATE A SPACE OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THE SWISS SKI TOWN OF GSTAAD.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
RAJIV SAINI
RAJIV SAINI, AN ARCHITECT KNOWN FOR HIS FINE CURATORIAL EYE, CRAFTS THIS HOME OF LEGACY ART COLLECTORS IN DELHI, FINDING THE PERFECT SPOT FOR A BHARTI KHER OR NILIMA SHEIKH, CHOREOGRAPHING CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN A MRINALINI MUKHERJEE AND MANJIT BAWA, AND MAKING DESIGN AN EVOLVED BACKDROP TO ART.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
THE QUIET BRILLIANCE OF SAMIRA RATHOD
IT'S WHERE HER ART AND ARCHITECTURAL STYLES COEXIST. IT'S WHERE THE MUNDANE AND PROFOUND COME TOGETHER. IN HER OWN HOME, THIS AD 100 DESIGNER'S DISTILLED AESTHETIC TAKES FORM MOST NATURALLY.
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