Architecture
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
BIHAR MUSEUM
Fumihiko Maki once said his goal was not to make his buildings beautiful-but to delight their users; to get people, and ideas, circulating through a space; to start conversations and inspire thoughts.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
THE URMILA KAILASH BLACK BOX
In a chance meeting on a flight in the early 1980s, Urmila Kanoria and BV Doshi got talking.
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January - February 2025
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Photo Lies by Dayanita Singh
Somak Ghoshal investigates the architectural montages of the celebrated photographer and provokes us to rethink our \"ways of seeing\".
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January - February 2025
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FIVE SOUTH ASIAN ARTISTS IN LONDON
AD visits young trailblazing artists from South Asia and its diaspora in their London studios to discover their practices and unique interpretations of a shared history.
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January - February 2025
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AS THE MET IN NEW YORK UNDERTAKES A SLATE OF RENOVATIONS, WE MEET THE FOUR ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS LEADING THE CHANGE.
For a universal museum to fulfil its mandate, it needs to grow,” says Max Hollein, director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, reflecting on the realities of evolving collections and shifting curatorial approaches.
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January - February 2025
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BANYAN TREE VEYA, IN MEXICO'S VALLE DE GUADALUPE, IS A NEW WELLNESS RESORT THAT LOOKS TO THE LAND.
A two-hour drive south from San Diego, the Mexican wine region of Valle de Guadalupe-dotted with fertile vineyards and family farms-has remained mostly under the radar, even to food-obsessed Americans.
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November - December 2024
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DESIGNED IN 1988 BY RENOWNED LANDSCAPIST MADE WIJAYA, THE GROUNDS AT AMANDARI IN UBUD, BALI, FOREGO MANICURED LAWNS FOR AN ABUNDANT NATIVE PARADISE.
Coconut palms and banyan trees in sizzling jungle greens, cascades of bougainvillea and the scent of frangipani in the air—a tropical explosion of foliage that would have led Monet to abandon Giverny.
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November - December 2024
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BANGALORE CLUB'S MAIN LAWNS, WITH A MAGNIFICENT RAIN TREE, GET A NEW UMBRELLA BAR AND COLONNADE BY AD100 ARCHITECTS SANDEEP KHOSLA AND AMARESH ANAND.
Time appears to come to a standstill when one enters the Bangalore Club.
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November - December 2024
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FROM HER STUDIO IN LLOYD WRIGHT'S 1927 HOME, DESIGNER VICKI VON HOLZHAUSEN IS REFINING THE SCIENCE OF HIGHPERFORMANCE, PLANT-BASED MATERIALS.
It seems not only fitting but poetic that Los Angeles-based designer and eco-preneur Vicki von Holzhausen chose architect Lloyd Wright's own 1927 studio and residence as the symbolic headquarters of her namesake company, von Holzhausen, a pioneer in the development of high-performance plantbased materials.
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November - December 2024
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IN THE LADAKHI HAMLET OF TURTUK, A KITCHEN GARDEN SUPPLIES FRESH PRODUCE TO THE BALTI KITCHEN OF BOUTIQUE HOTEL VIRSA.
To get to the most exquisite yet humble meal of your life, you'll have to take a six-hour drive from Leh and reach Turtuk, one of the only four Balti villages that fall on the Indian side of the border.
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November - December 2024
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MAKAIBARI'S NEW EXPERIENTIAL STORE IN KOLKATA IS DESIGNED TO EVOKE A TEA PLANTER'S BUNGALOW.
Smell the tea, feel the carpets, enjoy the space”—such is the invitation from Rudra Chatterjee, chairman of Obeetee and managing director of Luxmi Tea Group, at the launch of fine tea brand Makaibari’s experiential store in October, at the Taj Bengal in Kolkata.
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November - December 2024
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ARTS OF HINDOSTAN PIECES TOGETHER A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MUGHAL FLOWER-FROM ITS ORIGIN IN ATELIERS IN MEDIEVAL INDIA TO ITS UBIQUITY ACROSS TIME.
The Mughal emperor Jahangir was famously enraptured by the beauty of flowering plants that he saw on his visit to Kashmir in the spring of 1620.
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November - December 2024
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A FURNITURE-ARTWORK PAIRING COMES TOGETHER AS PAOLA LENTI'S CAMPANA BROTHERSDESIGNED BENCH IS REIMAGINED TO MATCH ARTIST HUGO YOSHIKAWA'S PLAYFUL STYLE.
Vegetation has been the central subject matter of many Hugo Yoshikawa artworks for the past few years.
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November - December 2024
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FROM SCULPTURES TO JEWELLERY, ARTIST LYNDA BENGLIS'S DESIGNS FOR LOEWE FEATURED IN THE BANCA MARCH GARDEN IN MADRID EARLIER THIS YEAR.
This spring, when the gates of the private Banca March Garden in Madrid's Salamanca neighbourhood opened to the public, visitors could experience four monumental fountains, emerging from the ground and soaring towards the sky.
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November - December 2024
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FERNS AND FLOWERS BLOOM ON TOD'S BAGS AND SHOES, A SPECIAL LINE DESIGNED BY RAHUL MISHRA― NATURE BEING HIS CONSTANT MUSE.
India was once called “sone ki chidiya” (golden bird) for its abundance of resources, wealth and prosperity.
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November - December 2024
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HARAGO USES ITS NEW HOME COLLECTION TO SET A TABLE FOR AD IN A JAIPUR GARDEN.
The garden plays an important character in Jaipur fashion brand Harago’s rendition of home textiles. Sunflowers in bloom dot the embroidered running stitch on napkins, while cross-stitches crisscross throughout the collection.
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November - December 2024
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IN HIS NEW BOOK, BOTANIST S NATESH TELLS THE STORIES OF 75 MAJESTIC TREES, DRAWING FROM THEIR HISTORY, MYTHOLOGY, SCIENCE AND CULTURE, WITH MOODY ILLUSTRATIONS BY SAGAR BHOWMICK.
The dictionary defi nes the word icon as “something that is a well-known example of its type, or is widely venerated or admired”.
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