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AD Architectural Digest India
MASTER WEAVER SHAMJI VANKAR TAKES A SLICE OF HIS CULTURE TO XTANT, A HERITAGE TEXTILE FESTIVAL HELD IN MALLORCA THIS SUMMER.
Art is made by a single individual for the enjoyment of another.
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July - August 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
RITU KUMAR HOME'S LATEST TABLEWARE COLLECTION DRAWS FROM IKAT AND CHINTZ.
Ritu Kumar's home collections have always reflected her love for handlooms and Indian art forms. Be it intricate Mughal art or elaborate Kashmiri booti, the table linen, serveware and even glassware borrow from traditional motifs.
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July - August 2024
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SIX DECADES SINCE ITS ORIGIN, BAREFOOT IN COLOMBO REMAINS DEDICATED TO LATE FOUNDER BARBARA SANSONI'S LOVE OF HANDLOOM.
Amid a kaleidoscope of colours in the upholstery section of Barefoot's store in Colombo, the rolls of material stand out for their vibrant variations of green.
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July - August 2024
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THE CUTE NEW VARIANT OF THE ICONIC WISHBONE CHAIR IS MADE FOR CHILDREN AGED THREE AND UP.
Hans J Wegner designed around 500 chairs in his lifetime. While several of them are known as innovative masterpieces, one of his most iconic creations remains the CH24 Wishbone Chair designed in 1949.
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July - August 2024
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DESIGNED BY KUMAR LA NOCE FOR ALTREFORME, BINDOO IS A COLLECTION OF WHIMSICAL MIRRORS THAT TAKE INSPIRATION FROM THE HUMBLE DOT.
Inspired by the Sanskrit word for \"dot\", Bindoo, a trifecta of geometric mirrors by Indo-Italian design practice Kumar La Noce for Italian high-end aluminium furniture company Altreforme-unveiled at Milan Design Week 2024-is an object lesson in infinity.
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July - August 2024
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SINGING IN BRASS
FROM ORNATE IMAGES OF INDIAN MYTHOLOGY TO CHINOISERIE TO ABSTRACT ORGANIC FORMS, THE ENIGMATIC CRAFT OF BRASS REPOUSSÉ COMES TO LIFE AT VIKRAM GOYAL'S ATELIER IN NOIDA.
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July - August 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
MAY/JUNE DISCOVERIES
Reuse, repurpose, restore: Here is our dispatch from the world of design and architecture with a spotlight on sustainability. Danish brand Mater taps Patricia Urquiola to craft a line of sleek furniture from waste material. Bottega Veneta's Matthieu Blazy finds inspiration in a classic Le Corbusier design. Mumbai's 165-yearold Afghan Church gets restored to its original glory. Enjoy this summer issue.
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May - June 2024
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50 YEARS OF MAHENDRA DOSHI
As a child I remember accompanying my parents on their collecting trips. Going to museums, art galleries and furniture warehouses is what we did on Sunday mornings in the 1980s in Bombay. There were no malls and my parents felt guilty leaving us home. We were welcomed into these treasure troves of art and design with equal élan by their humble owners, who were always there on the shop floor. Holiday or not. And that is how one spring morning, I met the doyen of period furniture, Mahendra Doshi. We would spend hours with him in his dusty cavern-like basement, nestled against the Arabian Sea with a view of the entire Queen's Necklace. I remember seeing stars in my father's eyes. He did that when he saw things he liked. My parents may or may not have picked up a piece, but I always took back a story. For amidst those dusty alleys of piled up \"junk\" and heaps of old furniture lay stories of history, homes and heritage. Stories we were regaled with by the gentle giant. He was simply Mahendra bhai to my parents and Mahendra uncle to me.
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May - June 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
The Historian
For this summer issue, we admire the quintessential \"cooling\" jali-one of India's great contributions to global architecture and look at a lesser known but magnificent piece from the extraordinary madrasa of Ghaziuddin Khan from the Mughal era.
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May - June 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
TERRA PAVILION
IS A STARK STRUCTURE OF EXPOSED CONCRETE AND GLASS, BUILT AS A SUSTAINABLE, RESTFUL SANCTUARY IN A WINDING FORESTED EXPANSE OUTSIDE OF AHMEDABAD, DESIGNED BY KHUSH NU PANTHAKI HOOF AND SÖNKE HOOF OF STUDIO SANGATH.
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May - June 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
PALINDA KANNANGARA'S
FIRST RESIDENTIAL PROJECT IN INDIA IS A HOME IN BENGALURU DESIGNED WITH HIS SIGNATURE
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May - June 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
SAMRAKSHAN INDIA
Architect Ajith Andagere often quotes Mexican poet Octavio Paz: \"To be truly modern, we must first reconcile ourselves with our traditions.\"That central thought is the crux of Andagere's mission. In 2017, he set up Samrakshan India-a not-for-profit focused on documenting India's vernacular architecture, considering the inherent wisdom in vernacular typologies and making them relevant to our modern lives. \"Documentation, conservation, adaptive reuse, and education\"-that's the role that this architect has taken on. AD visits Andagere's studio on the outskirts of Bengaluru as well Shurpali HouseSamrakshan India's first restoration project-a 150-year-old ancestral home close to the Krishna River, in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, a nine-hour drive from his studio. Andagere took it on, along with his team of architects and craftsmen, and today what we see, post-restoration, is someone's ancestral family home given a new life.
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May - June 2024
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Condé Nast Traveller THE LAST WORD IN TRAVEL
In the shadow of the historic Vijayanagara empire, HAMPI ART LABS is a new arts programme brought to life by the JS W Foundation. Designed by A D 100 firm SP+a, it takes design inspiration from the ruins and landscape of Hampi, situated 35 kilometres away. An exhibition centre along with residences for artists, creative studios devoted to various art forms like printmaking and ceramics, a quiet yet communal space for artists to create and explore, Hampi Art Labs is a sanctuary as well as a pivotal step forward for the growing community of art in India. A patron with all her heart in it, Sangita Jindal, Foundation, summarizes her intent: chairperson, JS W had been to Hampi 31 years ago and fell in love with it then. Ever since I have wanted to do something here. And my other lifelong love is art. So I thought, why not bring the two together contribution This is my ongoing to the sea of artistic talent in our country.\"
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May - June 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
WHEN WAS MODERNISM?
WITH A TITLE REFERENCING A BOOK BY HISTORIAN HOME IN GEETA KAPUR, THIS MODERNIST AHMEDABAD, BUILT IN THE 1 9 7 0 S AND RESTORED RECENTLY BY AD 1 0 0 ARCHITECT KUNAL SHAH IS A REMINDER OF A CLASSIC DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE THAT AN ENTIRE IN A GENERATION OF INDIANS GREW UP MODERNISM THAT IS TIMELESS, THAT WE ADAPTED TO SUIT OUR CULTURE, CLIMATE, MATERIALS AND OUR DOMESTIC RITUALS. THIS IS FOUZDAR, A GRANDFATHER'S HOME.
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May - June 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
The Curator
AD’s Art issue would be incomplete without an essay on Peggy Guggenheim, the philanthropist and visionary who was collecting through the war years, and whose home-turned-museum in Venice has one of the most important holdings of modern art in the world.
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January - February 2024
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Raw Mango Agama
TEXTILES HAVE BEEN INTEGRAL TO THE STORYTELLING AT AD IN PRINT. IN A NATURAL STEP AHEAD, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, THE AD DESIGN SHOW THIS YEAR OPENED WITH A GARMENT PRESENTATION. THE MOOD, THE MUSIC, THE PEOPLE, THE TEXTILES EVERYTHING WAS MAGIC.
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January - February 2024
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JAIVEER JOHAL'S CHENNAI HOME IS
FLANKED BY THE ADYAR RIVER ON ONE SIDE AND THE BAY OF BENGAL ΟΝ THE OTHER, AND ANCHORED IN A SEA OF ART AMIDST WHICH HE LIVES IN THIS BOLDLY DESIGNED ONEBEDROOM APARTMENT
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January - February 2024
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IN A CHARMING ART DECO BUILDING IN MUMBAI'S HERITAGE PRECINCT, WITH THE BUSTLE OF OVAL MAIDAN ACROSS THE ROAD, COLLECTOR DARA MEHTA LIVES AMONG A STAGGERING COLLECTION OF ART IN A STARKLY MINIMAL HOME THAT IS MEDITATIVE AND RESTRAINED IN ITS INTERIORS DESIGNED BY NETERWALA AIBARA INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ALL FOR THE ART TO SHINE THROUGH.
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January - February 2024
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WELCOME TO THE AMINS BARODA HOME
THE CITY OF BARODA-NOW CALLED VADODARA IS INTRICATELY LINKED TO THE HISTORY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN INDIA. REFLECTING THIS JOURNEY IS MALIKA AND CHIRAYU AMIN'S ANCESTRAL HOME AND THEIR INCREDIBLE COLLECTION OF ART.
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January - February 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
60 Years of Chemould
In telling the story of Gallery Chemould, Jerry Pinto writes a short history of art in the city
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January - February 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
Bijoy Jain
AT FONDATION CARTIER
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January - February 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
Treasure Hunt at Alessi
Cristina Kiran Piotti visits the Alessi Museum in Omegna, Italy, and discovers India-inspired creations in the archive of an iconic Italian design house.
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January - February 2024
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What's New at the Art Fair
Design gets a special space at this year’s India Art Fair, with the iconic Carpenters Workshop Gallery curating a section along with Ashiesh Shah.
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January - February 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
The Life and Work of KG Subramanyan
In the year of the artist's birth centenary, Mortimer Chatterjee remembers this boundless creative genius across the histories of art, craft and design.
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January - February 2024
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A Haven Called Kaash
Bengaluru-based studio-cumresidency Kaash is quietly working in the craft collectibles market with collaboration and accessibility at its core
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January - February 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
The Secret Life of the Mind
Shweta Shiware discovers the brilliance of sculptor Sakshi Gupta's \"grotesque and seductive\" new metalworks.
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January - February 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
The Indian Memory
Italian brand Porro’s new showroom in Milan displays ceramic pieces by the inimitable Ettore Sottsass, inspired by his whirlwind love affair with India in the 1970s.
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January - February 2024
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A Self Portrait
Anoushka Mirchandani's debut at Mumbai's Galerie Isa grapples with questions of womanhood and diasporic identity.
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January - February 2024
AD Architectural Digest India
Timeless Noguchi
Vitra's reissue of Isamu Noguchi's iconic 1957 Prismatic tables is testament to this late JapaneseAmerican designer's eternal brilliance.
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January - February 2024
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Meet Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai
Pahadi paintings, poetry of Lal Ded, architecture and the of Afghanistanthe emerging artist draws from diverse influences but sews it all in a singular, artistic language of her own.
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