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Blurring The Lives
Co-founders of soft-geometry, furniture designers Utharaa Zacharias and Palaash Chaudhary are working towards a gentle blend of handmade techniques with modern manufacturing processes
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Indian Architect & Builder
Shaw Contract Strives For Design Excellence In Everything They Do
Shaw Contract, a design leader in commercial flooring solutions and surfaces for the hospitality industry, is pleased to introduce Forum, a collection designed for today’s rapidly evolving hospitality-centric environments.
2 min |
August 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Jaquar Group Launches The Arc Collection By Frederico Meroni
Inspired by the classic designs of Roman architectur
2 min |
August 2019
VOGUE India
Concrete Values
London designers Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien’s Barbican apartment brings Brutalist architecture to life. Nonie Niesewand sneaks a first look
5 min |
August 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
The House As Museum Of Memories
The Memory Box, Baroda, Gujarat
4 min |
August 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
The Architect's Personal Playground
The Drift House on Little Much Farm, Maharashtra
4 min |
August 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
The Beauty Of Unexpected Forms
Attic Lab, Malappuram, Kerala
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August 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
A Canvas For Recounting Memories While Making New Ones
Free Flow Junction Bar, Hyderabad, Telangana
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August 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
A Box Of Mystique
Seams Pret and Couture, Mumbai, Maharashtra
3 min |
August 2019
India Today
Setting The Mood
A set designer talks about the heartbreaks that come with dismantling what she creates—homes, worlds, lives.
3 min |
August 12, 2019
Livingetc India
Michael Anastassiades
The renowned lighting designer on the creative inspiration behind his products and why it pays to experiment
3 min |
August 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Fatalism Of Architecture Or Architecture Of Fatalism?
The following essay critically reflects on the morphogenesis of architecture in the South Asian territories while debating and positioning on the role of the architect in shaping our built environment. It builds its premise on readings such as Correa’s ‘Change and Continuity’, Raj Rewal and Romila Thapar’s ‘Tradition and Change’, Yatin Pandya’s ‘Contemporary Indian Architecture’ and ‘Courtyard houses of India’ etc.
10+ min |
January 2019
Arts Illustrated
The Lost Detail
A village in Odisha, a narrow lane in Srinagar, and the Jal Mahal in Jaipur remind us, in vivid detail, the painstaking slowness of creation and the rich rewards it begets.
5 min |
June - July 2019
Arts Illustrated
Weaving Histories
The Kashmiri carpet-weaving tradition, introduced to the region around 400 years ago by India’s Mughal rulers, is filled with multiple narrative threads, each bringing its own flavour to a story that continues to be made
5 min |
June - July 2019
Arts Illustrated
On Shimmering Air
Artist Sumakshi Singh shares her thoughts about the criss-crossing rivers of time and memory and why the poetry inherent in the act of embroidery is perhaps one way of navigating this space of unknowability
7 min |
June - July 2019
Arts Illustrated
Shadow Lines: Experiments With Light, Line And Liminality
Abstract art, or rather ‘non-representational’ art, has been of interest for visual artists for several decades.
2 min |
June - July 2019
Arts Illustrated
An Immersive Experience
Self-taught artist and author, Manish Pushkale lives in his South Delhi home with his studio in the basement of the building. The façade faces the Chor Minar (Tower of Thieves), a 13th century minaret built under the rule of Alauddin Khilji. The backyard of the house shares a wall with a temple. A trustee of the Raza Foundation, Pushkale literally and metaphorically lives between history and religion. We talk to him about his love for the arts and philosophy.
5 min |
June - July 2019
Arts Illustrated
Amar Kanwar: The Lightning Testimonies And The Sovereign Forest
It starts with a single-channel video, 42 minutes long, that shows the impressive landscapes of Odisha. They are images captured with a poetic sensibility and intimate precision that allow viewers to explore the beauty of these landscapes while simultaneously encouraging reflection: a fisherman casts his net at dusk to the sound of birds and insects; a snaking estuary as it flows out to sea; and the interplay of the different greens of blades of grass and rice.
2 min |
June - July 2019
Arts Illustrated
A Single Shade Of Equal
The Aravani Art Project is more than just transgender women painting murals on walls – it is a deeply woven dialogue of equality and experience, bringing a much-needed, warmer, inclusive perspective to sexuality and belonging
5 min |
June - July 2019
L'Officiel India
Don't Fit In, Stand Out
Jasjyot Singh Hans is showing mirror to the society through his illustrations. Images without conventional distortion is what it shows.
3 min |
June - July 2019
Arts Illustrated
The Product Purist
Unravelling the numerous stories behind award-winning designer Suket Dhir and his most recent textile adventure – digital prints on ikat – that tell some interesting hybrid stories of their own.
5 min |
June - July 2019
Arts Illustrated
Real And Ethereal
‘My works do not stop at the visual level and every viewer becomes a serious thinker. He creates his own story according to his perceptions and questions the society in his own way.’ Krishna Setty
2 min |
June - July 2019
Arts Illustrated
Pieta By Cesare Lucchini
Rosenfeld Porcini is located in a quiet by-lane just off the busy Oxford Street in Central London.
2 min |
June - July 2019
Arts Illustrated
Fiona Tan: Shadow Archive
In the late 19th century, two young Belgian jurists – Paul Otlet (1868–1944), the father of documentation, and Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate – conceived of a project that sought to gather the world’s knowledge and file it using the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) system that they had created.
2 min |
June - July 2019
POOL
The Alternate Path
If he could he would only design main titles! Till then, award-winning art director and designer Harshit Desai is making a clear mark in the world of motion design.
5 min |
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Weaving Strands Of Success
As Principal Designer of one of India’s most well known design studios, Mahesh Borse has revolutionized the home décor industry. Decades of experience and a flair for looking beyond textiles to a complete business strategy help him make Mahesh Borse Designs a name to reckon with.
10+ min |
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Following Vision
Though co-founder and creative director of an advertising and design agency in Mumbai, it is his parallel roles as digital visionary artist and landscape photographer that allow Aashit Singh to get in touch with his true nature
7 min |
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More Cream, Please!
Malai, created by Zuzana Gombosova and Susmith CS, is a sustainable alternative to leather that will delight environmentally conscious manufacturers and consumers alike
3 min |
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Doodling With Purpose
Freelance illustrator and cartoonist Mounica Tata enjoys creating illustrations that make people think
4 min |
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A Himalayan Effort
At Atelier Lãlmitti, his studio in the mountains, ceramic artist and teacher Reyaz Badaruddin uses red clay to give form to his imagination
7 min |