Architecture
AD Architectural Digest India
EDGAR PINTO'S HOME IN FORT KOCHI
WOODEN TIGERS FROM BURMA, ORNATE PLAY HORSES FROM RAJASTHAN, A SCULPTURE OF A MAN IN VERDIGRIS COPPER SURROUNDED BY WATER, A THREE-HEADED GANESHA AND CHRISTIAN CHURCH ART-THE HOME OF GALLERIST AND HOTELIER EDGAR PINTO AND HIS WIFE, BREE, IN FORT KOCHI IS A SUMPTUOUS FEAST OF ART AND ANTIQUES.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
MUSEUM MAKER ABHISHEK PODDAR TALKS TO AD ABOUT MAP—ONE OF THE COOLEST CONTEMPORARY MUSEUMS IN INDIA.
Firstly, I think we need to develop an active museum-going culture.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
CONTEMPORARY ART, EVOLVING EXHIBITION FORMATS AND NEW NARRATIVES— HERE IS A GLIMPSE INTO THE STEADY TRANSFORMATION THAT IS UNDERWAY AT JAIPUR'S CITY PALACE COMPLEX.
Nearly 300 years old, Jaipur's City Palace has always been a must-visit attraction for first-timers to the city, and in recent years, it has gradually also become a contemporary cultural centre.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
GUJRAL HOUSE
Conceived originally in 1969-70 by artist Satish Gujral and architect Raj Rewal, and continually reimagined and expanded in subsequent decades, Gujral House in South Delhi has lived many lives.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
MONISHA AHMED SHARES HER EXPERIENCE OF SHAPING THE LADAKH ARTS AND MEDIA ORGANISATION IN LEH.
Travel, diversity, cultural practices and textiles have always fascinated me, especially fabrics that embody a layered history.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
DONALD JUDD, LE CORBUSIER, ISAMU NOGUCHI, CHARLOTTE PERRIAND, NASREEN MOHAMEDI, GEORGE
NAKASHIMA, AMONG OTHERS-COLLECTOR ROLAND WOLFF'S TOWN HOUSE IN MUNICH IS HOME TO SOME OF THE FINEST PIECES OF MODERN ART AND DESIGN, REFLECTING HIS UNIQUE, HARMONIOUS STYLE OF LIFE.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
The Historian
The Raza Library in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, is home to around 30,000 rare manuscripts in Pashto, Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and even Tamil.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ANGANA & ABHIMANYU
VETERAN ARCHITECT ABHIMANYU DALAL AND LONGTIME JOURNALIST ANGANA PAREKH'S HOME IN DELHI IS A STUDY IN HOW TO TRULY LIVE WITH ART THAT HAS BEEN COLLECTED PASSIONATELY AND DISCRIMINATINGLY OVER YEARS.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ITALIAN ARCHITECT VINCENZO DE COTIIS HONOURS CLAUDE MONET AT HIS SOLO EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK
Italian architect and artist Vincenzo De Cotiis inhabits an unusual world; his creations are rarely conventional, yet they carry an innate sense of familiarity.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
MODERN MASTERS SIT ALONGSIDE WORKS BY OLAFUR ELIASSON AND AI WEIWEI AT THIS SPRAWLING MUMBAI HOME
OF KARAN AND SHILPA BHAGAT-NEW COLLECTORS WHO ARE QUICKLY BECOMING THE TALK OF THE TOWN.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
SARMAYA ARTS FOUNDATION'S NEW SPACE IN MUMBAI'S FORT AREA SHOWS HOW PRIVATE ARCHIVES CAN ENRICH INDIAN SCHOLARSHIP.
In the sunny, welcoming reading nook of the Sarmaya Arts Foundation, there is an expansive collection of over 12,000 rare books and artefacts vying for visitors' attention.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AD STEPS INTO MANCINI ENTERPRISES' NEW MATERIAL LIBRARY IN CHENNAI, A SPACE THAT DOCUMENTS AS WELL AS ADDRESSES A CRITICAL STEP IN THE DESIGN PROCESS.
This July, AD100 firm Mancini Enterprises opened the doors to a new extension of its office—a ground-floor space below the two floors that the firm has been working out of.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
RANVIR SHAH SPOTLIGHTS THE CHARM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF DAKSHINACHITRA, A 30-YEAR OLD MUSEUM OF SOUTH INDIAN HOMES AND MATERIAL CULTURE
You enter the Chettiar house from the portico, and are transported through the thinnai (verandah) and the deeply carved door to the threshold of a house in Chettinad.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AS THE NEW FONDATION CARTIER OPENS IN PARIS, WE LOOK AT JEAN NOUVEL'S TRANSFORMATION OF A FORMER DEPARTMENT STORE INTO A SHOWCASE FOR ART.
Like its predecessor, the new Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain in Paris, which opened to the public in October, has been designed by Jean Nouvel, the architect of modern landmarks like the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and the National Museum of Qatar in Doha.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
WITH THE HELP OF HERZOG & DE MEURON, SOTHEBY'S ADAPTS A MARCEL BREUER LANDMARK IN NEW YORK INTO THE AUCTION HOUSE OF TOMORROW.
There are landmarks the public instantly adore and others to which their eyes and hearts must adjust.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
IN KARAIKUDI, CRAFT REVIVALIST VISALAKSHI RAMASWAMY IS SETTING UP A MUSEUM OF CHETTINAD'S RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE.
Chettinad is a unique case study for its palatial homes built between the late 19th and early 20th century by the mercantile Nattukottai Nagarathar community.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
MORT CHATTERJEE OFFERS A BRIEF INSIGHT INTO WHAT MAKES KIRAN NADAR THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT INDIAN COLLECTOR OF ART IN OUR TIME.
The desire to accumulate things is a primal urge shared across species.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AT GALERIE PATRICK SEGUIN, ANTHONY VACCARELLO OF SAINT LAURENT REVISITS CHARLOTTE PERRIAND'S RAREST DESIGNS.
In October, Galerie Patrick Seguin in Paris was the site of a rare dialogue between the past and the present, with an exhibition of French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand's furniture pieces.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
HUNDREDHANDS BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO A 150-YEAR-OLD ERSTWHILE SCHOOL WITH SABHA, A NEW ART AND CULTURE SPACE IN THE HEART OF BENGALURU.
Buildings that have reverberated with the voices of multiple generations carry a quiet magic—a magic that lingers long after those voices have faded.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
PHEROZA GODREJ, CO-CURATOR OF THE FRAMJI DADABHOY ALPAIWALLA MUSEUM, GIVES AD A SPECIAL TOUR OF THE PARSI MUSEUM IN MUMBAI.
Recently restored with great discernment, the Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum, better known as the Parsi Museum, in Mumbai offers a glimpse into the heritage of the Parsis of India and Zoroastrians of Iran.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AD EXPLORES ARTIST SEHER SHAH'S PRACTICE ACROSS TWO DECADES THROUGH HER LATEST SHOW AT JHAVERI CONTEMPORARY AND MONOGRAPH TITLED OF ABSENCE AND WEIGHT.
Amidst the strident voices and a spectacular thrust of contemporary art, Seher Shah's practice—rooted in drawing, architecture and printmaking—is a meditation on memory.
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November - December 2025
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AD REVISITS DR BHAU DAJI LAD MUSEUM IN BYCULLA, MUMBAI, AS IT REOPENED EARLIER THIS YEAR AFTER A TWO-YEAR-LONG RESTORATION.
Unlike most of Mumbai's museums and galleries that are clustered within the heritage precincts of Kala Ghoda and Colaba, the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum lies in the quiet, leafy area of Byculla, within the grounds of the city's only botanical garden, Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan & Zoo.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
THE MF HUSAIN MUSEUM OPENS IN DOHA - DESIGNED BY AD100 MARTAND KHOSLA, WHO RESPONDS TO AN ARTWORK MADE BY THE LATE ARTIST YEARS AGO.
Unfolding across over 32,000 square feet, Qatar Foundation's Lawh Wa Qalam: MF Husain Museum in Doha is the world's first and largest institution celebrating the artistic legacy of polymath Maqbool Fida Husain.
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November - December 2025
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NIKHIL CHOPRA STEPS INTO THE SIXTH EDITION OF KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE WITH A FLORID HEART, SUBVERSIVE TUNE AND AN EGALITARIAN VISION.
Nikhil Chopra's big idea about the sixth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale is as simple as it is poetic.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
Stillness. Contemplation. Memory. Ritual. Movement.
These were among the many words that BV Doshi scribbled on a paper, along with a sketch of a place that was part building, part landscape and part journey, and gave it to Khushnu Panthaki Hoof, his granddaughter and principal architect at Ahmedabad-based Studio Sangath.
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November - December 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ACNE STUDIOS' NEW HEADQUARTERS IN PARIS IS SET INSIDE A HISTORIC MANSION WITH AN ATTACHED LABORATORY.
Acne Studios, the Stockholm-based fashion brand known for its off-kilter minimalism and avant-garde denim, had long kept several satellite offices around Paris's Le Marais district.
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September - October 2025
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FOLKLORE INSPIRES SLOW-FASHION LABEL BOITO'S DESIGNS, HANDWOVEN BY COMMUNITIES ACROSS ODISHA.
A forest comes alive on the length and breadth of the Tara coat.
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September - October 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
MARGHERITA MACCAPANI MISSONI'S HOME IN THE ITALIAN PROVINCE OF VARESE IS A 1970S VILLA TURNED INTO A PERSONAL MUSEUM OF MEMORIES.
None At this house, the light that shines through the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the garden is reflected on the beaded leash of Gaia, a sweet Labrador, and it falls on the surfaces of a cottage that seems to float in a sea of green.
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September - October 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
COUTURIER GAURAV GUPTA'S FIRST-EVER BRIDAL SHOW IN MUMBAI REFLECTED HIS SINGULAR YET TOTAL APPROACH TO DESIGN.
We're not only dressing for the bride of today, but for the bride of tomorrow,” says Delhi-based couturier Gaurav Gupta about Quantum Entanglement, his debut bridal collection named after the phenomenon in quantum physics which binds two particles together for eternity. Futuristic and avant-garde, the collection keeps up with his signature combination of Western wear-inspired gowns with South Asian influences of the sari and lehenga, usage of artisanal Indian woven textiles such as Banarasi brocades and the nuanced play between fluidly sculpting drapery and letting it flow.
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September - October 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
LOUIS VUITTON CELEBRATES LVERS' FIRST BIRTHDAY WITH A LIMITED-EDITION COPPER BOTTLE.
Have you wondered what sunlight would smell like? Or thought about owning a sliver of its reddish-brown glisten as it were setting in the sky? Louis Vuitton’s LVERS Copper Edition lets you experience all that and more.
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