Architecture
AD Architectural Digest India
VITTORIA FERRAGAMO RECALLS CHILDHOOD TRIPS TO IL BORRO, AND THE EVENTUAL PROCESS OF RESTORATION AND RECOVERY OF THIS TUSCAN ESTATE.
The sunset over II Borro is a rare gold, spilling its soft colour all over the surrounding Chianti mountains.
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September - October 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
LOVEBIRDS OPENS ITS BIGGEST STORE IN HYDERABAD STAYING TRUE TO ITS BOLD, MINIMAL SIGNATURE.
STAYING TRUE TO ITS BOLD, MINIMAL SIGNATURE.
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September - October 2025
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PORUS & PRAYAG PLAY WITH FOOD AND FURNITURE TO CRAFT MINIATURE STILL LIFES FOR NAMA HOME.
Photographer Porus Vimadalal enjoys his eggs with a side of furniture.
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September - October 2025
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FROM A HUMBLE WORKSHOP SOUTH OF LAKE COMO TO AN ICONIC ITALIAN FURNITURE MAKER, TURRI COMPLETES 100 YEARS AND WE TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT ITS JOURNEY.
For over a hundred years, Turri has pursued a vision of excellence grounded in craftsmanship, quality and innovation. But rewind to 1925, when Pietro Turri opened his workshop in Carugo, just south of Lake Como, and wood was the soul of his furniture. “One of the stories passed down in our family is how, in those early days, the furniture from our first workshop would be transported to Milan on a horse-drawn cart for wealthy clients,” recalls Andrea Turri, now the fourth generation at the helm of the company. “The pieces would travel from Carugo down unpaved roads, guided by the craftsman himself.”
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September - October 2025
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RAHUL MISHRA WAS SEEKING UTOPIA, AND HE EVENTUALLY FOUND IT IN THE MOUNTAINS
OF UTTARAKHAND. CRAFTED WITH THE SAME RIGOUR WITH WHICH THE FASHION DESIGNER BUILDS HIS COLLECTIONS, THIS SECOND HOME IS WHERE THE FAMILY RETREATS TO FOR A MOMENT OF SUNSHINE AND SILENCE, COMMUNITY AND NATURE, AND A SLOW, CONSIDERED LIFE.
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September - October 2025
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NIMISH SHAH TURNS HIS FAMILY HOME AND TEXTILE FACTORY INTO AN ART RESIDENCY, UNPACKING CRAFT TRADITIONS AND MASS PRODUCTION.
Even the most mass-produced objects are touched by hands,\" says designer Nimish Shah.
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September - October 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ARCHITECTURE FIRM RENESA TRANSFORMS A 70-YEAR-OLD CRAFTS EMPORIUM IN DELHI'S MEHRAULI INTO MASABA GUPTA'S NEWEST FLAGSHIP.
Acascading wall wrapped around a column, sculptural shelves adorned with rich Indian handicrafts and a deep red dome in the middle of it all—designer Masaba Gupta's newest store is a sanctuary of high design with its soft curves and gentle slopes in moody tones.
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September - October 2025
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STEAMER TRUNKS OF YORE ARE REINVENTED AS BAR CABINETS, LIBRARIES AND VANITY TABLES AT TRUNKS COMPANY JAIPUR.
For more than 14 years, on a nondescript lane in Jaipur's industrial Kartarpura area, Trunks Company Jaipur has been handcrafting exquisite leather creations that recall the steamer trunks of yore.
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September - October 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
TAREK SHAMMA'S EXQUISITE HOME IN CAIRO
AUSTERE ARCHITECTURE, LONG ROWS OF WINDOWS SOFTENED SHAMMA'S WITH BOUNTIFUL, LAYERED INTERIORS—THE EGYPTIAN- EXQUISITE BORN ARCHITECT’S COUNTRYSIDE HOME Is CRAFTED WITH PRECISION AS WELL AS SOFTNESS AND INTIMACY.
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July - August 2025
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WITH FURNITURE BRAND TRIBOLT, AJUNG YADEN AND ATEM LONGKUMER FIND THEIR CALLING TO RECONNECT WITH THEIR NAGA HERITAGE.
In Nagaland’s Dimapur, a soft golden light from sunsets and lamps illuminates unvarnished, raw designs in a minimalist studio.
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July - August 2025
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HOUSE OF KANDADU
“Almost 25 years ago, along the Coromandel Coast, a local chief showed me—nestled along a quiet path lined with hundred-year- old trees—an incredible house.”
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July - August 2025
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IN A QUIET MAYFAIR SALON, SANTI JEWELS BY KRISHNA CHOUDHARY CONJURES CONTEMPORARY HEIRLOOMS FROM CENTURIES-OLD STONES.
CONJURES CONTEMPORARY HEIRLOOMS FROM CENTURIES-OLD STONES.
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July - August 2025
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ISHRAT SAHGAL, OF RUGMAKER MISHCAT CO, WELCOMES US INTO HER LONDON HOME, A DELIGHTFUL PLAY OF TEXTURE, MEMORY AND OBJECTS OF AFFECTION.
The first thing you notice in Ishrat Sahgal’s London home isn’t a chandelier or a statement-making art piece, but harmony and continuity.
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July - August 2025
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ASHDEEN OPENS HIS REPOSITORY OF ANTIQUE PARSI TEXTILES, BOOKS AND DRAWINGS FOR AD.
Ashdeen Z Lilaowala is known for his research, revival and contemporisation of the Parsi gara but few know that he is also an author and an avid collector of antique heirloom Parsi crafts.
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July - August 2025
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PHANTOM HANDS IS A RARE, ONE-OF-AKIND DESIGN STUDIO BASED IN BENGALURU.
AS FOUNDERS APARNA RAO AND DEEPAK SRINATH OPEN THEIR PERSONAL HOME TO US, WE DISCOVER THAT THEIR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY IS ALSO THEIR WAY OF LIFE—CONSIDERED, MEDITATIVE AND DISTILLED.
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July - August 2025
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LA PELOTA, MILAN
To visit once is delightful. But to visit every year and witness the journey of a creative house is much more intimate.
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July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
CLOTHING BRAND ROUKA'S NEW STORE IN KOCHI WEAVES FOUNDER-DESIGNER SREEJITH JEEVAN'S MEMORIES WITH A KERALA MODERN AESTHETIC.
As the first showers of monsoon wash over Kochi, fashion label Rouka's new flagship store feels like a cool, dimly lit sanctuary.
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July - August 2025
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GOWRI ADAPPA
CRAFTS A HOME TUCKED AWAY IN A LEAFY CORNER, OFF CHENNAI'S BUSTLING STERLING ROAD, FOR AMBIKA GUPTA, A WEDDING PLANNER AND PRODUCTION DESIGNER.
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July - August 2025
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ORPROJECT'S 3D-PRINTED WOOD SCULPTURE AT THE VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE BRINGS TOGETHER NATURE, CRAFTSMANSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY.
Carlo Ratti, the Italian architect and engineer, and curator of Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.—the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Architecture Biennale—believes that it is time to reclaim architecture's timeless connection with nature.
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July - August 2025
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FROM PINCHED KANTHA TO WOVEN SHIBORI, HERITAGE TEXTILES GET A FRESH SPIN AT DARSHAN SHAH'S WEAVERS STUDIO IN KOLKATA.
Kantha, the centuries-old Bengali embroidery tradition, is a deceptive craft—simple running stitches capable of conjuring stories of people, nature and entire communities on cloth.
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July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
VINTAGE PAISLEYS, FLORALS AND JACQUARDS COME ALIVE IN ETRO HOME INTERIORS' NEW COLLECTION.
What if your home could read like a poem—each silhouette a verse, each texture a memory, each pattern a metaphor? Etro Home Interiors' new line of furniture, Living Lore, evokes precisely that feeling: space as a story, written not in words but in wood and marble, brass and velvet.
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July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
WOODEN PLANKS, STITCHED TOGETHER WITHOUT ANY NAILS, RECREATE AN ANCIENT INDIAN SAILING VESSEL.
It was author Sanjeev Sanyal's research that kicked off this rather unique project: the recreation of an ancient merchant vessel, constructed using traditional stitching techniques, depicted in a 5th-century CE mural buried deep within the Ajanta Caves.
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July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
The Historian
For our craftsmanship issue, we visit the Dashavatara Temple in Deogarh. Dating back to the 6th century, built at the height of the Gupta Empire, its stone sculptures mark an important moment when carving entered its mature classical form in India.
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July - August 2025
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JAIPUR-BASED ATELIER FROZEN MUSIC LENDS ITS ARTISTIC EXPERTISE TO A TINO ZERVUDACHI PROJECT IN DELHI.
Known for his global portfolio of rarefied interiors—from yachts and country estates to Parisian townhouses—British interior designer Tino Zervudachi has long been revered for marrying classical proportion with quiet daring.
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July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
WITH A NEW FLAGSHIP STORE IN NEW DELHI, FRENCH CRYSTAL HOUSE BACCARAT REKINDLES ITS ENDURING RELATIONSHIP WITH INDIA.
When a chandelier travels across centuries and continents to illuminate a new space, it carries more than just light—it brings forth memory, history and generational craftsmanship.
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July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
A truckload of lime from Tamil Nadu, a bricklaying technique used by the Nubians of Africa, and a bright young talent. Architect and author Ramu Katakam reports on Kabir Nijjar and his experiments with brick.
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July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
STUDIO RAW MATERIAL'S RECENT WORK REFLECTS THE RHYTHMS OF THE FAMED MARBLE QUARRIES OF MAKRANA IN RAJASTHAN.
Studio Raw Material transforms place into story and story into its lyrical fragments.
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July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
BRITISH JEWELLERY DESIGNER ALICE CICOLINI REIMAGINES MEENAKARI WITH PASTEL SHADES OF LACQUER ENAMEL FOR ZOYA.
When Alexandra David-Néel crossed into Lhasa in 1924, disguised as a pilgrim, she became the first Western woman to do so.
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July - August 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
THE HOMO FABER FELLOWSHIP PAIRS 23 MASTER ARTISANS WITH EMERGING TALENT-THEIR FINAL WORK IS SEEN AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK.
In its three editions, Homo Faber Biennale, the contemporary craft fair held at Venice’s Giorgio Cini Foundation, has been a triumph.
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July - August 2025
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ARTIST-DESIGNER VIHAR KOTECHA FINDS INSPIRATION IN THE DECORATIVE BEAUTY OF INDIAN ARCHITECTURE.
An exquisitely carved porcelain monolith, the Resurgence Sculpture by Vihar Kotecha is a fascinating paradox.
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