Architecture
AD Architectural Digest India
Raising the Bar
Veteran restaurateur Manu Chandra's first post-Olive project, Lupa, has a Tuscany meets New York Art Deco aesthetic.
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March - April 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Mood Indigo
Abishek Ganesh J.’s art practice Kaimurai— meaning method of hands” in Tamil—is a meditation on the pigment of indigo.
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March - April 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Mastering Stone
AD100 designers DeMuro Das tapped into the rich history of Indian lapidary for their new collections, wrapped in semi-precious stones.
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March - April 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Second Coming
Well-known dealers and restorers of antiques, the Moorthys' recent move into South Mumbai's Kala Ghoda has all the signs of a new beginning.
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March - April 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Maison de Famille
Anew iteration of the Louis Vuitton trunk pays homage to the eponymous founder’s family home.
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March - April 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Two to Tango
During India Art Fair this year, a joint exhibit gave us a view into the eclectic worlds of two of India’s most admired designers—Hanut Singh and Sanjay Garg.
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March - April 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Treasures of the Taj
Anew monograph, The Taj Mahal Palace A Meander Through Time, weaves arich visual narrative of the treasures held within Mumbai’s most iconic hotel.
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March - April 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Take a Seat
Award-winning designer Paul Mathieu’s latest creation, Libre, is a deft play on form, space, and light.
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March - April 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Symphony of Jewels
Jeweller Swapna Mehta composes modern heirlooms with found antiques that encode personal stories and rare craftsmanship techniques.
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March - April 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Cosmic Whispers
At Art Dubai in early March, AD caught up with artist Natvar Bhavsar, one of the finest colour field abstractionists of our time, at a solo show of his work presented by DAG.
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March - April 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
What's New at Salone
As Salone del Mobile returns to Milan this April, it comes with anew edition of the lightin biennale Euroluce, and thoughtful updates in format and experience.
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March - April 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
A SEPIA TINTED DREAM HOME
SHON AND HARPAL RANDHAWA'S STATELY DELHI HOME IS ELEGANTLY LAYERED WITH ART, KILIMS, SANDSTONE JALIS, AND 18TH CENTURY RAJASTHANI MINIATURES.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
PORBANDAR
WRAPPED IN HAND-HEWN LIMESTONE BRICKS, EVOLVED AND EXPANDED OVER DECADES, AND FINALLY GIVEN POETIC SHAPE BY CHANN A DASWATTE, JAY MEHTA'S FAMILY SOME HOME IN PORBANDAR, GUJARAT, HOUSES OF HIS MOST ECLECTIC ART COLLECTION.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
MAGICAL PROPORTIONS AND THE UNIOUE
NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SUTTON PLACE DREW CURATOR ANDREW BOLTON AND FASHION DESIGNER THOM BROWNE TO ACQUIRE THIS TOWNHOUSE ON MANHATTAN'S EAST SIDE.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
AMIT AMBALAL
TRADITIONAL GUJARATI ARCHITECTURE COLLECTION OF PICHVAI ART OF AND THE FINEST THE NATH DWARA TRADITION, WELCOME TO THE ONE-OF-A-KIND HOME OF ARTIST, SCHOLAR, AND ART COLLECTOR AMIT AMBALAL.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Nathdwara
Nestled in the Aravalli hills, the bustling town of Nathdwara is famed not just for its Shrinathji (Krishna) temple but also for the traditional artists who are known to live there since the 17th century.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Folk Traditions
There were artists even before there was an art world. They left their mark inside caves, and on the walls and floors of the huts they lived in, often in the form of drawings and paintings. Although made using the most elementary tools, such as twigs, brushes, natural dyes, and colours, their confident creations continue to act as clues to who we really are.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
The Curator - AMIN JAFFER
An examination of this late-18thcentury painting reveals the religious, historic, and cultural significance, as well as the craftsmanship, of the pichvai.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Dream Team
A heritage Bengaluru cantonment house in is the fabulous new boutique for couturier Tarun Tahiliani, restored and decorated in collaboration with AD100 designer Vinita Chaitanya.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
At Home With A&T
Fashion designer duo Abraham Thakore bring their super-chic signature aesthetic to a new home collection.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
In Praise of Caves
An exhibit on organic architecture by a team of artists and architects from Mexico finds the perfect showing at the sculptural Noguchi Museum in New York.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
13 Rue de la Paix
Cartier's oldest boutique in Paris sees a poetic transformative renovation, with an India-inspired salon.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Hello New York
With the launch of his first store in New York's West Village, Sabyasachi arrives with his authentic, maximalist, and India-proud self.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Maghreb on a Plate
Jaipur-based designer Thierry Journo adds high notes of drama to Good Earth’s latest dinner sets.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Capital Calling
Fair director Jaya Asokan gives AD a sneak peek of what awaits at India Art Fair, opening in February.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
In the Heart of Delhi
DAG's newest gallery in the capital city features key works by Raja Ravi Varma and a rare sculpture by Amrita Sher-Gil, altong other legends.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Heartfelt Art
Brooklyn-based artist Melissa Joseph's felted works are inspired by archival photographs of family far away in Kerala.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Notes From Bhutan
Bhutan's largest overseas art exhibition yet, currently on view in Brussels, is a sanctuary of therapeutic art.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
Threads of Life
Mumbai-based artist Lakshmi Madhavan unpacks the political and the personal in Kerala's immensely popular craft of kasavu.
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January - February 2023
AD Architectural Digest India
The Eye, the Sky, the Altar
Rithika Merchant's monograph chronicles her creative journey and underlines how myths everywhere are born from the same human response to nature.
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