Architecture
AD Architectural Digest India
SOLEUS, SOUTH MUMBAI'S FAVOURITE FITNESS STUDIO, IS A HIDDEN GEM IN THE HISTORIC ART DECO BUILDING OF DHANRAJ MAHAL.
Of all the art deco buildings in Mumbai, Dhanraj Mahal in Colaba stands out for its size and scale.
2 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
THE ICONIC MORVI PALACE IN GUJARAT
Four hours west of Ahmedabad, along a spectacularly straight road dotted with occasional settlements, sits one of India's most surprising architectural masterpieces: a maharaja's palace designed to conform to the purest precepts of art deco style.
3 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
SCULPTED IN TIME: SIX ART DECO-INSPIRED COLLECTIBLES THAT CELEBRATE MACHINE AGE MODERNISM, MATERIAL INNOVATION AND GLAMOROUS RESTRAINT.
CELEBRATE MACHINE AGE MODERNISM, MATERIAL INNOVATION AND GLAMOROUS RESTRAINT.
2 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
When Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar II of Indore and his wife, Maharani Sanyogita, invited Eckart Muthesius to collaborate with them, it was to construct more than just a palace.
Through the creation of Manik Bagh, or Garden of Rubies, the couple established a truly modern identity for themselves, confirming their legacy as discerning and committed patrons at the forefront of the international avant-garde.
4 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
HANUT SINGH WRITES ABOUT HIS LOVE AFFAIR WITH ART DECO AS THE ETERNAL INSPIRATION FOR HIS JEWELLERY LINE.
The Art Deco movement slays me.
2 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
WE CATCH UP WITH TYPE DESIGNER TANYA GEORGE AS SHE LOOKS AT MUMBAI THROUGH ITS SIGNS AND FONTS, AND HER SPECIAL AFFECTION FOR THE FLOURISHES OF ART DECO.
From Mumbai's colourful Colaba to bustling Bandra streets, you are likely to cross paths with type designer Tanya George.
1 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
JAY MEHTA WELCOMES US INTO HIS ANCESTRAL HOME IN PORBANDAR, GUJARAT, BUILT IN THE 1920S
An elegant decorative right-facing swastika symbol adorns the soaring cupola of a stately art deco home in the coastal city of Porbandar.
3 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
SET ON THE BANKS OF SRINAGAR'S NIGEEN LAKE, DAR-ES-SALAM IS A CHARMING ART DECO HOME TURNED BOUTIQUE HOTEL.
A cobblestone path lined with spring flowers leads one into the front lawn of Hotel Dar-Es-Salam, with a majestic chinar tree in the middle.
1 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
The Historian
For the last page of this art deco special issue, we travel to Visalam, a palatial mansion in Chettinad, and witness how art deco’s geometry merged with traditional Chettiar architecture.
2 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AT THE GREAT EASTERN HOME IN MUMBAI, RARE ART DECO FINDS FROM EUROPE, INDIA AND THE FAR EAST SIT ALONGSIDE PIECES FROM ITS NEW POST DECO RANGE.
In the leafy neighbourhood of Byculla, removed from the art deco stretches across South Mumbai, an unassuming bylane leads you into a pocket of the city suspended in time.
1 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ATUL KUMAR DELVES INTO THE HISTORY OF MASTER, SATHE & BHUTA, THE EARLY 20TH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL FIRM BEHIND SOME OF MUMBAI'S OLDEST ART DECO BUILDINGS.
In 1932, three architects came together in erstwhile Bombay to form a practice that would leave an incredible imprint on modern built form around India, from monumental office buildings and company headquarters to some of the most distinctive residences.
3 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
SHARADA DWIVEDI AND RAHUL MEHROTRA'S DEFINITIVE TOME, BOMBAY DECO, IS BACK ON BOOKSHELVES, EXPANDED AND UPDATED.
Mumbai's tryst with the art deco style is well known.
3 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ATUL KUMAR OF ART DECO MUMBAI TRUST CURATES A DEFINITIVE READING GUIDE.
The ultimate work on Mumbai’s art deco for visual learners, this book by Navin Ramani presents a colourful and diverse collection of the style spread across the city, breaking down typologies, lettering, and architectural elements and features.
2 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
JAIPUR DECO, A COLLECTION OF ARCHIVAL PRINTS BY PRARTHNA SINGH AND THE PALACE ATELIER, TAPS INTO THE PROMISE OF ART DECO.
When Jaipur's Golcha Cinema opened its doors to the public in 1954, it was every bit emblematic of that period in Indian design history.
2 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
MUSTANSIR DALVI OPENS THIS SEMINAL EDITION WITH AN ESSAY ON HOW ART DECO SHAPED OUR EXPERIENCE OF MUMBAI-THEN AND TODAY.
For the last 80 years, these buildings have formed the backdrop to our lives.
3 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF ART DECO, SMITI KANODIA PLANS A CROSS-CULTURAL FESTIVAL THAT HIGHLIGHTS MUMBAI AND MIAMI'S SHARED LEGACY.
Mumbai and Miami are kindred spirits—tropical cities boasting a vast coast-line, a continuously evolving skyline and a shared architectural heritage in art deco.
2 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
HOTEL SUNDERBAN KOREGAON PARK, PUNE
In Pune’s historic neighbourhood of Koregaon Park, amidst the sprawling estate that once belonged to the royal Gaekwad family of Baroda, sits a stately bungalow built between 1924 and 1926. Now run as a boutique hotel by owner and custodian Suresh Talera, this quietly beautiful art deco case study is an experience, not a spectacle.
3 min |
May - June 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
A VERTICAL GARDEN
Global firm SOM’s first residential tower in India comes up on the charming Carmichael Road in Mumbai; its warm cedar wood facade dotted with greenery
2 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
BRASS RELIEF
Payal Khandwala's debut home collection reinvents small everyday objects with fine, handcrafted details
1 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ODE TO STILLNESS
Kunal Maniar's Shanti Bench, weighing 4500 kgs, combines five precious metals to create a behemoth, monolithic piece of furniture
1 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
Coming Home to Morena House
Nestled in Mumbai's leafy Malabar Hill, this residential tower by JSW Realty is mindful of both history and climate. Designed by AD100 Serie Architects, it juxtaposes classic Art Deco elements with quiet luxury and evokes the charm of old-school bungalows in contemporary apartment living
3 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
HOT PROPERTY
London-based Becky Fatemi sold £400million of prime property last year. Her client base? A competitive international set who covet homes that aren't even for sale yet
3 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
FINDING & CREATING a HOME
Priti Mahajan reflects on her journey of moving from Mumbai to Dubai, where her home has become a sanctuary, filled with her family's travels, memories, and the life they've built together
3 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ARTIST IBBY NJOYAS PSYCHEDELIC INSTALLATION, THEORY OF COLOUR, MADE IN COLLABORATION WITH JAGUAR, SHINES AT MIAMI ART WEEK.
Colour appears as a sentient entity in Ibby Njoya's work. For the Cameroonian British artist and spatial designer, who burst onto the fashion scene for his experimental and often provocative visualisations, every hue carries an innate energy and elicits emotion.
2 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
SUCHI REDDY CREATES A FOREST OF COLOUR FOR THE LAUNCH OF ASIAN PAINTS' CHROMACOSM-THE WORLD'S LARGEST ARCHITECTURAL COLOUR SYSTEM.
Imagine walking through a library with thousands of colour swatches instead of books. Suchi Reddy of New York-based architecture, design and public art studio Reddymade creates that experience in her latest art installation for Asian Paints.
1 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
A 17TH-CENTURY VILLA IN FLORENCE, DRESSED IN A PALETTE OF CORAL, SAGE AND SALMON, IS ARCHITECT SHONAN PURIE TREHAN'S HOME AWAY FROM HOME.
It has been nearly two years since architect Shonan Purie Trehan shifted to Florence.
3 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
LUNAR MISSION
Minotti's Supermoon seating system gets a curvy update from interior designer Giampiero Tagliaferri
1 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
MIRA
COFFEE TABLE BOOKS FROM HER FATHER'S COLLECTION, TABLETOP PIECES PICKED UP OVER TRAVELS IN EUROPE, AN OBSESSION WITH SCULPTURAL LIGHTS, A GROWING APPETITE FOR ART, THE GIFT OF GOLDEN NATURAL LIGHT, FRESH FLOWERS AND FOOD ON THE TABLE, ALWAYS THE MUMBAI HOME OF MIRA KAPOOR AND SHAHID KAPOOR IS ALL ABOUT WHOLESOME FAMILY FUN, WITH DESIGN AT ITS HEART.
3 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
STATE of the ART
Pablo Picasso in the lobby, Anish Kapoor at the park - luxury real estate developers are curating art in and around their high-end residences to stand out and appeal to discerning buyers
3 min |
March - April 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ROOSHAD SHROFF'S DESIGN PRACTICE HAS A NEW HOME: IN A HERITAGE BUILDING IN MUMBAI'S BALLARD ESTATE.
All roads led to Ballard Estate for Rooshad Shroff, whose new office space doubles as a gallery housing objects from his eponymous studio. Following years of being on the lookout, the architect and designer finally ended his search at Dubash House.
2 min |