Architecture + Design
FROM Sketches ΤΟ SKY HOUSES
Few design studios can boast such longevity, and fewer still can claim to have consistently redefined how people live within their spaces. AND Design Co., founded in 2000 by Archana and Rupesh Baid, is one such rare entity. Joined last year by their daughter Sia Baid, the boutique firm has evolved into a family-led powerhouse of creativity, innovation, and thoughtful craftsmanship
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January 2025
Architecture + Design
DESIGN LEXICON
What if you could sum up the future of design in just one word? That's exactly what Team A+D set out to do! In a spirited brainstorming session, we explored the inspirations, aspirations, and ideas that excite us for 2025. Each of us picked a word that reflects the trends, philosophies, and changes we hope to see in the design world. From bold innovations to meaningful transformations, these words create a playful yet profound lexicon a guide to the possibilities that await in the year ahead. So, what's your design word for 2025?
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January 2025
Architecture + Design
DELHI HEIGHTS
This Delhi home by Design Deconstruct reflects the city's 'more is never quite enough' perspective
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January 2025
Architecture + Design
THE MODERN BLUE
This light-filled family home in Jodhpur, designed by 42MM Architecture, balances modernism with cultural fidelity
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January 2025
Architecture + Design
WHERE MODERNITY MEETS ANTIQUITY
In Mumbai's iconic World Towers, Eshita Marwah, in collaboration with Rutvan Sheth, transforms a 4,000-square-foot residence by fusing centuries-old antiques with cutting-edge design. This extraordinary home features the world's highest music studio, all while offering sweeping 270-degree views of the Arabian Sea
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January 2025
Architecture + Design
THE YELLOW BOX
In this Kerala home, geometry, colour, and pattern come together to create a space that's as much a work of art as it is a living space
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January 2025
Architecture + Design
THE ART OF STONE
World of Stones brings walls, floors, and outdoor spaces to life with stone creations that inspire.
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January 2025
Architecture + Design
JAIPUR'S NEWEST JEWEL
Designed by Shantanu Garg, 1932 Trevi opens its doors with an unforgettable evening hosted by Falguni Shane Peacock in collaboration with Lifestyle Asia and Travel+Leisure India
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January 2025
Architecture + Design
WHISPERS AGAINST URBAN NOISE
Where modern design meets Goan tranquility, a tropical villa designed by Natasha Chawla and Parzan Daruwalla reimagines architecture as a sanctuary of slowness, challenging the urban hustle one thoughtful space at a time
3 min |
January 2025
Architect and Interiors India
ALL THINGS DESIGN
Design Debate had its yet another memorable edition in the heart of South
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January 2025
Architect and Interiors India
Wise & Wild
A delectable design that emerges from a creative powerhouse that answers a question with a question. Read on to discover the bold and captivating design of Sorbet by MuseLAB for Aquant.
10+ min |
January 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
WHAT WOULD BAWA DO? WONDERS APARNA RAO, COFOUNDER OF PHANTOM HANDS, AS SHE PRODUCES REISSUES OF GEOFFREY BAWA'S HIGHLY CONTEXTUAL FURNITURE.
In mid-December last year, in the freshly restored Kannangara House designed by Geoffrey Bawa in 1959, an exhibition based on the late Sri Lankan master's furniture designs opened.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
KENGO KUMA TALKS TO AD ABOUT HIS DESIGN ADDITIONS AS THE CENTRO DE ARTE MODERNA GULBENKIAN IN LISBON OPENS ITS DOORS AGAIN.
Everyone who has lived in Lisbon likely has a fond memory of the Gulbenkian complex.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ANONYMOUS ARTIST PRINCESS PEA SHOWCASES A COLLECTION OF NINE NEW PRINTS AT THE SOHO HOUSE LOUNGE AT ART MUMBAI.
In Princess Pea's new collection of works, poetry, craft and the divine femininity coalesce with grace.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
FROM HIS REVERENCE FOR GANDHI TO HIS LOVE OF DANCE, A BOOK BY DAG OFFERS NEW WAYS TO KNOW MF HUSAIN.
If there was ever an Indian artist who earned immense fame and yet remained unknowable, it is MF Husain.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
THE URMILA KAILASH BLACK BOX
In a chance meeting on a flight in the early 1980s, Urmila Kanoria and BV Doshi got talking.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
ROCHELLE PINTO, EDITOR OF VOGUE INDIA, WRITES ABOUT FORCES OF FASHION, WHICH PUT 39 UNIQUE WORKS UNDER ONE ROOF, PIECING TOGETHER A SHORT HISTORY OF FASHION IN INDIA.
If you want to step into the mind of Cristóbal Balenciaga, the game-changing Spanish couturier who died over 50 years ago, all you have to do is beg, bribe or charm your way into 10 Avenue George V in Paris.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AS INVISIBLE COLLECTION COMES TO INDIA, FOUNDERS ISABELLE DUBERNMALLEVAYS AND LILY FROEHLICHER SHARE THEIR SERENDIPITOUS JOURNEY TO THE COUNTRY.
Isabelle Dubern-Mallevays and Lily Froehlicher first found India at their doorstep when Sonam Kapoor Ahuja borrowed a few pieces from their collection for an AD India cover story in 2021.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AS NEW DELHI'S GALLERY ESPACE MARKS ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY, AD LOOKS AT GALLERIST RENU MODI'S JOURNEY IN ART.
The New Delhi-based Gallery Espace, founded by Renu Modi in 1989, recently marked its 35th anniversary with two special exhibitions.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
FIVE SOUTH ASIAN ARTISTS IN LONDON
AD visits young trailblazing artists from South Asia and its diaspora in their London studios to discover their practices and unique interpretations of a shared history.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AD VISITS DEVI SEETHARAM AT HER BENGALURU STUDIO, AND DISCUSSES GENDER, PUBLIC SPACES, AND HER METICULOUS PAINTING TECHNIQUE.
Living a peripatetic life that took her to China, South Africa, Switzerland, Australia and more, Devi Seetharam developed an eye for gender relationships and sociocultural spaces.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
"MOMENTS OF REFLECTION", A SHOW AT MUMBAI'S AKARA MODERN HIGHLIGHTED MASTER ARCHITECT RAJ REWAL'S EARLY ARTISTIC PRACTICE.
Ever wonder what it is like for a nonagenarian to revisit their early creations after a gap of decades?
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
BANGLADESHI ARTIST AYESHA SULTANA'S RECENT DUBAI EXHIBITION EXPLORED THE DUAL NATURE OF STRENGTH AND FRAGILITY.
Born in Bangladesh in 1984, the US-based Ayesha Sultana explores notions of form, space and materiality.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
WE CATCH UP WITH TARIK CURRIMBHOY AT HIS STUDIO IN NEW YORK, AFTER HIS FIRST SOLO SHOW IN INDIA.
Tarik Currimbhoy's sculptures have a pure, meditative quality. A viewer can stand mesmerized for hours watching the elegant, geometric shapes move back and forth.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
Photo Lies by Dayanita Singh
Somak Ghoshal investigates the architectural montages of the celebrated photographer and provokes us to rethink our \"ways of seeing\".
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
THE QUIET BRILLIANCE OF SAMIRA RATHOD
IT'S WHERE HER ART AND ARCHITECTURAL STYLES COEXIST. IT'S WHERE THE MUNDANE AND PROFOUND COME TOGETHER. IN HER OWN HOME, THIS AD 100 DESIGNER'S DISTILLED AESTHETIC TAKES FORM MOST NATURALLY.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
Masters of Neon
Assemblage n.51 by the Back Studio, the central installation at the AD Design Show 2024, is an ode to the beauty of hardware—produced by Splendour Living.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
RAJIV SAINI
RAJIV SAINI, AN ARCHITECT KNOWN FOR HIS FINE CURATORIAL EYE, CRAFTS THIS HOME OF LEGACY ART COLLECTORS IN DELHI, FINDING THE PERFECT SPOT FOR A BHARTI KHER OR NILIMA SHEIKH, CHOREOGRAPHING CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN A MRINALINI MUKHERJEE AND MANJIT BAWA, AND MAKING DESIGN AN EVOLVED BACKDROP TO ART.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
AS THE MET IN NEW YORK UNDERTAKES A SLATE OF RENOVATIONS, WE MEET THE FOUR ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS LEADING THE CHANGE.
For a universal museum to fulfil its mandate, it needs to grow,” says Max Hollein, director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, reflecting on the realities of evolving collections and shifting curatorial approaches.
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January - February 2025
AD Architectural Digest India
THREE DECADES SINCE HE LEFT PATNA, SUBODH GUPTA IS HOMEWARD BOUND WITH "THE WAY HOME", A SOLO SHOW OF HIS SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS AT THE BIHAR MUSEUM.
At 60, artist Subodh Gupta is finally homeward-bound after spending three decades on the road, buzzing around the world carrying the mundane everydays in his bags to transform them into ambitious artistic spectacles.
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