Architecture
AD Architectural Digest India
MEET THE WINNERS OF THE SEVENTH EDITION OF THE ADXJSW PRIZE FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFTSMANSHIP: JAYA JAITLY, SANTOSHI HANDICRAFTS AND THE VERNACULAR MODERN.
In an elegant award ceremony held at the Experimental Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, the ADxJSW Prize for Contemporary Craftsmanship felicitated this year's winners.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
IN CAIRO, DESIGNER ALIA EL TANANI CRAFTS A MODERN-DAY PALACE BRIMMING WITH EXQUISITE ART,
design and craft inspired by the cultural exchange along the historic Silk Route.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
IN THE SOUL GARDEN, DESIGNER VIKRAM GOYAL AND ARTIST SISSEL TOLAAS RECREATE THE SIGHTS AND SMELLS OF AN ANIMAL WONDERLAND.
Five protagonists from the Panchatantra and other ancient animal fables came alive in The Soul Garden, an installation by designer Vikram Goyal in collaboration with artist Sissel Tolaas, presented by The Future Perfect at Design Miami.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
CHANDELIER RESTORER FOR THE LOUVRE AND THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES, RÉGIS MATHIEU OF MATHIEU LUSTRERIE TALKS ABOUT HIS CRAFT.
For Régis Mathieu, the second-generation owner at the helm of the French chandelier maker Mathieu Lustrerie, restoration is not just a dialogue with the past, but also a dialogue with future conservators and designers.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
VIKAS DILAWARI THE RESTORER OF BOMBAY
Flora Fountain, Amarchand Mansion, Army & Navy Building, Lal Chimney complex, Hira Baug, corporation hall of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) headquarters, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Rajabai Clock Tower, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and immeasurably more-Vikas Dilawari has spent a lifetime repairing and restoring Mumbai's heritage buildings.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
KHWABGAH, A HOME SET ON A RIDGE IN THE ANCIENT ARAVALLI HILLS, IS WHERE MOTHER-DAUGHTER DUO
SUNITA AND KOHELIKA KOHLI RETREAT TO–AWAY FROM THE MADDING
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
DESIGNER MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI AND HER DAUGHTER, RACHELE REGINI, BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO ROME'S LEGENDARY TEATRO DELLA COMETA.
The lights go down, the red velvet curtains open and the show begins.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
SOUTH ASIAN ARTISTS TO WATCH OUT FOR
From Art Basel to the Venice Biennale, AD spotlights five noteworthy artists at the centre of the scene.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
AS ROLLS-ROYCE UNVEILS THE VERY EXCLUSIVE PHANTOM CENTENARY, AD VISITS ITS HEADQUARTERS IN GOODWOOD, ENGLAND, AND WITNESSES A GLIMPSE OF ITS MAKING.
A four-hour drive from London into the West Sussex countryside, in the heart of the South Downs National Park, lies Goodwood—the home of Rolls-Royce.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
PARISIAN DEPARTMENT STORE GALERIES LAFAYETTE UNVEILS A SWEEPING 90,000-SQUARE-FOOT STORE IN MUMBAI'S FORT AREA.
On the atrium floor of the glittering new Galeries Lafayette in Mumbai, a lotus-motif parchinkari inlay anchors the space as your gaze rises to the cupola overhead.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
KELLY
Wearstler is in a state of flow.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
PYRITE ANTIQUE BRONZE, REFINED JOINERY— THE GEM CABINET BY DEMURO DAS DRAWS ITS BEAUTY FROM GEOLOGY AND BRINGS IT INTO THE LIVING ROOM.
At first glance, the Gem Cabinet could be mistaken for an abstract artwork—its surface an expanse of glimmering silver, like aerial views of a sci-fi set.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
SHRUTI JALAN
ON A QUIET, LEAFY BREACH CANDY HILLOCK IN MUMBAI, THE AD100 ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER LIVES WITH HER HUSBAND AND SON AMONG WEDGWOOD BLUE WALLS, CONSIDERED LAYERS OF VINTAGE FURNITURE AND MODERN ART IN A CLASSIC ART DECO BUILDING.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
AN EXHIBITION AT HAMPI ART LABS DIVES INTO THE ART, POLITICS AND EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF INDIGO.
Just inside the entrance to the gallery at Hampi Art Labs (HAL), founded by Sangita Jindal, a terracotta vat occupies pride of place these days.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
The Historian
In the first issue of this year, we travel to Patiala and zoom into its frescoes, miniature paintings and intricate artworks on towering walls.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
ON THE BIRTH CENTENARY OF KRISHEN KHANNA, A DEFINING ARTIST OF INDIAN MODERNISM, HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, KAJOLI KHANNA, WRITES A PERSONAL ESSAY.
Long before the world recognised him as Krishen Khanna—the last Progressive and one of the defining voices of Indian modernism—he was a young man behind a banker's desk: restless, curious and already thinking in colour.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
AT NOMAD ABU DHABI, STUDIO RENN SHOWCASES A CONTEMPORARY INDIAN AESTHETIC ROOTED IN ANCIENT JEWELLERY TRADITIONS.
Studio Renn, a Mumbai-based jewellery design practice, has long argued that jewellery is not merely material but a way of thinking about form, intention and meaning.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
WARLI ARTIST JIVYA SOMA MASHE'S EXCEPTIONAL CAREER IS THE FOCUS OF A NEW BOOK BY CURATOR HERVÉ PERDRIOLLE.
For centuries, women of the Warli community in Maharashtra's Thane district have marked occasions like weddings, harvests festivals and so on with white ritualistic drawings, made with a paste of rice powder and water on the terracotta-hued walls of their huts made of mud and cow dung. And then, in the 1970s, came Jivya Soma Mashe, a rule breaker for many reasons.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
A HOME IN THE SCENIC NANDI HILLS BECKONS US
ARCHITECTS SUNITHA KONDUR AND BIJOY RAMACHANDRAN OF HUNDREDHANDS BUILD A HOME FOR THEIR CLIENTS ETCHED INTO THE KNOTTY TOPOGRAPHY, OPEN ΤΟ THE BREATHTAKING VIEWS OF THE LANDSCAPE AROUND.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
PRESENTING KUNAAL MANIAR'S MONUMENT TO LOVE, CRAFTED IN STONE AND WOOD.
Love doesn't always announce itself with a bold colour. Sometimes, it speaks in the shadows, in the soft matte black of granite, in the way two waves lean toward each other as if remembering an ancient, unspoken pact.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
SPANISH ARTIST IGNASI MONREAL BUILDS A GOLD-LEAFED HOME FOR HIMSELF: A SPACE FOR THE MIND, NOT FOR DAILY LIFE.
As the artist Ignasi Monreal gazes at the sky and the rooftops of Madrid from the golden dome that is his home, he shares some words of warning: \"Nothing here is practical or comfortable.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
IN OUR NEW BOOK, AD AT HOME, GLOBAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR AMY ASTLEY LEADS A HIGHLY PERSONAL TOUR, CELEBRATING SOME OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE CREATIVES OF OUR TIME.
Fascinating people at home.
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January - February 2026
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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