DESIGN DIARY

Paramount House Hotel rises from an 80-year-old warehouse in Sydney’s Surry Hills, its brick shell now crowned by a delicate copper chevron screen that glimmers against the neighbouring art deco architecture of this former film precinct. The hotel is a story of artefact and ornament, of memory and reinvention, expressing the raw, honest fabric of the existing warehouse while capturing the spirit and excitement of the golden era of cinema. The project introduces 29 individuall

Unfolding across two serene levels, Mr̥ttikā, a 4,000 sq. ft. penthouse in Gurgaon designed by Custom Design Stories, is imagined as a slow, steady dialogue between material honesty and spatial rhythm. The home opens in a quiet foyer where warm timber flooring sets the tone for a palette that stays true to earth, craft, and subtle tactility. Flanking this entrance is a study-cum-guest bedroom and an enlarged kitchen, both reworked through civil changes that open up the plan a

For more than four decades, the Traditional Handicrafts Centre has carried the soul of India’s artisans across borders, quietly preserving what mass production could never replicate — the intimacy between the maker and the material. Founded in 1962 by Mahender Gupta, the family-run enterprise began as a modest effort to preserve the wooden artefacts and carvings of Jodhpur’s master craftsmen. What began as a preservation effort soon became a movement, one that took Indian cra

When two creative worlds meet with quiet confidence, something lasting takes shape. Frette’s new collaboration with interior designer Tara Bernerd, titled ‘Disrupting Architecture,’ brings together a century-old heritage of Italian craftsmanship with a distinctly modern architectural eye. The result is a collection of jacquard-woven throws and cushions that look and feel timeless, designed not just to decorate a home but to define the way it’s experienced. Frette has spent ov

Late afternoon light falls across the Liberty façades of Cremona, catching the pale stucco of Via Manzoni and slipping quietly through restored windows. Inside, the 10 Manzoni Aparthotel opens like a secret, with eight residences that read less like rooms and more like compositions. The house, reborn from early-twentieth-century architecture, carries its age gently: ornate cornices, terrazzo floors, and the shadow of craftsmanship that once defined the city. Every detail has

For more than a century, Poltrona Frau has turned craftsmanship into a language of quiet precision. Its latest collaboration, with Six N. Five—the Barcelona-based studio led by Argentine digital artist Ezequiel Pini—extends that legacy into a new dimension: light as emotion, design as poetry. The partnership, revealed with The Five Seasons 2025 collection, is built around two sculptural lamps that explore how digital imagination can find tangible form. Moonbeam and Foliage ar

The launch of the Balloons Collection by Brokis at Innovative Design Studio marks another quiet moment of dialogue between global...

As the festival season approaches, luxury aficionados are returning to timeless relics that exude craftsmanship and exclusivity. Opulin...

Poltrona Frau has unveiled the DressCove Night System, an evolved interpretation of the wardrobe and walk-in closet that can be now...

A rug has the quiet power to transform a room. It anchors furniture, softens acoustics, and adds warmth underfoot. It can tie together...

Bathrooms are intimate thresholds—spaces where design touches the everyday, where form must live alongside function. Duka, the Italian...

Joel, the collection conceived by Marco Acerbis for Turri, slips into a room with a kind of quiet assurance. It doesn’t demand attention,...

Every Indian home has lived with the sound of a fan. The slow churn in the afternoon heat, the uneven rattle of old blades when power...

Poltrona Frau has always treated the bedroom not as a private corner but as a stage for intimacy, ritual, and quiet elegance. With the...

Lighting is often described as an accessory in interiors, but Hafele has long treated it as something more essential. For over a decade,...

Some materials used in interior design have stories that go back even further than architecture. Ceramic is one of them. It is made from...

In Chennai, high above the Adyar River, a home sits like a story waiting to be told. Its name is Nesavu, the Tamil word for weaving, and...

In the rhythm of contemporary homes, the kitchen is no longer just a backdrop for hurried breakfasts or quiet dinners. It has become the...

Minimalism in design is often misunderstood as absence, as though less automatically means bland. Essentia Environments, however,...

Some offices aim for neutrality, places where nothing really lingers in memory. This one in Gurgaon’s Magnum Global Park is not that kind...