March 2026

Based in Milan, the practice moves easily between product design, art, fashion, and illustration, refusing to prioritise one discipline over another. Salmistraro’s work is driven by an architectural understanding of form and a deeply emotional approach to objects, where colour, texture, and narrative are not applied as surface treatments but embedded into the design process itself. Her objects often feel animated, expressive, and intentionally imperfect, shaped by cultural re

Two months.  That is how long the Style Essentials team has been using the Magical Blends Skin Plumping Serum and Light Hydrating Gel before sitting down to write this review. Not two weeks. Not ten days. Two months of daily use, before forming an opinion worth sharing. Let us start with what Magical Blends actually is, because the brand deserves context before the review. It is a customizable skincare system built around the idea that one size does not fit all skin. You pick

As summer arrives, Anemos has put together a curated selection of designer fans that work as both cooling solutions and interior objects. The edit spans ceiling, pedestal, wall-mounted, and bladeless formats, each engineered for silent performance and energy efficiency while carrying a finish and form that hold their own in a considered interior. Three pieces lead the summer selection. The Uluru Gold is a ceiling fan with a gold body and warm brown blades, powered by a BLDC m

Ease of installation and long-term performance are two demands that often pull against each other in interior hardware. A system that installs quickly tends to compromise somewhere on precision or durability, and a system engineered for flawless long-term operation often demands more from the installer upfront. Häfele's MatrixBox Premium+ Drawer System is designed to address both without trading one off against the other. The most immediate change in the MatrixBox Premium+ is

Duka has introduced a stainless steel-look finish for the multi-S 4000, one of the most established shower enclosures in the brand's range. The finish is characterized by a brushed surface that adds a warm, sophisticated quality to the profiles without altering the series' fundamental design language. The multi-S 4000 has always been built around a clean, well-balanced aesthetic where the details do the work. The ergonomically recessed handle, the magnetic strip integrated in

Tucked inside Khotachi Wadi, one of Mumbai's few surviving heritage villages with Portuguese-British roots, 47A is currently showing Shadows of Empire, a two-person exhibition featuring Kolkata-based artist Jit Chowdhury and Mumbai-based photographer and painter Kaushal Parikh. The show opened on March 21st and runs until April 19th. The two artists come from entirely different backgrounds and work in entirely different mediums, which is precisely what makes the pairing inter

Sanya Malik's Black Cube Gallery and Shantanu Sharma present Line as Witness, a solo exhibition by Bhopal-based artist Yusuf, running from 29th March to 11th April 2026 at Sunder Nagar, New Delhi. The show brings together acrylic paintings, mixed media explorations and sculptural forms accumulated over decades of practice, and is open to all by prior appointment between 11am and 6pm. Yusuf has spent his career treating the line not as a formal device but as the fundamental un

Indriya, Aditya Birla Jewellery, and designer Amit Aggarwal took the runway at Lakmē Fashion Week X FDCI on March 21st in Mumbai with Orizon, a collaboration that brought sculptural fashion and Polki jewellery into a single, unified presentation. The show was built around one idea: that heritage does not constrain but equips, and that tradition is most powerful when it is treated as a living language rather than a fixed reference. Orizon unfolds as a journey from shadow to li

Aisha Rao showed her Spring Summer 2026 collection Inter-Hana on March 21st at Lakmē Fashion Week x FDCI in Mumbai, with 360 ONE as the presenting sponsor. The Hyderabad-based designer has built a consistent reputation for collections where the making process is as deliberate as the finished garment, and Inter-Hana continued that line of thinking with a collection rooted in cultural dialogue, in-house material development and a specific artistic reference that ran through eve

Anamika Khanna had the last word on Day 1. Closing the opening evening of Lakmē Fashion Week in partnership with FDCI on March 20th in Mumbai, her AK|OK collection brought the night to an end with a runway that felt considered, personal, and very much its own thing. The starting point for the collection was an idea rather than a trend: the quiet beauty of something that feels out of place. A flower growing where it does not belong. From that image, Khanna built a collection w

In Bhubaneswar, architecture studio Archohm has completed The Shuttle, a badminton academy situated near the renowned Kalinga Stadium whose built form is a direct and deliberate visual reference to the sport it houses. The building's deep amber-orange bowl-shaped envelope, which can be seen from a significant distance above the surrounding treeline, draws its formal inspiration from the cork base of a shuttlecock. The reference is not subtle, and it is not meant to be. The pr

Kelly Wearstler has made her first foray into piano design with Timbra, a collaboration with British atelier Edelweiss, a studio that has long produced custom pieces for her interior projects. Handcrafted in Cambridge, England, Timbra is constructed from layered birchwood veneer, its contours and curves drawn from the movement of sound waves. The exterior is sculpted and rimless, developed using a digital CAD model and produced with CNC machinery. Beneath the surface, the pia

knIndustrie's design approach sits at the intersection of material experimentation and table culture, and the latest work by Lara Caffi for the brand makes that position concrete across three distinct objects: Magic Objects, Sparky, and Rubin. Magic Objects is a candlestick crafted in concrete and available in three colors: yellow, taupe, and brown. The form references the silhouette of antique silver candlesticks but translates it into a contemporary material with a minimal

International Fragrance Day on the 21st of March felt like the right moment to talk about what has been on the Style Essentials desk for the past few weeks. The Fonzie Folksy Travel Set, four Eau de Parfum spray bottle in one compact kit, has been in steady rotation with the team, and it has earned its place. The set comes with four 10ml Eau de Parfum spray bottle named O' Live It, Evenfall, The Gallerie, and Runway Bows, each in a bottle slim and light enough to keep in the

I received the Moondew Mogra Toner and Glow Getter – Gotukola Face Serum from Dusky India and have been using them together for a few weeks as part of a simple morning and evening routine. The pairing is positioned as a two-step ritual designed to refresh the skin, restore hydration, and support the barrier using plant-based ingredients rooted in traditional formulations. The first product I incorporated was the Moondew Mogra Toner. The mist is lightweight and settles quickly

Sattva is a 1,800-square-foot high-rise residence in Mumbai designed by Vidhi Duggad Bhagat of The Blue Wall Studio, where the design brief was shaped entirely by what the apartment looks out onto: sweeping 360-degree views of the city skyline meeting the sea. The decision made early in the project was to build the interiors around that condition rather than in spite of it. Every material choice, every furniture selection and every spatial decision works toward the same end:

That Design Studio, led by principal designer Piyusha Upadhyay, has completed Seré Resort in Vagator, Goa, a 30,000-square-foot hospitality project that marks the studio's first built work. For a debut, the scale and ambition are considerable, and the images make clear that the execution has kept pace with both. Vagator is a specific kind of Goa. Less commercial than Calangute or Baga, more considered in its pace, it attracts a traveller who is looking for something quieter w

Italian furniture brand Bross has spent over four decades building its practice around natural materials, and its current collection is the clearest expression yet of what that commitment produces when it is paired with designers who have a specific and individual relationship to the materials they are working with. The collection brings together marble and stone, wood and cork across dining tables, coffee tables, chairs, armchairs, and modular accessories, each piece develop

Five years after working from home became a permanent fixture for a significant portion of India's workforce, the furniture industry is beginning to treat it that way. Ergonomic office furniture, long considered a corporate procurement decision, is increasingly being bought by individuals setting up serious home workspaces. Humanscale's entry into the Indian home office segment is a signal of where that market is heading. The New York-based brand, whose products are already i

For weddings and special occasions that demand both polish and comfort, LANGUAGE® has introduced a men's wedding footwear collection built around three distinct styles, each designed with a specific occasion and sensibility in mind. The Stellan Monk leads the collection with hand-painted detailing and classic brogue accents. It is designed for the groom who wants something with individual character rather than a straightforward formal shoe, and it brings a considered finish t