top of page
All Posts


Book Review: AdiDev Press Announces a New City-Adventure Series for Young Readers
AdiDev Press has introduced a new picture-book series that celebrates Indian cities through color, movement, and everyday moments—the kind children notice instinctively. The series opens with Adi and Arya Visit Delhi and Adi and Arya Visit Kolkata , two books created especially for toddlers and emerging readers, where illustrations are not decorative additions but the heart of the storytelling. Written by Chitwan Mittal and illustrated by Asuma Noor, the books invite childre

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 18, 20252 min read


Crazy Cock Introduces the World’s First Mahura Cask–Finished Indian Single Malt
Crazy Cock has unveiled what it claims is a world first: an Indian single malt finished in Mahura casks. Titled Madhuca: The Heritage Editions , the release marks a significant moment not only for the brand but for Indian whisky-making, positioning indigenous ingredients and processes at the centre of a global luxury conversation. Crafted at South Seas Distilleries, the makers of India’s oldest single malts, the collection brings together heritage, experimentation, and a dist

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 18, 20252 min read


Lagori by Yaahvi: A Handcrafted Lighting Collection Rooted in Memory
Lagori is a childhood game most Indians remember instinctively rather than intellectually. The game involves stacking seven stones, knocking them down, and then rebuilding them again. Balance, interruption, repetition. For Nikita Bansal, founder of Yaahvi, that rhythm stayed long after childhood, shaped by afternoons spent playing the game in Assam, and it now finds form in a new handcrafted lighting collection that carries the same sense of tension and reconstruction. The La

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 16, 20253 min read


Cromo and Paprika: Material Shifts in the Cattelan Italia Collection
Chrome has returned to the Cattelan Italia catalogue. Once closely associated with the 1980s, it now appears in a more controlled, contemporary form, aligned with interiors that move easily between memory and modern production. The emphasis is no longer on shine but on precision, on how the surface responds to light and how it defines structure rather than decoration. That approach is clear in Eva. The chair reads as minimal, but only initially. Its proportions are carefully

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 16, 20252 min read


Book Review: Play To Kill by Puja Mukherjee Khattri
What gives Puja Mukherjee Khattri’s Play To Kill its hold on the reader is not loud action but the steady discomfort that comes from watching everyday routines shift in ways the characters cannot explain. Delhi becomes the ideal setting for this kind of story—crowded, fast-moving, and full of places where people disappear into one another’s blind spots. The novel begins with incidents that seem unrelated: a child disappearing inside a supermarket, a break-in that leaves no v

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 16, 20253 min read


Book Review: 19 Rules for Happy Relationships by Debotosh Chatterjee
Relationship advice is often delivered in sweeping statements, yet most people struggle not because they lack theory but because they lack clarity. Debotosh Chatterjee approaches this familiar terrain with a different temperament. His book is rooted in everyday behavior—the silences we let grow, the boundaries we fail to set, and the assumptions that settle in unnoticed. Instead of treating relationships as grand emotional undertakings, he breaks them down into habits that de

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 13, 20253 min read


Book Review: Voices in the Waiting Room by Mayank Gupta
Fiction set in hospitals often leans on urgency, but Mayank Gupta chooses a different entry point. His debut turns its attention to the quieter corners of a U.S. medical center, observing five Indian doctors who move through the same space while carrying questions they never quite voice. The book isn’t driven by events as much as by the private weight these characters try to balance behind practiced composure. Dr. Silva stands at the center, steady on the surface, until a ban

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 13, 20252 min read


A Palace Reimagined: Inside Gazal Gupta’s New Delhi Flagship by Renesa Studio
At The Dhan Mill in New Delhi, the new Gazal Gupta flagship opens like a quiet revelation. The entrance, flanked by two whimsical dog sculptures, sets the tone for a space that doesn’t announce itself loudly but settles around you with the calm assurance of a place shaped by intention. Once inside, the soaring vaults, lime-washed surfaces, and monochrome marble floors establish an atmosphere that feels part palace, part contemporary atelier—rooted in memory yet distinctly mod

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 12, 20253 min read


Enter this 3,200 sq ft Chennai home where every curve celebrates craft and fluidity
There are homes that try to impress you in the first minute, and others that unfold at their own pace, the way a familiar song does when you hear it after years. This 3,200 sq ft apartment in Chennai belongs to the second kind. Designed by Anahita Rattha of A Design Theory, it doesn’t rush to declare its style or its philosophy. Instead, it lets surfaces and contours reveal themselves gradually—sometimes in the quiet of a curved ceiling, sometimes in the slow sweep of a param

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 12, 20254 min read


Watch this Bengaluru villa carry Indian heritage with a cool, contemporary ease
Looking out toward a quiet fringe of mangroves and vineyards on Bengaluru’s outskirts, this 2,400 sq ft villa finds its emotional centre not in the landscape it faces but in the memories it chooses to hold close. The family who lives here — a couple, their daughter and two exuberant dogs — wanted a home that felt unmistakably Indian, not as a theme but as a lived memory. Their sense of belonging stretched across regions, textures, traditions. The wife carried the visual vocab

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 11, 20253 min read


Pompa Restaurant by Shabnam Gupta: A Mexican Tapestry Reimagined in Bandra
Pompa doesn’t arrive quietly on Linking Road; it meets the eye with an unexpected warmth, the kind that grows out of colour, craft, and a bit of mischief. The restaurant, shaped by Shabnam Gupta across 4,000 sq ft, leans into Mexican aesthetics without falling into caricature. Instead, it moves like a story told in textures — terracotta underfoot, sage green wrapped around walls, jewel tones appearing almost like punctuation marks. The place holds the spirit of a villa, but i

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 11, 20253 min read


NomNom at Khar – A Harmonious Blend of Asian Aesthetics by Sumessh Menon Associates
There is a certain quiet thrill in watching a familiar dining brand reinvent itself. NomNom, long known for its indulgent Asian comfort food in Mumbai, does exactly that with its newest outpost in Khar. The restaurant sits on a corner where the neighbourhood’s rhythm softens just enough for design to be noticed, and here, Sumessh Menon Associates shape the space into an experience that feels intimate, layered, and instinctively warm. The 1,400 sq. ft. interior doesn’t rely on

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 11, 20254 min read


Savor Nature in the Tropical Vibes of Makau Kitchen & Bar Designed by 23 Degrees Design Shift
Tucked into the dense urban fabric of Jubilee Hills, Makau Kitchen & Bar unfolds like a hidden retreat—an 18,516 sq. ft. sanctuary that seems to breathe differently from the city around it. Designed by 23 Degrees Design Shift for Adithya Thanoj and Raja Simha Reddy, the space reimagines what an indoor–outdoor restaurant can feel like when landlocked by towering office blocks on two sides and the massive presence of a metro station rising behind it. With its only true entry tu

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 11, 20253 min read


Two Women, One Vision: How a Kala Ghoda Studio Is Quietly Redefining Mumbai’s Design Culture
In Mumbai’s design district, a new kind of “furniture store near me” quietly rewrites the way the city experiences contemporary furniture. Inside Details Decor—the legacy studio founded by Razia Tyebjee—French entrepreneur Adeline Graham has brought her design-led furniture and lighting brand, Fern & Ade, to its new Mumbai address. It is a meeting of two creative worlds: one shaped by the quiet refinement of Northern Europe, the other by the soulful depth of Indian craft. Tog

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 11, 20253 min read


All Eyes on Me: A Restaurant in Bharuch Designed by P&D Associates
All Eyes on Me in Bharuch sits inside a structure that already carried some age and texture, so the design team chose not to erase that starting point. The clients were clear about wanting something contemporary but not disconnected from what was already there. With that in mind, the designers kept the exposed brick surfaces, allowing them to set the tone for the rest of the interior. Most decisions that followed were practical: how people would sit, how noise moves in a busy

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 9, 20253 min read


The Subtle Power of Festive Nails: How Christmas Nails Turn Into a Quiet Ritual
Every December, something small begins to shift in salons. It usually starts with a quick conversation, a picture saved from Instagram, or someone walking in saying, “It’s Christmas… do something fun.” What follows is almost never just a manicure. Festive nails have slowly grown into a tiny ritual of their own, something people look forward to as the year wraps itself up. The colours change first. Reds become brighter, whites turn frostier, greens look deeper than they do at

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 9, 20252 min read


‘Signs of Life’ by Kunel Gaur Opens at Method Delhi
Method Delhi presents Signs of Life , a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Kunel Gaur, bringing together four bodies of work that explore how emotion, identity, and structure coexist in the designed world. Instead of treating each series as an isolated study, the exhibition ties them together as points along a continuum — one where human nuance intersects with engineered precision. Across the gallery, colour, pattern, and industrial logic operate in measured tens

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 9, 20252 min read


Vintage Coffee Brews a New Chapter in India: Launches VINCOFE™ 100% Pure Instant Coffee
The landscape of Indian coffee continues to shift, shaped by a generation that cares as much about flavour and aroma as it does about convenience. Stepping naturally into this moment is Vintage Coffee and Beverages Ltd. (VCBL), introducing VINCOFE™ Instant Coffee Pure — a premium, 100% pure instant coffee that reflects the brand’s long-standing relationship with India’s coffee heritage. Vintage Coffee has spent years refining how it speaks to consumers. From the inviting war

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 9, 20252 min read


Where is Jennifer? — Aditiya Singh Brings a Sharp, Restless New Energy to Method Kala Ghoda
At Method Kala Ghoda, Aditiya Singh’s new exhibition, Where is Jennifer? , unfolds less like a thematic show and more like a stream of thought made visible. The question in the title isn’t a mystery to solve; it’s the starting point for a body of work that moves between humour, fixation, instinct, and the quiet chaos that fuels an artist who paints because he has to. The works drift between acrylic, ink, and watercolour, but what stands out is the way figures seem to appear a

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 9, 20252 min read


Still and Alive: UDC Homes’ ‘The Garden Remembers’ Brings Nature’s Quiet Transformations Indoors
UDC Homes’ new collection, The Garden Remembers , carries an emotional clarity that feels unusually grounded for a wallpaper series. Instead of framing nature as a static backdrop, the collection treats it as a living cycle — shifting from abundance to pause to renewal with a rhythm that mirrors our own inner seasons. It is a reminder that even in stillness, something is always moving forward. The idea began with a simple observation: nothing in nature disappears. What falls

Style Essentials Edit Team
Dec 9, 20252 min read
bottom of page
.png)