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Book Review: Wild Capital- Discovering Nature in Delhi by Neha Sinha
Wild Capital explores attention, revealing the profound beauty of the natural world that surrounds us daily, even in unexpected places. This book will quietly and permanently change how you move through Delhi, whether you love it, have complicated feelings about it, or have lived there and sometimes feel exhausted by it or grateful for it.
Shweta
Jun 44 min read


Aqara Smart Lock U500: Three Versions for Gates, Glass Doors and Standard Entrances
Most smart locks are designed around a single door type, typically a standard wooden front door with a mortise or deadbolt. The Aqara Smart Lock U500 series, now available in the UK, takes a different approach, offering three separate versions built for door types that retrofit smart locks have historically struggled with.

Style Essentials Edit Team
Jun 42 min read


Acqua di Parma Bergamotto La Spugnatura and La Caletta: A Summer Collection Built Around a Centuries-Old Extraction Technique
Acqua di Parma turns 110 this year, and the anniversary has produced a considered series of releases. The latest is La Caletta, a summer collection developed in collaboration with French interior designer Laura Gonzalez, known for projects including the Cartier Mansion in New York and the Hotel Saint James in Paris.

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Jun 41 min read


Le Creuset Fruit Cocotte Collection: Three Stoneware Pots Shaped Like a Peach, a Strawberry and a Blueberry
Hosting has shifted from formal dinners to everyday gatherings, with more people investing in their kitchens and tablescapes as extensions of their lifestyle. In that context, the objects that sit on a table or a kitchen counter carry more weight than they used to. They are part of the atmosphere, not just the function.

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Jun 42 min read


Salter Slushie Maker: A Frozen Drinks Machine That Takes On Ninja at Half the Price
At-home slushie machines have become a genuine kitchen appliance category over the past two years, largely on the back of the Ninja Slushi, which sells at £299.99. Salter, the British kitchen appliance brand, has now entered the same space with its own Slushie Maker, priced at £179.99 and built around a similar operating premise.

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Jun 41 min read


Dreame Cyber X: A Stair-Climbing Robot Vacuum That Cleans Each Step on the Way Down
Robot vacuums have been solving floor-cleaning across single rooms and open-plan spaces for years, but stairs have remained the consistent limitation. Most models stop at the edge of a staircase. The Dreame Cyber X, first previewed at IFA Berlin in 2025 and formally announced at Dreame's Paris launch event this week, addresses that directly with a purpose-built stair-climbing system and now comes with a stair-cleaning function that was absent from the earlier concept.

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Jun 42 min read


Barista M3 1926 Limited Edition Carbon Fiber by Ducati: A Coffee Machine Built Like a Motorcycle
Ducati was founded in Bologna in 1926, and the centenary has produced the kind of releases one would expect from a marque of its standing. The Barista M3 1926 Limited Edition Carbon Fiber, developed in collaboration with Swiss manufacturer Cuisine Barista, is a different kind of object: a capsule espresso machine built with the same material logic as a racing motorcycle.

Style Essentials Edit Team
Jun 41 min read


Norqain Adventure Chrono Swiss Football National Team Limited Edition: A World Cup Watch With Player Input
The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off across the United States, Canada, and Mexico in just a few weeks, bringing together 48 nations in the tournament's largest edition to date. Switzerland is among them, and Swiss watch brand Norqain, which holds an official watch licensing partnership with the Swiss national football teams, has marked the occasion with a limited edition chronograph that went through an unusually direct design process.

Style Essentials Edit Team
Jun 42 min read


Breguet Tradition Seconde Rétrograde 7037, 7038, 7097, and GMT 7067: Four New References Extend a Collection That Began in 2005
When Breguet introduced the Tradition collection in 2005, the premise was straightforward: invert the movement so that its architecture faces the wearer rather than the watchmaker. The bridges, mainplate, barrel, and gear train, elements that conventional watchmaking keeps out of sight beneath the dial, became the visual substance of the watch. An off-center time display at 12 o'clock sat within that mechanical landscape rather than over it.

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Jun 13 min read


Louis Vuitton Color Blossom: When the Jewelry Archive Turns Into a Watch Collection
Color Blossom has been in Louis Vuitton’s jewelry collection for more than 10 years. Over the years, the collection has become one of the more quietly persistent signatures in the Maison’s fine jewelry range, revolving around the four-petal flower that appears in the house’s monogram next to a four-point star and a four-point star set in a diamond.

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Jun 12 min read


Product Review: Chicco Baby Moments Gentle Body Wash & Shampoo
The Chicco Baby Moments Head to Toe Wash is formulated with 92 percent natural ingredients, combining mild plant-based cleansers, oat bran extract, and apricot extract to gently cleanse without stripping the skin’s natural moisture. Free from parabens, SLS, SLES, alcohol, dyes, phenoxyethanol, and tropolone, the dermatologically tested no-tears formula leaves skin and hair feeling soft, nourished, and comfortable after every bath.

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May 312 min read


Book Review: My Summer of Cricket by Nikhil Kulkarni
A deeply personal and emotionally resonant memoir, My Summer of Cricket by Nikhil Kulkarni follows one lifelong cricket fan’s journey across Australia during the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, exploring memory, migration, fandom, and the enduring emotional pull of the game.

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May 314 min read


Children's Book Review: Why I Feel Series by Rupa Publications
The What Is That series was designed to help very young children understand the world around them. The Why I Feel series is about something far more tender and complex. It is about helping them understand the world within them. Children feel emotions before they know the words for them.

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May 293 min read


Product Review: Nat Habit Anti-Dandruff Neem Beracyl Navdha Shampoo with FlakeZero Technology
Most anti-dandruff shampoos are built around a simple and quietly dishonest promise: suppress the flakes, keep the customer coming back. The scalp gets stripped, the barrier breaks down, the fungal environment rebounds, and the cycle repeats. The Indian haircare market has been running on this loop for decades, and most people dealing with dandruff have simply accepted recurrence as part of the deal.

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May 282 min read


Product Review: Tri-Leaf Rosemary Summer DASABUTI Hair Oil by Nat Habit
The Nat Habit Tri-Leaf Rosemary Summer Hair Oil is part of the brand's DASABUTI range, which is built on an authentic Ayurvedic preparation method where fresh herbs are slow-infused for over ten hours in cold-pressed oils.

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May 282 min read


Product Review : Parasoft Cream for Dry Skin by Salve Pharmaceuticals
Before discussing what works, let's first cover a little about the brand. Salve Pharmaceuticals has been a trusted name in pharmaceutical skincare in India, and Parasoft is one of its most established products, widely available across leading pharmacies and online. It is not a lifestyle skincare brand in the conventional sense. It is a dermatologist-tested, clinically formulated moisturizer built around one clear purpose: tackling dry, dehydrated, and compromised skin.

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May 282 min read


Scavolini's Stilo System by Spalvieri & Del Ciotto Takes a Single Design Language from Kitchen to Bathroom, Built Around the Cylinder
Scavolini's Stilo, designed by Spalvieri & Del Ciotto, is a whole-home system that runs from kitchen through living area to bathroom within a single coherent design language, premised on the idea that the contemporary home no longer organises itself around fixed single-purpose rooms but around spaces that shift function across the day.

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May 272 min read


Luxury in a Glass: 5 Rare Traditional Drinks From Around the World
Five beverages that predate the wine list by centuries and have been waiting for the world to catch up — mitti attar from Kannauj, ceremonial matcha from Uji, tepache from Oaxaca, sikhye from Korea, and single-origin drinking chocolate from Madagascar.

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May 278 min read


Children's Book Review: The "What Is That?" Series by Moonstone
Five beautifully made board books covering animals, numbers, colours, vehicles, and weather — the What Is That? series by Moonstone, Rupa Publications' children's imprint, is early learning done right for children aged one to four.

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May 273 min read


Seré Resort, Vagator: Why Goa's Smartest Travellers Are Choosing to Stay In
At a certain point, Goa stops being about the places you go and starts being about the place you stay. Seré Resort in Vagator — eight fully serviced private pool villas, dedicated butlers, in-villa dining — is built for exactly that realization.

Style Essentials Edit Team
May 272 min read
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