In Banjara Hills, a short walk from KBR National Park, TEVA Architects has completed Jolly Bros & Co, a 3,000-square-foot café that takes the Irani joints of mid-century Mumbai as its direct reference point. The project started with research. Principal architect Vamsi Ballepu and the client team travelled to Mumbai and spent time in establishments including Café Mondegar, Leopold Café, Britannia & Co., Café Universal and Jimmy Boy before a single design decision was made. The

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

In a world where watches have become increasingly minimal and digital, luxury and bespoke watch designer Gaurav Mehta returns to the...