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

As homes shift toward more open, fluid layouts, the kitchen has become a central space rather than a separate room. This change has pushed kitchen design toward cleaner lines and uninterrupted surfaces, and Hafele’s new Profin Gola Profiles fit directly into this movement. The profiles allow handle-less cabinetry, giving modern kitchens the calm, streamlined look that contemporary interiors increasingly rely on. The Profin system is built around precise engineering. Hafele h

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

Stepping into this 2585 sq. ft. Gurugram apartment, you immediately feel a sense of calm. You’d think that a home for a young couple and...