Dhoomimal Gallery opens its December programme with Ski(e)n: Re-membering through Performance and Thread , an exhibition that brings together RCA alumni Abhijna Vemuru Kasa and Insha Manzoor under the curatorship of Jyoti A Kathpalia. Both artists work from deeply personal terrains, yet their practices intersect on questions of memory, identity, and the structures—cultural, familial, and political—that shape the body. Abhijna, who divides her time between Hyderabad and San Fr

Late afternoon light falls across the Liberty façades of Cremona, catching the pale stucco of Via Manzoni and slipping quietly through restored windows. Inside, the 10 Manzoni Aparthotel opens like a secret, with eight residences that read less like rooms and more like compositions. The house, reborn from early-twentieth-century architecture, carries its age gently: ornate cornices, terrazzo floors, and the shadow of craftsmanship that once defined the city. Every detail has

For more than a century, Poltrona Frau has turned craftsmanship into a language of quiet precision. Its latest collaboration, with Six N. Five—the Barcelona-based studio led by Argentine digital artist Ezequiel Pini—extends that legacy into a new dimension: light as emotion, design as poetry. The partnership, revealed with The Five Seasons 2025 collection, is built around two sculptural lamps that explore how digital imagination can find tangible form. Moonbeam and Foliage ar

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In Chennai, high above the Adyar River, a home sits like a story waiting to be told. Its name is Nesavu, the Tamil word for weaving, and...

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Some books entertain, and then some books sit heavy on your chest, the kind that don’t leave once you’re done with them. They break you...

There was a time when a single grey hair could send people into panic mode. A quick pluck, a box of colour, or a rushed salon booking —...

Look around any big city café and the faces start to rhyme: lifted outer brows, inflated mid-face, identical lips. The aesthetic is...

Disha’s Love You Zindagi , published by Srishti Publishers , is not a book about escape. It is a record of lives that insist on being...

There is nothing ornamental about Kamini Kusum’s Soch Se Bhi Aage . Spread across a little more than 180 pages, the book is a...

Minimalism in design is often misunderstood as absence, as though less automatically means bland. Essentia Environments, however,...

Some offices aim for neutrality, places where nothing really lingers in memory. This one in Gurgaon’s Magnum Global Park is not that kind...

Most offices, no matter how new, end up looking like versions of the same idea — shiny glass, smooth surfaces, partitions that feel more...

The Botero table has always stood out. An unmistakable shape, generous, rounded, and immediately connected to the work of Fernando Botero...

Two solo exhibitions open side by side this month at Method Kala Ghoda, and while they seem stylistically worlds apart, together they...

There’s something refreshing when an international brand goes beyond the usual template and actually creates something specifically for...

There’s a new beat pulsing through Gurgaon’s Golf Course Road, and it’s not coming from the clubs — it’s rising from a place called Congo...

If walls could talk, the Akbari Darwaza in Lucknow would whisper stories of silken kebabs, perfumed biryanis, and courtly gatherings that...