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The Akanksha Foundation has spent decades working with children from underserved communities across India, providing them with access to education and opportunity that circumstances withheld. This exhibition is what happens when you add art to that equation. The children who made these works were taught to look at the world through the eyes of some of its most distinctive visual voices—Van Gogh, MF Hussain, Jamini Roy, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Banksy—and then asked to look at their own lives through the same eyes. What they found was not what you might expect, which is precisely the point. The Starry Night returns here as the Bombay skyline, the swirling night sky of Provence replaced by a city these children know from the inside in ways that most of its residents never will. Tanjore painting, with its gold leaf and devotional intensity, is directed toward the people who matter most to them, their mothers, their gods, the faces that anchor their daily world. Banksy's stencil logic teaches them that art can be an act of claiming space, of placing yourself visibly inside a world that has not always made room for you. Through MF Hussain they find boldness. Through Georgia O'Keeffe they find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. The show is at 47-A Khotachi Wadi, a nineteenth-century Portuguese-style house in one of the last original village precincts that Bombay did not manage to erase, in the culturally rich and historically layered neighbourhood of Girgaum. The space has a quality of intimate seriousness that suits the work exactly. The show closes 7 June. 29 May to 7 June · 11 AM to 7 PM · Closed Mondays · 47-A Khotachi Wadi, Girgaum, Mumbai

The Business of Business Is (Not) Just Business. Published by HarperCollins India Sutapa Banerjee has spent over thirty years in financial services, board governance, and behavioral insights. She sits on the boards of Zomato, Godrej Properties, and Polycab. She was recognized as one of the Top 20 Global Rising Stars of Wealth Management by the Institutional Investor Group in 2007 and shortlisted among the 50 Most Powerful Women by Fortune India in 2012. When someone with this kind of biography edits a book about corporate responsibility in India, you pay attention. And this book deserves every bit of that attention. The Business of Business Is (Not) Just Business is an anthology, a collection of essays brought together by Banerjee and structured as a thought experiment, asking one question that the Indian corporate world has been avoiding for too long: not whether businesses should act responsibly, but how that responsibility can be made genuinely meaningful rather than merely performed. The foreword is by Nadir Godrej, which alone tells you something about the seriousness with which this project was assembled. Banerjee gathers economists, policy experts, investors, and industry leaders to set aside boardroom jargon and discuss what genuinely works in business. The result is a book that cuts through corporate virtue signaling with a directness that is both necessary and, in the current climate of carefully worded corporate communication, quietly radical. The thread connecting every essay is behavioral economics, the study of how individuals and organizations actually make decisions rather than how they are theoretically supposed to. Banerjee applies this lens to three of the most pressing challenges facing Indian business today: environmental sustainability, unequal economic participation, and the social norms and stereotypes that shape economic life in ways that rarely get examined honestly. The insight that runs through all three sections is that people and organizations are not moved toward better choices by being told what the right thing to do is. They are moved by changing the way choices are presented to them in the first place. It sounds simple. The essays show how extraordinarily complex and how enormously consequential that simplicity is in practice. The writing across the collection is sharp, data-rich, and grounded in Indian examples throughout, which matters enormously in a genre that has a tendency to import frameworks from American and European contexts and apply them to Indian business with varying degrees of relevance. The sections on women's economic participation are among the strongest in the book, making the case for inclusion not as a moral argument but as an economic one, with the kind of evidence that leaves little room for the usual corporate hedging. This is a book that one must read at least once and, if the opportunity presents itself, read again, because the first reading gives you the arguments and the second reading gives you the implications, and the implications are where the real discomfort and the real value live. For anyone in corporate leadership or policy, or anyone genuinely interested in how behavioral thinking can be applied to the most complex challenges facing Indian business, this is essential reading. It also carries the standard of care in writing, editing, and production that HarperCollins India brings to its most serious nonfiction, and that standard shows on every page. Title: The Business of Business Is (Not) Just Business Edited by: Sutapa Banerjee. Published by: HarperCollins India. Available on Amazon, Flipkart, and at harpercollins.co.in.

Globe-Trotter has spent over a century making luggage that is built to travel. The Steamer Home Trunk is built to stay. Inspired by early twentieth-century steamer trunks, the new Steamer Home Trunk retains their sturdy construction and generous proportions while focusing entirely on interior functionality. Placed at the end of a bed, it functions as an ottoman. Used as a centerpiece, it replaces a coffee table. In either context, it brings the visual weight and craft heritage of a century of luggage-making into a room that benefits from both. Leather handles and polished hardware accent the expertly constructed paneling, and a removable interior tray provides practical storage within. Each of the four colorways carries a distinct interior lining. The marmalade and brown trunk features a finely woven fabric depicting an English countryside scene with a stag. The navy and red trunk is lined with a finely woven cotton motif. The green and brown trunk features a tailored-inspired woven design. The oxblood and black trunk reveals Globe-Trotter's signature repeat motif, an exclusive design unique to the house, making the interior as considered as the exterior. The Steamer Home Trunk is priced at £3,995, €4,595, US$5,595, and AU$9,100. www.globe-trotter.com

In 1936, Scottish shipyard Fife of Fairlie built a Bermudian ketch called Eilean. Ninety years later, that same vessel is returning to the classic regatta circuit, sailing across France, Italy, and Spain through its 2026 season after an official ship launch at Italian shipyard Cantiere del Carlo. Panerai, which acquired and restored Eilean in 2009, has marked the occasion with a watch that draws its material directly from the maritime world the ketch was built for. The Radiomir Bronzo PAM00760 is cased in bronze, a material with a documented history in ship and yacht construction valued for its durability and resistance to saltwater corrosion, and one that Panerai has incorporated into its designs with enough consistency that it has become part of the brand's material identity. The case measures 47 mm in a subtle rounded square shape with a brushed bronze bezel and crown. The dial is dark green with a degradé surface treatment, the edges appearing darker while the center is considerably lighter, with oversized bronze Arabic numerals and hour markers and blue steel hands treated with Super-LumiNova for visibility in low light conditions. The hand-wound P.3000 calibre movement inside is designed to embody the robust characteristics of Panerai's early instruments made for the Italian Navy. It is visible through an open titanium caseback displaying a wide bridge, three companion bridges, and two spring barrels. A quick-change time function allows the hour hand to be moved forwards or backwards by one hour at the first crown-click position without disturbing the minute hand, a practical consideration for a watch with a sailing heritage. The movement delivers a three-day power reserve. The case is water resistant to 100 meters and is completed with a dark brown rolled leather strap. The Panerai Radiomir Bronzo PAM00760 is available now at £16,800. www.panerai.com

To mark its 145th anniversary, Seiko has introduced a new member of its Presage Craftsmanship Classic Series that places one of Japan's oldest ceramic traditions at the center of a contemporary watch dial. The Seiko 145th Anniversary Limited Edition Craftsmanship Classic Series Arita Porcelain in Ruri Blue is limited to 1,500 pieces worldwide and is available to pre-order now at £1,600. The dial takes its name and its material from Arita, a small town in Kyushu, the third largest island in southwest Japan, which came to prominence in the early 17th century when clay suitable for porcelain production was first discovered there. Arita porcelain has been made continuously since that discovery, and the craft traditions developed over those four centuries are what make the dial of this particular watch both technically distinctive and genuinely unrepeatable. Seiko describes the Ruri Blue glaze used here as the deepest Arita glaze ever achieved for the Presage collection, and because the dial is handcrafted, each of the 1,500 examples exhibits its own unique combination of tiny indentations and color variations. No two are the same. The case is 39.6mm stainless steel treated with a super-hard coating for increased strength, protected by a dual-curved sapphire crystal over the dial and featuring curved lugs in a new case design for a more comfortable fit. The exhibition case back reveals the calibre 6R51 automatic movement within, which carries 24 jewels and offers 72 hours of power reserve. The screw-down case back carries a limited edition marking. The watch is rated splash resistant rather than water resistant, making it unsuitable for swimming or showering. It comes on a sustainable LWG-certified leather strap and is presented in a special anniversary box. Available to pre-order now at £1,600, limited to 1,500 pieces worldwide. www.seiko.com

Fender and PAC-MAN have collaborated on a limited edition guitar that is equal parts collector's object and fully functional instrument. The limited edition Fender x PAC-MAN Player II Telecaster is available now as a web exclusive, made to order at £949, with a current delivery wait time of approximately four months from the point of order. The guitar is built on the classic Fender Telecaster architecture with an Alder body and a rosewood fingerboard at a 9.5-inch radius with rolled edges. The neck follows Fender's Modern C profile, described by the brand as fast and fluid, with 22 medium jumbo frets. The pickups are Player Series Alnico V Single-Coil Tele units, delivering what Fender describes as crystalline highs, musical mids, and tight lows. The hardware configuration includes a 3-way blade switch, a 6-saddle bridge, and ClassicGear tuners for tuning stability. The visual language of the guitar draws directly from the original Pac-Man game. The front of the body features the High Score display, two-player score readings, multicolored ghosts, fruit, and Pac-Man himself across the body surface. The PAC-MAN logo appears on the back. The result is a piece that functions as a serious Telecaster while carrying the complete visual vocabulary of one of the most recognized games in the history of the medium. The limited edition Fender x PAC-MAN Player II Telecaster is available exclusively at the Fender website. Made to order. Limited edition. www.fender.com

Fifty pieces. A. Lange & Söhne's latest release, the Cabaret Tourbillon Honeygold, is limited to fifty pieces and showcases the brand's tourbillon expertise, proprietary Honeygold alloy, and precise dial craftsmanship. The case is crafted in Honeygold, A. Lange & Söhne's own gold formulation, at 29.5 x 39.2 mm with a thickness of 10.3 mm, proportions that keep the rectangular silhouette slim and elegant while accommodating a genuinely complex movement within. The dial layout is organized with the clarity that defines the brand's design language: the tourbillon sits at six o'clock with a stop-seconds function for accurate time-setting, a small seconds sub-dial sits toward nine o'clock, and an up/down power reserve indicator sits toward three o'clock. Three complications, one balanced and entirely legible dial. The dial manufacturing is where the precision becomes most apparent. All logos and decorations are crafted from the same slab of rose gold as the dial itself, each meticulously sculpted to heights as little as 0.15 mm. The dial is then black-rhodiumed before being ground, buffed, and polished back to a high shine, after which the applied indices and outside date surround are added. The sequence of operations required to achieve that result at that tolerance is what separates a watch at this level from everything below it. Inside, the manually wound in-house calibre L042.1 is built to fit the rectangular case geometry precisely and is visible in full through an exhibition case back. The movement finishing meets the standards that have defined A. Lange & Söhne's position in German haute horlogerie since the manufacturer's re-establishment in Glashütte in 1990. The case attaches to a hand-stitched brown alligator leather strap. The Cabaret Tourbillon Honeygold is limited to 50 pieces. Pricing has not been confirmed. www.alange-soehne.com

Pedrali has introduced what it calls the "Gentle Habitat," a design philosophy built around the idea that the spaces we live in should actively contribute to our well-being rather than simply hold our furniture, and the new collection it has built around that conviction is worth paying attention to. Two new collaborations define the range. With Formafantasma, the design duo founded by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, Pedrali produced Estratto, a collection of monomaterial aluminum side tables and consoles that takes the process of aluminum extrusion as its conceptual and material starting point. The base of each piece consists of three concave aluminum extrusions joined together with the internal cavity deliberately left empty, and the tabletops in square, rectangular, and round versions are distinguished by edges folded slightly downward. Available in glossy lacquered or anodized colors, the collection transforms an industrial material into something refined without losing its material honesty. The aluminum is recycled and recyclable, and the design is built to last. With AMDL CIRCLE, the studio founded by architect Michele De Lucchi, Pedrali produced Fibra, a daybed collection whose most distinctive feature is the combination of solid teak legs and an extruded aluminum perimeter structure. The warmth of the wood against the precision of the metal produces a tension that gives the collection its character. Fibra converts from a single to a double configuration through a central teak slatted platform, and a concealed reclining backrest allows movement between upright and fully extended positions. The outdoor upholstery performs to technical specifications while maintaining the appearance and feel of indoor textiles. The broader collection introduces seating by Eugeni Quitllet, Odo Fioravanti, Patrick Jouin and Cazzaniga Mandelli Pagliarulo alongside new versions of Sebastian Herkner's Blume Sideboard, extending a range that is as coherent in its design language as it is wide in its application across residential and outdoor living. www.pedrali.com

There are chairs that furnish a room and chairs that define it. The Corsetto, designed by Argentine designer Cristián Mohaded for Italian furniture house Molteni & C and unveiled at NYCxDesign 2026 in New York, belongs to the second category. The armchair embodies controlled sculptural tension, with its leather and fabric actively shaping the silhouette rather than merely covering the frame. The result is something that feels both enveloping and architecturally precise, generous enough to actually sit in for extended periods and considered enough to hold its presence in a room with confidence. The chair's balanced proportions make it feel inevitable rather than designed, the key distinction between timeless and dated upholstered furniture. The chromatic sensibility is warm without being decorative, and there is a quiet Art Deco quality to the overall character of the piece, understood more as a mood than a stylistic reference. It is the kind of armchair that looks better in ten years than it does today, which is the only real measure of whether a piece of furniture is worth the investment. Corsetto is part of the Molteni&C 2026 Collection. www.molteni.it

The outdoor kitchen has moved well beyond the category of seasonal luxury. What was once a weekend novelty has become, for a growing number of homeowners, a genuinely considered extension of the living space, designed with the same permanence and intention as the kitchen indoors. Napoleon's newly launched Oasis 106 Modular Island Kit sits at the serious end of that market. At the center of the Oasis 106 is the 700 Series 32-inch gas grill, a four-burner stainless steel unit offering 3,432 square centimeters of cooking area across two shelves for multi-level grilling. Alongside the main grill, the unit integrates a Sizzle Zone infrared side burner at 25.5 centimeters, an integrated rotisserie positioned above the grill area, and a temperature gauge with controls for precise flame management. The modular island itself functions as a full outdoor countertop, with cupboard storage below and worktop space for food preparation, built from galvannealed steel for weather durability. The design logic of the Oasis 106 is consolidation. The Oasis 106 consolidates outdoor cooking equipment by integrating the grill, rotisserie, side burner, and storage into a single, space-efficient unit. The appeal of that consolidation is straightforward for anyone who has worked with a standalone barbecue, a separate prep table, and a side burner that never quite fits where needed. The Napoleon Oasis 106 is available now at napoleon.com for £6,599.99.

While American coffee chains were busy adding matcha lattes to their menus with varying degrees of seriousness about what actually goes into one, Nana's Green Tea was quietly building Japan's most significant matcha cafe brand. Founded in Tokyo in 2001, the chain now operates around 80 locations across Japan and has an established presence in Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It has just opened its first flagship in the United States, in Pasadena, California, with locations in Boston, Idaho, and Northern California confirmed to follow. The sourcing separates Nana's Green Tea from the broader matcha trend that has taken hold globally. The chain uses exclusively matcha from Yamamasa Koyamaen, a tea producer based in Uji, the city south of Kyoto that has been producing Japan's finest matcha since the Kamakura period and whose history we have covered in detail previously on Style Essentials. Yamamasa Koyamaen's history extends back to the Edo period, making it one of the oldest and most respected names in Japanese tea production. Other Japanese teas on the menu, including genmaicha and hojicha, are sourced from Baisa Nakamura, a specialist tea supplier with its own deep roots in Japanese tea culture. The sourcing is not incidental to the brand. It is the brand. The menu reflects the full breadth of Japanese cafe culture rather than reducing it to a single drink. Matcha appears across lattes, soft serve, ice cream, and elaborate layered parfaits of the kind that have defined Japanese cafe dessert culture for decades but remain genuinely difficult to find outside Japan. The matcha mochi parfait layers matcha jelly, vanilla soft serve, corn flakes, shiratama mochi, matcha ice cream, red bean paste, and whipped cream into a single glass. The hojicha parfait follows the same architecture but substitutes hojicha for matcha throughout and uses warabi mochi, made from bracken starch rather than glutinous rice, in place of the shiratama. Selected locations also serve yoshoku dishes, the Japanese-Western hybrid cuisine that includes katsu curry served with miso soup. Nana's Green Tea currently has US locations in Seattle, New York City, Las Vegas, and Honolulu alongside the new Pasadena flagship. Further expansion is confirmed. Explore: nanasgreenteaus.com

Kess has arrived in the UK, and if you have been looking for a reason to finally edit down your makeup bag, this Berlin-born brand makes a convincing case for it. Founded in Germany's creative capital, the brand is built around multifunctional formulas that are designed to replace several products rather than add to the pile, with a minimalist design aesthetic that feels entirely at home in the current beauty conversation around doing less, better. The launch range covers the essentials without overreaching. The Blush and Glow Duo Stick is a double-ended customizable product where you select your two ends from blush, bronzer, highlighter, or a built-in brush, with a creamy formula that builds from sheer to more deliberate without patchiness. The CC Cream at SPF 30 works as a breathable base that focuses on evening out redness rather than creating an opaque layer over the skin, which for anyone who has spent years avoiding foundation for feeling too heavy will be a familiar brief. The Concealer Stick at SPF 20 is formulated with mineral zinc oxide for sun protection and antibacterial properties alongside brown algae extract for hydration, making it one of the more thoughtfully constructed concealers at its price point. The Jelly Treat Lip Oil rounds out the range with a high-shine finish delivered through a botanical oil blend of macadamia, jojoba, hibiscus, and sweet cherry that hydrates without the stickiness most glosses cannot seem to avoid. The full collection is available now at kessberlin.com with prices ranging from £11 to £26.