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EVERYONE has only good things to say about 2020. As far as expectations go, we’re looking at being delivered the moon on a silver platter. That’s how big and beautiful the new year is being touted to be. And why not! 2018 and 2019 have both been moth

A first-time collaboration between Theodóra Alfreðsdóttir and Tino Seubert, Corrugation Lights are a play on the decades-old furniture making technique of veneer forming. The lighting piece has two elements – a scalable hanging light and a wall sconc

Durian is taking its pioneering interior design solutions straight to customers’ homes with a new set of doors and door frames. Durian is targeting the retail segment and its large customer base across the country, with doors in a wide selection of m

The residents of Delhi NCR have been battling polluted air for many months now, and studies have shown that Delhiites may live 17 years less than their expected life span. To help appease the situation somewhat, Amit and Britta Knobel Gupta of Studio

Let’s start with something I know you really enjoy…tell us about the places that your work has taken you to. Brinda Somaya: Well, I have worked primarily in India…every single part of India, from Gangotri in the Himalayas, right down to the souther

Perhaps 9/11 was a definitive moment in architect Vishaan Chakrabarti’s career. He was an associate partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merill, fully licensed as an architect, when the tragic events of 9/11 unfolded. “I felt a call to public service, which

Once an architecture student at CEPT Ahmedabad, Arpan Shah set up Modo Designs almost 17 years ago as a firm dedicated towards creating progressive and appropriate architecture for residential, commercial, institutional and corporate projects. The aw

THIS home is an interesting result of the post-retirement plans of a couple from South India’s Kurnool district. Wanting to be close to their extended family in Hyderabad, the couple moved base to the bustling city, only to find that their city home

FOUR separate apartments came together in this massive project by Vineet Vora and Prachi Parekh Vora of Studio UF+O, to create one four-bedroom family apartment for three generations of residents in a Mumbai high-rise. The ensuing home has a spacious

DURING winters, one can put down hill skis and reach the local market in Fåvang to go grocery shopping, returning home to this cabin using lifts. On cross country skis, one can connect to hundreds of kilometers of trails, reaching country lodges to r

SIX people, three generations, four bedrooms and one large fortress - this home in Nashik may have been a mammoth project, but it’s about much more than its size. Designed by Shruti Dabir of Atelier Landschaft, the house sits on a new plot in a resid

PORT Muziris, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel by Marriott International in Kochi, has a fictional heroine named Lila. The director of this project, who oversaw everything from the theme to the build, is Abhishek Mathur of Studio HBA, who cleverly used the

WHEN the 85 employees of jewellery company CaratLane were asked by members of 1405 Design Studio about the elements they’d like in their new workspace, they gave a volley of answers - cosy corners, discussion and brainstorming zones, high tables, pho