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ELLE DECOR India
25th anniversary issue COVER
guest edited by Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Who owns a palace?

The Mullicks of the elusive Marble Palace in Kolkata open doors for their home to be documented for first time

Photograph by Sunhil Sippy. Produced by Mrudul Pathak Kundu & Shriti Das

ELLE DECOR India
25th anniversary issue
guest edited by Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Adda at a pharmacy with Dr Devi Shetty

At Butto Kristo Paul’s bonedi bari in Kolkata, an interview with the renowned doctor reveals the intersection of community, faith and healing

Photograph by Anirban Mitra. Produced by Mrudul Pathak Kundu & Shriti Das

ELLE DECOR India
25th anniversary issue
guest edited by Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Worldly tastes of Indian royalty

Through ambitious commissions, Indian royalty shaped how European maisons viewed luxury from Rolls-Royce to Cartier to Ferragamo

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Nipa Doshi:
The India Within

What does feminism and design have in common? The EDIDA winning founder of Doshi Levien speaks
with Namrata Dewanjee on the culture of praxis

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Sangath: Shadow Transcripts in Ahmedabad

What is architecture? In this Ahmedabad home,
Khushnu Panthaki and Sonke Hoof of Studio SANGATH draft a dialogue on art, memory and the role of inhabitation

Does colour have a gender? | ELLE DECOR India

Don’t you miss the simple times when the blue room was for the boys and pink for the girls? Yeah, neither do we. The world still clutches onto myths — Zodiac signs, online diagnoses and gender as a binary. But design is above all that, or is it? From John Ruskin’s fixation with "pure white" to Corbusier’s polychromatic theory, design has always had an unhealthy obsession with colour

Chandigarh:
City Beautiful, City Perfect
| ELLE DECOR India

Often the most flattering albeit low-brow compliment you can bestow on any Indian city is that it “does not look Indian at all.” Blame it on our collective colonial hangover or an acquired taste for all things European and exotic. Noor Dasmesh Singh unpacks how despite its gridlines, Chandigarh does not fit into a box

Bangalorean’s guide to 12 cafes almost as good as filter kaapi | ELLE DECOR India

As fresh-faced (read: underage) college students in Garden City, our eyes were firmly fixed on the pub scene. But as the semesters progressed, nights grew longer and our palates more nuanced, we realised how important it was to find the best coffee in Bengaluru

In the studio of Architecture Brio | ELLE DECOR India

In a deliberate repudiation of tabula rasa, Architecture BRIO instead chooses to occupy a half-century-old garment mill in Worli, overlaying their distinct imaginations onto the memories of Mumbai’s industrial past

Priti Singh For AD ASH_0216 Shot by Ashish Sahi (1).webp

Like a modern royal: Inside 6 of the most opulent homes in India | Architectural Digest India

We take you on a tour of 6 homes in India that are dripping with extravagance, grandeur, and tradition, blended seamlessly with modern amenities and luxuries. Prepare to be mesmerized by the symphony of history and culture that resonates within these magnificent sanctuaries.

Neelkanth Chhaya on what design taught him | ELLE DECOR India

“When I go into the classroom, will I be able to hold my head high? Or will I have to lie to my students that I take great care in design and then criticise their projects?” asks Professor Neelkanth Chhaya.

Tom Dixon: The musings of the maverick designer | ELLE DECOR India

“What would you be, if not a designer?” “Lost,” replies Tom Dixon in a poignant indication of the relentless mind of a maverick thinker. He is the founder and creative director of his eponymous brand, but is a man of few words, choosing instead to speak volumes in between lines and through his work.

Art Dubai explores
belonging in the Global South | ELLE DECOR India

“Where are you from?” If there is one question that you can ask someone who has moved cities that will almost guarantee a long heavy sigh followed by an even longer soliloquy, it would be this. Art Dubai explores the idea of migration and belonging through distinct artistic narratives from the Global South

Altered States: Marco Brambilla's new exhibit | ELLE DECOR India

How do you remember the world? Marco Brambilla explores the chronology of memory through film and pop culture in his latest exhibition at The Biennale Architettura in Venice for HAUS by Golden Goose

Sharjah Biennial |
ELLE DECOR India

A conversation with curator Natasha Ginwala on how Sharjah Biennial reclaims artistic lineage and kindles intergenerational dialogue. With over 200 new commissions and nearly 200 participants, the Biennial unfolds as a collective narration. Natasha describes the title as “an active gesture. It pursues doing rather than postulating,” a modality that insists on “looking back, inwards and across, instead of turning away”

In conversation with Nisha Mathew and Soumitro Ghosh |ELLE DECOR India

Democracy, like design, is informed by practice. Three decades after meeting at CEPT, Nisha Mathew and Soumitro Ghosh continue to question architecture’s boundaries and place people at its core

Namrata Dewanjee

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