Nilaya Anthology, India’s newly opened luxury design mecca

[ad_1] “Nilaya Anthology is our version of the NCPA or NMACC,” explains Pavitra Rajaram, design director of Asian Paints, referencing Mumbai’s two major cultural institutions as a point of comparison to the company’s newly opened luxury design mecca in the heart of the city. It is being called the most ambitious interior design showroom in […]

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Sarmaya debuts on Mumbai’s Heritage Mile

[ad_1] In South Mumbai’s ‘Heritage Mile’, home to many colonial buildings, including the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus, there’s a hidden gem. It is Sarmaya’s new outpost, which opened last month on the second floor of the 146-year-old Lawrence & Mayo building in Fort. The 3,500 sq.ft. space, once home to a bank, now houses the decade-old hybrid museum’s […]

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Geopolitics in a rug | Pavitra Rajaram’s carpet collection for Jaipur Rugs

[ad_1] A carpet is not the first place you’d turn to for a lesson in modern geopolitics. Unless you’re looking at the Afghan war rug. Made in Sheberghan, a city in north Afghanistan, and Afghan settlements in Pakistan, these carpets — with motifs of tanks, artillery, machine guns: symbols of violence — began to appear […]

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