Nilaya Anthology, India’s newly opened luxury design mecca

Nilaya Anthology, India’s newly opened luxury design mecca

“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 the […]

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Sarmaya debuts on Mumbai’s Heritage Mile

Sarmaya debuts on Mumbai’s Heritage Mile

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 archive […]

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

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

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 in […]

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