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Artist Aarti Karwayun Chawda India’s rich Moghul heritage has often been depicted and resurrected in modern day art forms, decor ideas and even in our clothes. Bangalore-based artist Aarti Karwayun Chawda is also deeply influenced by Moghul art, architecture and styles. She grew up in Jaipur. “I studied art in […]
There’s suddenly been a surge in home decor sites in India, and while they are all good, most sites lack originality and style. I recently chanced upon HouseProud.in, and it made me sit up and say, “Now, this one’s different!”. Have you seen it yet? Owned by Sanvari Alagh Nair, […]
I’m sure you must have met Mr. Prick, Mr. Mind It, Mr. Big Head, Mr. T. Ray, Mr. Elevate and Mr. Striptease before. They are of course Toy Designer/ Play Strategist (how cool!) Suhasini Paul’s little band of house assistants. Here they are, in case you haven’t met them! Now […]
One look at Punchi’s work and I was floored! Terracotta, ceramics, fabric and bamboo decorated with stunning intricate Warli, Madhubani, Pueblo, Aboriginal Dot paintings – all beautiful tribal arts from India and around the world. I had never seen work like this before. I didn’t waste time connecting with her, […]
Coffee pot art, anyone? De-cluttering seems to be the mantra these days…and in our home, S is someone who follows it to the T and I think twice, thrice and sometimes more than that before I throw away things. I don’t mind clearing out unwanted stuff, but even as I […]
It’s strange how we notice things only when we want to….my new found love for all things clay makes me sit up and notice anything that spells pottery these days. That’s how I bumped into an upcoming artist Sharada Gopalan, after reading a feature in a popular newspaper. Sharada decided […]
Ahmedabad-based Mira Malhotra is an artist cum graphic designer. Young, and studying at NID, her designs are already quite sharp, with the promise of a great deal of interesting work coming out of her studio in the future. Watch out for this spunky gal, she is surely going to go […]
I just fell in love with these cartoons on pebbles that I stumbled upon at purplehomes, another interior related blog. I knew I had to feature this artist and his work on The Key Bunch. Sushil Bhasin is a multimedia cartoonist whose work has been published in various publications and […]
Life partners One needs guts to walk away from the comfort zone and take a risk to follow your passion and Sujata Tibrewala, a self taught Bangalore based artist has done just that….. chucking up her cushy job as an engineer to take a plunge into the artistic world. […]
Kalyani Ganapathy has some really special designs at her studio Kye (meaning “hand” in Kannada, and I suspect it’s a play on the alphabets in her name as well!) in Chennai. When I looked at her work, I absolutely loved it. But when I delved deeper and realized that each […]
