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A workshop at Pepperfry Studio. In honour of World Environment Day the furniture brand best known for its remarkable delivery reach even in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, held a series of workshops across its studios in the big cities. In Pune, they organized a Funk the Junk session helmed by architects Ketaki and Veena.
Every year thousands of beautiful old furniture, decor pieces such as vintage lamps and light fixtures and old pieces dating back to pre-Colonial or Colonial days are trashed in India. Ironically, there’s a whole industry devoted to creating similar pieces from scratch, and there’s a huge revival of using these pieces […]
French colonies in India are characterised by their distinct architecture and furniture, and an air and feel quite different to the rest of India. Urban Ladder’s Mahé range of furniture has quite aptly captured the essence of this Indo-French look – with the wood and yellow finish that instantly brings […]
It’s my pleasure to acquaint you with the designs from UrbanLadder.com that caught my eye this month. It was time to refurbish the home, what with Diwali here, and the countdown to Christmas already begun! After much thought, I ruled against bespoke designs because of the time factor involved, and […]
1. Curved Sofa from Freedom Tree Freedom Tree is a gorgeous online store with the most beautiful selection of retro-lush pieces I have seen in a while! This Curved Sofa certainly called out to me. One look at it and I was in la-la land dreaming about the possibilities of […]
1. TUNI Mrinmayee founded TUNI – a venture that involves products made from hand woven and hand painted textiles. Her focus is to make art and weaves meet in a functional product. These pretty cushion covers from her new collection – Tribal Tales caught my eye! The artists from Orissa lend their skills to […]
Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen designed the famous 1960 showcase Royal Hotel, Copenhagen. Passionate to create the perfect hotel experience, he personally designed most of the hotel’s iconic furniture, including the legendary Egg™ chair (in 1958). Very few designs stand the test of time. The Egg Chair has! Paying […]
The guest house is decorated in a fuss-free, minimalist style, with lovely pieces of furniture and accessories that are functional yet decorative.
When designer Jaya Peter of Livinart wrote in to me with photographs of their latest low budget project, I was intrigued. To add to the thrill, the owner of this loft house in Madh Island is fantasy writer Samit Basu (author of The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore’s Secret and The […]
Imagine walking into a room and being pleasantly assaulted with color where you least expect it – not on the walls, or the accessories, not on the curtains or on the upholstery, but on the furniture itself! While most hardwood furniture comes in varying shades of brown, one particular company […]
