Warm and Glamorous

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By Marina Correa

Photography: Courtesy the architect

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Using smart features in camouflaging imperfections; extracting the best usage of space with built-in storage; doubling up functions and exploiting niches to distil maximum benefit – are some brilliant ideas employed in handling a tight volume and unconventional contours for a young couple’s cocoon in Assam…

Festive Styling

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By Udita Chaturvedi

Photography: Courtesy Ashley Rebello & World Wide Web 

Celebrity Fashion Designer Ashley Rebello

What you wear on special occasions, such as festivals or family celebrations, is just as integral as the rituals and customs associated with the occasion itself… This festive season, Style Guru Ashley Rebello recommends…

This Diwali, Do-it-Yourself

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By Udita Chaturvedi

Photography: Courtesy The Wishing Chair

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With Diwali just around the corner, we catch up with a home décor store to find out how you can brighten up your home this season in a most innovative, beautiful and easy DIY manner.

“Royalty in Simplicity”

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By Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy the experts

Image: Courtesy Superb Wallpapers

It is celebration time. You want your home to sparkle, look different, a show-stopper of sorts.  IAnD spoke to some experts from across the country to bring you myriad ideas of how you can achieve ‘royalty in simplicity’ and make your home a beautiful place to celebrate happiness.  

Bridal Couture

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By Team IAnD

Photography: courtesy the designer

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Every girl fervently desires to be the cynosure of all eyes on her wedding day. Celebrity fashion designer and stylist, Ashley Rebello tells us how he transforms the most ordinary looking Jane into Juliet...

Style & Substance

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By Marina Correa

Photography: Courtesy the architect

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“I would not exist if I wasn’t an architect,” is a dramatic statement that best describes Priyanka Pradeep, principal architect, PS Design. With design being intrinsic to her persona, she transforms ordinary spaces into plush environments through her keen sense of aesthetics and style...

Interiors & Fashion – the overlap!

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By Savitha Hira

Photography: Courtesy the architect

  

Synergies! The entrance to Ar. Saket Sethi's office

This is the story of two successful professional synergies – that of an architect and a fashion designer...

Wrap to Win - Online Contest

As our contest is 'live', we give you a small brief on how to submit your entry... 

Pre-Diwali Special - an Overview

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With Diwali – the festival of lights just around the bend, there is a flurry about an annual spring clean routine, wads of shopping money to be splurged, warmth in interactions and a wait for that one big festive celebratory mood that pervades everything around us.

India Pavilion at LDF13 – the first milestone

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By Team IAnD

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Anything new has its hiccups and halos. We bring you a low down on our very first international event – the India Pavilion at LDF2013, and solicit your best wishes in helping us take larger steps in this direction of fostering Indian art and design on the international platform…

Emerging Indian Artists on the Horizon

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By Pari Syal

Photography: Courtesy the artists

Friends of Pradarshak, India Pavilion at LDF13 

Five Mumbai artists muster up their best foot forward for an international showing as part of the India Pavilion at Southbank Centre during the London Design Festival 2013…

Questioning the status quo

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By Udita Chaturvedi
Photography: Courtesy Lalit Hira

 Concepts of Folding  Chair  &  Footstool at Indian Pavilion  LDF13

With over three decades of practice, interior and furniture designer Lalit Hira has exploited his creative skills in accomplishing challenging and meaningful designs around the world.

Serenading Nature

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By Udita Chaturvedi

Photography: Courtesy the designer

Yamin reflected in his Peack Console                                Photography: Paul Barnfather

Yamin Mustafa Mohiuddin is a self-taught interior architect and furniture designer, whose designs and creations reflect his passion and high quality standard so that “each piece is worth passing on for generations”.

Trailblazers from Rural India

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By Udita Chaturvedi

Photography: Courtesy NIF & IAnD

Mitticool fridge at India Pavilion LDF 2013

The National Innovation Foundation-India is an Indian government initiative to provide institutional support to grassroots green technology and to nurture innovators, who blend traditional knowledge with contemporary technology.

‘Chair’ man of Design

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By Udita Chaturvedi

Photography: courtesy Asad Firdosy Design

Banana Chair

Furniture designing did not happen by chance for Asad Firdosy. His ancestors were great furniture artists and Asad spent his childhood making wooden toys for himself.

‘India Pavilion’ at the London Design Festival 2013

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By Team IAnD

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The ‘India Pavilion’ is all set to showcase at the London Design Festival 2013 with a small, rich talent base of grassroots innovators, furniture designers and fine artists…

RESCOM Summit – Event Report

By Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy IDE Global

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IAnD has been the media partner for IDE Global's interior and architectural summits twice over and has been watching the professionalism of this B2B platform reaching out to cross-sections of the building industry across India...

RESCOM Summit 2013

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As Online Media Partners for the RESCOM Summit 2013, India Art n Design visits the philosophy of the IDE brand of B2B sales and marketing, bringing you an exclusive preview of well-placed architects / designers attendees, speakers and more…

Calling Indian Artists & Designers

On behalf of Designers Block UK, India Art n Design - Ezine for Lifestyle, Art & Design, invites applications from Indian Artists & Designers to participate in the India Pavilion being hosted at Southbank Centre as part of London Design Festival 2013

23 Marina, Dubai

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By Savitha Hira

Photography: courtesy Architect Hafeez Contractor    

23 Marina, the exclusive waterfront address overlooking the azure blue waters of the man-made Marina Waterfront in Dubai, was until August 2012, considered the world’s tallest residential tower at 392m...