Visual Arts for Classes & Masses – KGAF2015!

By Savitha Hira

Photography: Courtesy the artists & KGAF 2015

The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2015

The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2015 (KGAF) seems bigger and better! Bigger - not in area but in volume; in the core essentials that make up a holistic exchange platform...

Impelling Interior Design Trends for 2015!

IAnD Exclusive

By Beverly Pereira

Photography: Courtesy The Orange Lane

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Shabnam Gupta, Principal Designer of the award-winning The Orange Lane design studio takes you through some upcoming trends in the interior design world, while sharing tips on how to weave them into any space…

Colours of the Seasons: Forecast 2015

IAnD Exclusive

By Savitha Hira

Photography: Courtesy Akzo-Nobel

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Interior Designer, Colour Expert & Trend Analyst, Latika Khosla suggests that as ‘warmth’ and ‘sharing’ re-enter our lifestyles and personas, the earthy Copper-Orange is the dominant hue for 2015! 

Cerafest 2014 - Celebrating Studio Pottery

By Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy the Artists

Shalan Dere with some of her work

Attempting to give Studio Pottery its rightful place in the burgeoning visual art scenario, Mumbai organizes its first-ever Ceramic Festival bringing together 22 Mumbai-based studio potters to amaze audiences with their skills and wares...

London Design Festival 2013 – First-person Insight!

By Team IAnD

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IAnD brings you a candid insight on the goings-on at the London Design Festival 2013…

Vanishing Homes of India

By Savitha Hira

                    The Inviting Cover                                      A house in Pallathur village of Chettinad  

“Vanishing Homes of India” is a monochromatic photographic monologue that peeks into social-architectural history and rekindles one’s reverence for one’s roots…

Architecture & Identity

By Savitha Hira

Photography: Courtesy: IAB

Dr B V Doshi delivering the icon lecture 

‘Architecture & Identity’ – the thematic of 361⁰ Conference, Mumbai, India hosted by Jasubhai Media was a platform for dialogue on architecture and fostered some thought-provoking exchange in some critical concerns of the discipline.

Rekha Rodwittiya’s Matters of the Heart

By Jigna Padhiar

Photography: Courtesy Sakshi Gallery

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Revisiting histories, Indian artist Rekha Rodwittiya’s latest exhibition makes for apt social commentary in current times...

Bridal Couture

By Smita Singh

Photography: Courtesy IBFW

 

JJ Vayala Collection  @AVIBFW 2013

Known as one of the Big 4 fashion events in India, India Bridal Fashion Week (AVIBFW) that concluded in Mumbai two days ago was the place, where the latest in bridal couture was forecast...

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…

Winter/Festive Trends - India 2013

By Monica Mistry

Photography: Courtesy Lakme Fashion Week

LFW 2013 Collection

Every trend is a mirror of what society needs out of design. This season, there is a clear reflection of structured outfits, colour-blocking and the fusion of contemporary meets traditional.

IMARK - Where do we go from here?

By Udit Chaudhuri

Photography: Courtesy Imark Team, IDC

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India Design Mark is two batches old. Now India Inc must ask itself some tough questions…

Ar. Charles Correa - Exhibition at RIBA

By Team IAnD

 

Ar. Charles Correa

As part of the Out of India Season, RIBA presents the first major UK exhibition showcasing the work of renowned Indian architect Charles Correa. The exhibition is designed  by David Adjaye and curated by Dr. Irena Murray.

Dubai Art Fair

By Nikita Peer 
Photography: Courtesy the galleries

The Joy of Ahimsa, Takhat Vilas, Mehrangarh Fort Palace, Jodhpur.

Only 3 Indian art galleries participated in the Dubai Art Fair 2013(DAF). ‘Exceeding their expectations’, some claim to have ‘returned with empty crates’, citing a huge interest in Indian art from across the world... 

Trends from Lakme Fashion Week 2013

By Monica Mistry

Photography: Courtesy the designers

Payal Singhal's creation for LFW 2013

Lace and bright hues are the style notes from the recently concluded Lakme Fashion Week at Mumbai, India. 

India – Design Bound!

By Savitha Hira

Photography: Courtesy IDF 2013

India Design Forum 2013 Mumbai

With the India Design Forum 2013 summing up the design scenario in India as largely aware and progressive, does the overall picture necessitate the intervention of more such interactive platforms that can make design come of age?

Gurgaon: Shock & Awe

By Marina Correa

Photography: Courtesy the architects

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The soon-to-conclude Architectural exhibition Gurgaon Glossaries at the Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, has over the last fortnight stood ground as a serious stratum for discussions on urban developmental issues via its in-depth illustrative study of satellite city Gurgaon…

Of Cobwebs & Crossings

By Jigna Padhiar

Sketch Image of Untitled, (Cobweb/ Crossings)

Reena Kallat’s public art installation at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai weaves powerful stories of the metropolis in the fragile form of a cobweb.