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Architectural Digest •

This jewellery store in Tamil Nadu's Pollachi feels more like an heirloom than a showroom

Architect Sowmya Kumar likes to see the glass half full. The trouble is, when it comes to her work, the founder of Coimbatore-based OWM Architecture can never quite resist filling it right to the brim. She slipped into this habit, almost irreverently, while designing Tvishi, a jewellery store in Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, repeatedly revisiting a scheme her client had already enthusiastically green-lit and returning with iteration after iteration—each more dazzling than the last. "There came a point w...
Architectural Digest •

Inside a multi-pavilion Surat home inspired by a grandson’s memory

Distil Surat designer Rahul Dholakia's memories of his grandmother down to their essence, and one scene remains: a mud chullah crackling in the courtyard of their ancestral home, bajra na rotla rising over the flame, and a young boy sitting close enough to carry the smell of smoke with him for years to come. The house itself wasn't remarkable. The memories it contained were. Dholakia grew up in a sprawling Gujarati family that now numbers more than 70 members. Business eventually took him around...
Architectural Digest •

This house in Kerala’s Idukki hills practically disappears into the landscape

More often than not, before he begins designing spaces in real life, architect Prabhul Mathew of Kottayam-based Mindspark Architects likes to create them in his head. Sometimes, these structures are large. Other times, small. Some have gabled roofs. Some, flat ones. But almost all of them, in one way or another, begin on reassuringly flat terrain. For Mathew, however, architecture in real life rarely begins with a predetermined idea of form. Instead, the terrain, climate, vegetation, light, and wind gradually shape the building over time. “The site decides what it needs,” says the architect, who worked alongside team member Shahana Salahudeen.
Architectural Digest •

The Homeowners' Favorite Room in This Napa House Is Actually Outside

For designer Rachel Vineberg Jones and her husband, Eric Jones, their latest chapter was one they hadn’t seen coming. It began with a prolonged hospital stay for their newborn son and continued with the purchase of a 3,000-square-foot home in Napa. “I remember looking around and saying to Eric, ‘There's something about this place—I think it's going to become important to us,’” says the founder of San Francisco–based design studio Vine Projects. At the time, the property offered more promise than...
The Local Project •

Rockpool House by Architecture Saville Isaacs and Madeleine Wood

Located in one of Avoca Beach’s most coveted pockets, the six-bedroom dwelling responds directly to its setting between bushland and ocean. About 90 minutes north of Sydney, the Central Coast enclave is known for its laid-back atmosphere and strong sense of community – qualities that shaped the home’s tone as much as its architecture. The project also carries personal significance for the owners, whose longstanding connection to the area informed the brief and inspired the home’s name, a referen...
The Local Project •

Angel Dream by Clint Nicholas Design

In Holmby Hills – one of Los Angeles’s most storied enclaves, tucked between Beverly Hills and Bel Air – the echoes of old Hollywood still linger. Known as part of the ‘Platinum Triangle’, the neighbourhood is defined by sweeping estates, tall hedges and quiet, tree-lined streets. It is the setting for a sprawling residence by Clint Nicholas Design, where a postcard-like European air meets contemporary family living. “It has this very established, romantic character,” says interior designer Clint Nicholas. “Holmby Park just nearby gives it this gentle connection to nature that really shaped how the clients wanted to live.”
The Local Project •

Wybalena by Ziegler

Conceived as a legacy project, the four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom home was envisioned as a place of permanence – one that could evolve with its owner over time. “The intention was to create something enduring,” says Todd Miller of Ziegler. “A home that responds to both the landscape and the rhythms of family life.” Set on a two-hectare site just two kilometres from Byron Bay, the design captures the full sweep of its surroundings, framing sunrise and sunset as daily rituals embedded wit...
Architectural Digest •

Built Around a Mango Tree, This Kerala Home Is a New Kind of Greenhouse

Architect Arjun Joshy, by his own admission, is a connoisseur of design and mangoes, in roughly equal measure. For this Kerala home in the Indian city of Thrissur, his first order of business was to save the mango tree at the center of the site.The homeowner, Sharan, is a software engineer who moved back to Kerala during the COVID-19 pandemic. The shift marked a quiet recalibration of pace and priorities. “My wife is a teacher, and we have two young boys. We are a family of six, living together...
Architectural Digest •

Inside a Bandra apartment designed for someone yet to arrive

An interior remodel, as any sage designer will tell you, can go one of two ways—“off-script or very off-script,” laughs interior designer Tejal Mathur, founder and principal of her eponymous Mumbai studio. Her latest project, a 2,000-square-foot apartment in Bandra, belongs firmly to the latter category. “After the first cut of the plan, the owners came back to us with a little surprise,” she continues. “They needed a full-fledged nursery…because, well, she was pregnant.” For Mathur and her team—designers Meha Jadeja, Gayatri Shinde, and Rizzanne Idnani—it meant going back to the drawing board. This time, with a crib in mind.
Architectural Digest •

In this multigenerational Mumbai home, everyday life finds its curve

Interior designer Dhvani Shah trusts her sixth sense—but over the years, she’s developed a seventh to ensure she always backs the sixth. “They called it the ‘sandwich strategy’,” laughs Shah, recalling her latest clients—a family of five, comprising a husband and wife, their five-year-old son, and the husband’s parents, who entrusted her with transforming their bare-shell, builder-grade apartment into a warm, multigenerational oasis.“Material selection was always a highlight because of Dhvani’s...
Livingetc •

[Print] Chennai: Quietly Does It

bove the dining table in
a Poes Garden, Chennai
home, floats a sculptural
light that looks like it’s
drifted in from a fairy tale.
Part chimney, part cloud
– entirely unfazed by the attention. Getting
it up there, though, required every bit of it.
As Amrita Thomas of Chennai-based Alara
Studio puts it, the piece by Arjun Rathi
arrived in bits, like an oversized jigsaw,
and had to be assembled on site with a fair
amount of coaxing – and, one imagines, a
few deep breaths. “When it finally came
together, there was a collective sigh of relief
– and the distinct sense that the room had
been waiting for it all along,” she says of the
installation.
The Local Project •

Maharam Showroom by Neil Logan

Historic buildings often carry a past that is as significant, if not more so, than their present. Maharam’s new Manhattan outpost at 257 Park Avenue South in Gramercy Park is a compelling example. The multi-brand showroom is a contemporary reimagining of the historic space by local architect Neil Logan, who is celebrated for his ability to revitalise buildings while preserving their defining character. True to Maharam’s signature approach, the aesthetic is immediately apparent: a soaring gallery offers a vantage point over a large library of textiles and leather, while warm, earthy display units in Douglas fir and marine plywood counterbalance the materials’ softness. One wall is transfor...
Architectural Digest •

This 4,500-square-foot Chennai penthouse reads like a riverfront reverie

The dining area is where the home allows itself a small flourish. The vaulted ceiling arches overhead, turning what could have been just another table-and-chairs situation into something with a bit more presence. The bedrooms, on the other hand, dial things down. The master suite is spacious but refreshingly uninterested in showing off. It’s layered with soft materials, muted tones, and the kind of light that makes you linger a little longer. The vaulted ceiling makes a reappearance here too, be...
The Local Project •

William White Emporium by Will Cooper

Long before the William White Emporium took physical form, it lived in Will Cooper’s imagination. Located at 325 Canal Street, the emporium is a wonderland of experiences offering a glimpse into Cooper’s childhood and, evidently, adult dreams. From garments and vintage curiosities to decadent espresso and freshly baked croissants, every corner brims with the brand’s whimsical spirit, where the unexpected feels effortlessly at home. Designed in a relaxed industrial-modern style, the space resembles a serene gallery: clean and white with shiplap walls and sleek metal racks displaying selections that rotate weekly to make room for new collaborators, objects and ideas.
Architectural Digest •

This quaint garden café in Bengaluru is housed in a 1980s Art Deco bungalow

Arched openings introduce a softness that offsets the otherwise straightforward layout, giving the rooms a slightly old-world lilt. “There was never a moment where we said, ‘let’s make this look a certain way,’” Shetty reflects. “It was more about allowing the materials to settle into themselves—and letting the space feel like it had aged into its current state.” Hovering above it all is a canopy of rain trees, easily the café’s most compelling feature. Their shifting shadows move across tables...
Architectural Digest •

This climate-responsive home in Hyderabad is designed to make A/C redundant

Architecture, as any architect will tell you, is in a constant state of reinvention. It tends to move forward—rarely backwards, and almost never in both directions at once. Hyderabad-based architects Vamshidhar Reddy and Mounica Reddy of Iki Builds, however, have never quite subscribed to that way of thinking. Their latest project sits right on that edge: a home in Hyderabad that looks like it belongs to the future, yet is rooted in the wisdom of the past.Built entirely by hand, the spaceship-li...
Domino •

This Circa-1883 Home Had Many Former Lives Before It Became the Coolest House on the Block

Chartres 1883, in Bywater, New Orleans, didn’t start out as a home—it started out as everything else. A hay and feed store. A grocery. A café. A soft drink shop. So when a fifth-generation local millworker and his wife spotted the property in 2022, they didn’t see a fixer-upper—they saw a charming piece of history begging for a second act. The couple fell hard—so much so that they bought the building without plans of ever living in it themselves.


Turns out, luck was on their side. The structu...
Architectural Digest •

Inside a 1,100-square-foot Mumbai apartment that runs on two time zones

They say opposites attract, but interior designers Disha Vakharia and Pria Kanakia of Mumbai-based Bear Spaces know firsthand that sometimes, so can distance. When it came to designing their latest labour of love, a 1,100-square-foot Mumbai apartment, they discovered their clients, Pradeep and Jyoti Shah, a savvy couple in their sixties, couldn’t be more different. One was cheerfully diurnal, the other unapologetically nocturnal, turning the brief into a deft exercise in negotiating two entirely...
Wallpaper* •

In Gujarat, two sapodilla trees shape an entire house

Architects Sönke Hoof and Khushnu Panthaki Hoof have an uncanny gift for noticing the almost invisible – that fleeting detail, or lack thereof, that others might overlook. Yet on a summer’s day not so many years ago, as they left the golden clamour of Ahmedabad, in the Indian state of Gujarat, for the languid green of its hinterland, they arrived at a site that appeared to offer almost nothing at all.Like many such plots on the city’s outskirts – some 30 to 40 minutes away, beyond the tightening...
The Local Project •

Brackenbury & Austin by Studio Shand

Shand committed himself to preserving the past, restoring original brick and timber wherever possible and crafting meticulous elements matching the building’s heritage where he could not. His rule for anything new was simple: it had to feel as though it had always belonged. The old guided the new, with colours, tones and textures – an earthy pastiche of red, yellow and brown – chosen to mirror history. Concrete grounds the lower level, while cork softens the mezzanine with its gentle grain and a...
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