This new festival honours Mumbai and Miami’s art deco heritage
Mumbai and Miami are kindred spirits—tropical cities boasting a vast coastline, a continuously evolving skyline and a shared architectural heritage in art...
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Jay Mehta’s ancestral home in Porbandar is an art deco kaleidoscope of memories
In the late 1920s, he began building a textile mill in Porbandar even as the Mehta export interests stretched from Africa to Japan. The selected site for his...
Shivaji Park stands as a humble cornerstone of Mumbai’s vibrant art deco landscape
In the wake of the plague and a rapidly changing cityscape, the priorities of Bombay’s people began to shift. As the elite gravitated towards the south—to the...
Want to add some Art Deco into your wardrobe? Here’s some inspiration
In fashion, the imagery that Art Deco conjures up is of straight lines, geometrical patterns such as the chevron print or scallops, impeccable symmetry and of...
Raw Mango’s Sanjay Garg on how art deco motifs reflect in the brand’s textile lexicon
For Raw Mango loyalists, the allure lies as much in the sublime brocades as in the cultivated eye of its founder, Sanjay Garg—an antiquarian attuned to the...
Celebrating 100 years of Art Deco: India’s unique architectural legacy
Meet the people battling to save this vanishing legacy A hundred years ago, Paris hosted the 1925 Exposition that gave Art Deco its name. The movement would...
Inside Morvi palace, one of the purest representations of the art deco style in India
The delight is in the details. In an office stuffed with books, Manharsinh, the palace’s caretaker since 1981, pulls out a docket titled An Estimate of...
Exploring the art deco interiors of lawyer Shirin Bharucha’s home in Mumbai
Spread across three bedrooms, a drawing room, a dining room, a kitchen and a room for domestic staff, the apartment is generous in its sprawl as well as a...
Art Deco at 100 – The Times of India
Meet the people battling to save this vanishing legacy A hundred years ago, Paris hosted the 1925 Exposition that gave Art Deco its name. The movement would...
The Hanut Singh jewellery line is forever inspired by the timeless art deco style
The Art Deco movement slays me. Without any doubt, it was and remains the golden age of design. Better known as Jazz Moderne or Moderne in the 1920s and ’30s,...
