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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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...
7 art deco restaurants in Mumbai that channel Jazz Age decadence
In Mumbai, art deco occupies a space of comfortable ubiquity. You needn’t be a design expert or an art historian; simply by existing in the city, through...
This 60,000-square-foot antique furniture store is Byculla’s best kept secret
In the leafy neighbourhood of Byculla, removed from the art deco stretches across South Mumbai, an unassuming bylane leads you into a pocket of the city...
Type designer Tanya George looks at the art deco in Mumbai’s signs and fonts
From Mumbai’s colourful Colaba to bustling Bandra streets, you are likely to cross paths with type designer Tanya George. TypeWalk, her walking tour, leads a...
Atul Kumar, founder of the Art Deco Mumbai Trust, on documenting the city’s design heritage
A commerce graduate from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, Kumar spent over a decade with the Tatas before establishing his own financial advisory...
Art deco, the international architectural movement that shaped Bombay
For the last 80 years, these buildings have formed the backdrop to our lives. That is why, perhaps, they have, for the most part, gone unnoticed. They were,...
Mumbai Gallery Weekend opens to a city primed for market ascendancy
“Mumbai is upgrading” read the signboards girding some of the 10,000-or-so active construction sites across India’s financial capital. But as the 12th edition...
A new restaurant in Mumbai’s art district plays with colour and texture
Ensconced inside a heritage structure in Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda precinct, Plural is a newly launched contemporary Southeast Asian restaurant founded by first-time...
New Delhi’s India Art Fair will expand to Mumbai in 2025
South Asia’s largest commercial art event, the India Art Fair (IAF) in New Delhi, will launch an offshoot next year in Mumbai. Named the India Art Fair...
