Ballard Estate quietly preserves one of Mumbai’s last art deco petrol pumps
[ad_1] The service bay. The letter ‘S’ was recreated and replaced by the Sequeiras. The grillwork is indicative of the art deco style, with its blend of curved...
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This new festival honours Mumbai and Miami’s art deco heritage
[ad_1] Mumbai and Miami are kindred spirits—tropical cities boasting a vast coastline, a continuously evolving skyline and a shared architectural heritage in...
Exploring the art deco interiors of lawyer Shirin Bharucha’s home in Mumbai
[ad_1] 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...
7 art deco restaurants in Mumbai that channel Jazz Age decadence
[ad_1] 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,...
This 60,000-square-foot antique furniture store is Byculla’s best kept secret
[ad_1] 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
[ad_1] From Mumbai’s colourful Colaba to bustling Bandra streets, you are likely to cross paths with type designer Tanya George. TypeWalk, her walking tour,...
Atul Kumar, founder of the Art Deco Mumbai Trust, on documenting the city’s design heritage
[ad_1] A commerce graduate from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, Kumar spent over a decade with the Tatas before establishing his own financial...
Art deco, the international architectural movement that shaped Bombay
[ad_1] 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...
Mumbai Gallery Weekend opens to a city primed for market ascendancy
[ad_1] “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...
A new restaurant in Mumbai’s art district plays with colour and texture
[ad_1] Ensconced inside a heritage structure in Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda precinct, Plural is a newly launched contemporary Southeast Asian restaurant founded by...
