Home & Design Trends

The origins of the late Alessandro Mendini’s Poltrona di Proust armchair date back to the year 1976, when he had the idea to design a ‘Proust fabric’ for Cassina. To bring this product to life, he began with heavy research into novelist Marcel Proust

Often, it’s the designers who think out of the box to design furniture that pre-empts users’ ever-changing needs. With the Luftikus bookshelf and to/o side table by German studio AJML’s Abdalla Mohamed and Jannes Lüdtke, it’s the users who need to do

Things change…and how! In 2009, when WWM announced the launch of Home & Design Trends, I distinctly remember wondering why launch HDT when we have GoodHomes. Why have two magazines in the same spectrum? I vividly remember how the entire GoodHomes tea

Supernova by Orvi is a timeless line of handcrafted surfaces that display a meld of metal and stone. The tiles are available in materials like marble, limestone and quartzite, and are cloaked in hand beaten sheets of brass, copper and aluminium in a

Take a set of children’s play blocks and blow them up to human scale – that’s probably the best way to describe the City Blocks benches stationed in the city of London. The designers looked at the function of a bench and put that together with the pl

Conceptualised as the hub of the ‘Garden City of the 21st century’, the Karle Town Centre (KTC) designed by UNStudio is currently under construction in Bengaluru. Known as the Silicon Valley of India due to the presence of a large number of IT compan

It may take two to tango, but for New Delhi based light designer Nikhil Paul, it just took one namesake collection to leave a mark on the global design map. When his first collection of Tango lights made their way to the Internet, little had he antic

At the intersection of the holy trinity – innovation, technology and design – is where you will find British designer Benjamin Hubert. His award-winning firm Layer works across several disciplines to provide design-led solutions for complex market pr

Design has always been part of Anchal Khosla’s life – whether it’s during her early years spent painting or sketching, or her five-year stint working in production design, and more specifically, her consequent move to New York to study at Parsons Sch

Parul and Mooshir Vahanvati’s Rayden Design Studio has always had a singular design ethos of creating everyday objects that lie primly at the intersection of art, design and technology. Simple, functional and intelligent, their product lines comprise

Before Nikhil Mohan and Shabna Nikhil of Thought Parallels Architecture started with the project monikered ‘Lightness of Being’, they had several parameters to consider. The client brief was easy – the family wanted a home that was private yet had a

For this small family apartment, designer Ali Baldiwala decided to bring the tribe home. The clients, besides their desire for an aesthetically pleasing, open and bright home, expressed a liking for varied design elements that didn’t stick to any one

A couple of years before Hameeda Sharma began work on this sea facing property in Vizag, it was a 4,000 sqft home that wasn’t truly capitalising on its site. Post a transformational change in size, layout and elevation, the house now has an open, min

In the internationally recognised arts and design destination of Los Angeles, APPARATUS design studio has opened its third location to follow its headquarters in New York City and an outpost in Milan. Founded by Gabriel Hendifar and Jeremy Anderson i

Adjoining the Jaddaf Waterfront sits a series of low-rising blocks seemingly shimmering in the desert sun. This pristine white building is UAE’s newest cultural hub – Jameel Arts Centre. UK based architecture firm Serie Architects led by Christopher

Gone are the days when an office was destined to be a drab, dull-looking space that warranted nothing but the most basic necessities for its inhabitants. With work roles changing every day, there is a heavy need for workspaces to match pace. For one

Kampai in Delhi’s affluent Aerocity sector almost seems like it’s raising a toast to visitors. The name, meaning ‘cheers’ in Japanese, defines the minimal interiors where patrons can experience the authentic Japanese Izakaya dining experience. Put to

Designer, hotelier and entrepreneur Jimmy Mistry set up Della Tecnica, now known as Della Group, in 1991, designing mass townships and architecture projects. Slowly and steadily, the company expanded into multiple verticals like luxury resorts, adven

Dedicated entirely to Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, this exhibition is awash with gold, which acts as the backdrop for about 60 art exhibits. His signature flower icon and superflat style comes across in every piece on display, giving an insight