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Mar 30, 2024 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Amin Jaffer
My first true art experience occurred when, as a six-year-old, my mother took me to the muséee du Louvre in Paris. Armed with a camera – a gift for the occasion – I visited and captured what I thought were the most impressive works of art in the museum.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
gulfnews.com | Amin Jaffer
Many of the world’s best-known museums began as private initiatives driven by collectors with a philanthropic vision of bringing important works of art into the public domain. Among such institutions are the Getty Museum, the Guggenheim and Tate, the Whitney, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Kimbell, and the Menil and Frick Collections.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Amin Jaffer
As institutions that foster and display works of art, the recently opened Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art follow in a tradition of female cultural philanthropy, the most immediately recognizable example of which is perhaps that of Peggy Guggenheim. This photograph shows her, aged 63, in her palace in Venice surrounded by a few favourite works: an African sculpture, an Alexander Calder mobile, and Pablo Picasso’s 1937 painting On the Beach.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Amin Jaffer
Across cultures, the seats of royalty were made of the most precious materials possible. Foremost of these were gold and silver, whose colour and reflective properties likened them respectively to the sun and moon, endowing the thrones with notions of purity and sanctity.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Gautami Reddy |divya Thakur |Rashmi Haralalka |Amin Jaffer
Louis Vuitton Skin: Architecture Of LuxuryLouis Vuitton has teamed up with some of the world’s most talented architects, artists, and designers to create a global luxury “house”—quite literally. Brought together by noted architectural writer Paul Goldberger, this book looks at the fascinating designs of Louis Vuitton’s mesmerizing store fronts, from Paris to New York, Beijing to Doha.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar |divya Thakur |Rashmi Haralalka |Amin Jaffer
As someone who worked as a loco pilot for over thirty years, crisscrossing the length and breadth of the country, retirement served as a long-awaited homecoming for Joshy Ayyathuvalappil. "I knew I wanted to spend my post-retirement life with my family in a green and peaceful environment," says the 59-year-old Thrissur native. His calm demeanour, combined with a want to be close to nature, led him deeper and deeper into the Kerala hinterland.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Rohini Kejriwal |divya Thakur |Rashmi Haralalka |Amin Jaffer
An ongoing exhibition at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum celebrates the discovery of Andy Warhol’s seemingly lost textile designs from the 1950s and ’60s. A virtually undocumented but crucial aspect of the pop artist’s stylistic development is told through more than 40 newly discovered textiles, many of which have never been exhibited.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Ritupriya Basu |divya Thakur |Rashmi Haralalka |Amin Jaffer
There’s a sense of drama about Eeshaan Kashyap’s upcoming show in Mumbai. The chef and restaurateur’s pursuit of beauty led him to “Tablescape by Eeshaan”, a tableware brand he launched last year that has come to be known for its handcrafted objects that elevate daily rituals. His years-long explorations of form and materials culminates in this show in a dramatic play of textures and techniques.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Ritupriya Basu |divya Thakur |Rashmi Haralalka |Amin Jaffer
Manav Dhiman’s typefaces are so packed with personality, that you can almost imagine them to be people. Perhaps the reason they feel so familiar, and yet so fresh, is because Dhiman is constantly looking at the world around us for inspiration. The idea for a typeface could come from anywhere—“the LED boards on buses, or maybe some stencil type that I spotted on the side of an electric junction box,” says Dhiman.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Shweta Shiware |divya Thakur |Rashmi Haralalka |Amin Jaffer
Neeru Kumar the person, the weaver, and the textile artist are interchangeable identities. “I love the analogy,” Kumar says through a Zoom screen from her Vasant Vihar home in New Delhi. “I’ve been very good at weaving and using colours, and I’m passionate about textiles.
