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Sep 4, 2024 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Arshia Dhar
It’s a nine foot-tall monolith—befittingly named the Grand Armoire—clad in steely metal that opens up to reveal an unexpected pop of red and rows of shelves that don’t immediately meet the eye, but are cleverly concealed next to modern hanging systems. When UK-based interior designer Lidia Denino approached Kolkata-based furniture brand Scarlet Splendour, founded by Ashish Bajoria and Suman Kanodia, she was dreaming in art deco, which inspired the brand’s debut Vanilla Noir collection from 2015.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
hindustantimes.com | Arshia Dhar
Listicle: 10 tasting menus to sample the best of the best Aug 23, 2024 09:24 AM IST When you can’t decide what to eat, wear loose pants and pick any of these 10 degustation menus across India
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Arshia Dhar
18 hours agoThe Vulcan printer can make a single-story home in about 3 weeks. As with any desktop 3D printer, the Vulcan printer pipes layer by layer to build an object — except this printer is more than 45 feet (13.7 m) wide, weighs 4.75 tons and prints residential homes. This summer, the robotic printer from …
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Arshia Dhar
This home was born of a dream that architect Sumanth Ram Sriram, based in Madurai, had dreamt up when he was a student of architecture. His father had started working on its bones back in 2010; by the time Sriram graduated college in 2018, he had already started to fill in with paint.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
htsyndication.com | Arshia Dhar
Posted On: 2024-08-09 Posted By: Arshia Dhar Health & Lifestyle Technology Cities International Hindustan Times India, Aug. 9 -- France and Switzerland over meringue. Who knew that egg whites beaten with sugar would be in the centre of a long-running turf war? Both nations claim to have invented it.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
hindustantimes.com | Arshia Dhar
Listicle: 10 dishes that have sparked local and global food wars Aug 09, 2024 09:26 AM IST Two nations fight to claim jollof rice. One dessert nearly set off a war. 10 dishes we just can’t stop fighting over
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Arshia Dhar
1 hour agoCorrespondent Ronny Chieng shows how the former president isn't the genius he claims to be. Donald Trump frequently brags about how smart he thinks he is, but “Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng isn’t buying it after the former president’s bizarre claims about Vice President Kamala Harris’ race …
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Arshia Dhar
Architecture and design writing occupies its own space and import in the world of non-fiction, even journalism if you will. It straddles several fields—of academia, some clinical fact finding, but most importantly, a lyrical cadence that brings seemingly inanimate spaces and objects to life. It’s what sets this form of writing apart, making it a genre unto itself that many consider easy, but very few learn to master.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Arshia Dhar
There’s something about F. N. Souza’s art that shocks, amuses, and even challenges one’s senses all at the same time—in a sensory overdrive, if you will. The dust jacket of this monograph—titled F. N. Souza: The Archetypal Artist published by Niyogi Books—laying bare the life and mind of one of India’s greatest modernists by art scholar Janeita Singh carries a quote by the father of analytical psychology Carl Jung.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
architecturaldigest.in | Arshia Dhar
When textile designer Juhi Pandey is asked where she is from, she takes several moments to answer. “My roots are in east Uttar Pradesh, but I have never lived there! I grew up in parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka, owing to my father’s job, and have been all over the place ever since,” she says. However, she knows for certain that she has always been a rebel—a streak she says she inherited from her family, in which everyone defied odds to live their dreams.
