Avantika Shankar

1 month ago | thenodmag.com | Avantika Shankar

My first experience of Milan Design Week is a traffic jam on the way from Malpensa Airport to my hotel in downtown Milan. The driver of the cab assures me that pileups “only happen during Design Week”. Later, as we’re passing through the residential portions of the city, he tells me how the city government has stopped cutting some of the grass in the public parks to promote biodiversity.

2 months ago | ad-italia.it | Avantika Shankar |Ishita Sitwala

Una villa in India multigenerazionale rivisita lo stile del Gujarat con un tocco Mid-Century. C’è una sensazione particolare che alcune case sono in grado di evocare, in particolare ai Tropici e soprattutto a metà giornata, quando il sole è luminoso ma ancora morbido, le pressioni della vita quotidiana sembrano lontane e ogni porta chiusa sembra portare direttamente a Narnia.

2 months ago | admagazine.com | Avantika Shankar |Corina Mendoza

El estilo orgánico puede ser tan cálido como lujoso. Hay una sensación especial que algunas casas son capaces de evocar, sobre todo en los trópicos y concretamente en las horas centrales del día, cuando el sol brilla pero de algún modo sigue siendo suave, las presiones de la vida cotidiana parecen lejanas y cada puerta cerrada parece que podría llevar directamente a Narnia.

2 months ago | admagazine.fr | Avantika Shankar |Ishita Sitwala

En Inde, cette villa aux accents solaires est signée MuseLab. Certaines maisons dégagent une atmosphère particulière, surtout sous les tropiques, en plein cœur de la journée. Le soleil brille d’une douceur inattendue, les tracas du quotidien s’estompent et chaque porte close semble pouvoir s’ouvrir sur Narnia.

2 months ago | vogue.in | Avantika Shankar

Last year, Amit Malhotra was all set to move to the mountains when his long-time partner Saurabh Kumar, who prefers to go by Sohrab, proposed that they start a fashion brand together. Amit, who worked as a book designer for 17 years, had just quit his job as a design manager at HarperCollins in the hope of pursuing a slow life. But the siren call of fulfilling his lifelong dream of working in fashion was too enchanting to ignore. “I said yes,” says the Delhi-based designer.