Home Gardens in the City
Home gardens are wonderful things. Modest or grand, they're places of calm retreat- patches of land that connect us to the earth and a natural way of living. Featured here is a back garden in...
Natural Living
Lost Mountain Arts
In the peak of summer, one is always drawn to the cooling, calm embrace of the mountains. Tall pines, grand oak trees lopped by sturdy hill-women and the awe of snow peaks on the horizon....
5 Ways to Create a Calm Home
Staying calm when all about you is rushed is a well practiced art. The very nature of construction, design & decoration is anything but calm, particulraly if you have a tough client. And while there’s...
Self-Contentment
I find myself constantly removed from the fast banter of city living and placed in remote towns, where a natural lifestyle has been practised, with few alterations, for centuries. Cities usually instill desire and the mountains for...
The Handmade- Narrator of Silent Tales
Creating pieces by hand evokes joy and wonder—we exclaim at the extraordinary simplicity and complexity interwoven in crafts that are “handmade”. In our living spaces, be they homes or offices, anything handmade tends to become...
Traditional, Muted Hues
Our work conveys tradition into living spaces with a seamless array of thought and emotion. Traditional art, textile and craft blend comfortably with the modern and rest easily with cross cultural influences in every home,...
Solitude
Solitude: Some words tell stories without sentences. Like the crumbling mansion in the midst of high rise apartments; Lime plaster peeling, colours painted and re-painted to hide it's wrinkles. With the patio chairs so resolute in their standing, Moving them...
Indian Winter Palettes
It's a cold, misty, grey day-- the kind that's perfect for bed. But, there's work to be done and calls to be taken, bills to be paid and mails to be written. So, harkening back...
Mornings, Natural Inspiration, Interiors
No two mornings are the same, even here in the Himalayas where nothing seems to happen & where one day merges seamlessly into another. The day starts with a walk leading to explorations and forest...
Lessons in simplicity: Sohra
Quietly he lives, quietly he dies, Amidst the wilderness -The Green Grass, U Soso Tham WRITTEN BY SUGANDHA DAS AND SHIVANI DOGRA. Smaller places with slower paces seem to disappear into the rural fog that occupies them in India....
Tea & A Delhi Winter
In the Northern Indian plains, winter is the change we seek from the harsh winds of summer— the sultry breeze giving way to a frost-reminiscent lull in the air, the stark blue skies almost white from...
A Home In Delhi
We are SO excited to have found a place on Design Sponge again! Featured is a space where the clients’ requirements and our design met halfway for a success project. As a designer, I've met a number of...