Desert Greens
The grandeur and style of Shekawati's havelis have fascinated many. The words commending their beauty are profuse and yet more words in their praise on this blog entry would be unnecessary. Replacing words are pictures...
Heritage
Indian Style by Suzanne Slesin and Stafford Cliff
It's been a while since the last blog post particularly as there's little time to post between work and setting up a new Interior Design studio in Goa. The studio in Goa is a 150...
Lockdown Reading
On the evening before the second lockdown in Delhi I bought Forgotten Masters, Indian Painting for the East India Company for some easy lockdown reading. The book features the work of Indian artists who were...
Unexpected Inspiration
Inspiration can be found everywhere in India -- in the frenetic pace of Delhi, the quiet of the Himalayas and in the landscape of Rajasthan. It is often in the unexpected that inspiration in an...
Little Boxes
Class cannot be bought; it has to be practiced and inspired into elegant interiors and lifestyle. It is no cause for surprise that some of the most elegant Indian interior design today is inspired from...
Colour in the Thar
A humble bastion of history, almost victorious in its sparse, dry lands—Shekawati inspires modesty within the realm of its sublime architecture. Each place in India, especially smaller, historic towns, has its own energy throbbing through...
An Afternoon at The Figueiredo Mansion
On top of the itinerary of a week long visit to Goa was to discover as much of its cultural and biodiversity heritage as seven days would allow. We set out to explore the old...
Stillness
The mountains give solace, to nurture the imagination and to explore stillness—everything that is overwhelmed by urban living. In the quietude of cemeteries, churches and gardens—bookmarks of the Raj in India, often one is able to...