India
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in India - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to India.
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026: City of the Year shortlist
Explore the nominated urban locations making an impact in design, architecture and contemporary culture
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Jaipur is having a creative renaissance – visit the Pink City reimagined
How Jaipur’s artisans, designers, and cultural pioneers are building on its heritage to transform a historic capital into a modern powerhouse of creativity
By Cristina Kiran Piotti Published
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The Architecture Edit: Wallpaper’s houses of the month
From wineries-turned-music studios to fire-resistant holiday homes, these are the properties that have most impressed the Wallpaper* editors this month
By Anna Solomon Published
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Five women-led studios reshaping Indian creativity at Design Mumbai 2025
Design Mumbai 2025 opens 26-29 November – Wallpaper* meets five women-led local brands exhibiting at this year's show
By Ali Morris Published
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A refined Indian country residence reimagines the farmhouse
Set among Karnataka’s rolling fields and forest, House by the Grove by Taliesyn Design & Architecture combines modern materials with an open approach to the elements
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Half bridge, half home: Wallmakers’ latest project takes architecture to daring new heights
Hovering above a forest stream in Maharashtra, Bridge House pushes the limits of engineering and eco-conscious design
By Malaika Byng Published
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The Architecture Edit: Wallpaper’s houses of the month
From Malibu beach pads to cosy cabins blanketed in snow, Wallpaper* has featured some incredible homes this month. We profile our favourites below
By Anna Solomon Published
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Cascading greenery softens the brutalist façade of this Hyderabad home
The monolithic shell of this home evokes a familiar brutalist narrative, but designer 23 Degrees Design Shift softens the aesthetic by shrouding Antriya in lush planting
By Anna Solomon Published
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A lush Bengaluru villa is a home that acts as a vessel for nature
With this new Bengaluru villa, Purple Ink Studio wanted gardens tucked into the fabric of the home within this urban residence in India's 'Garden City'
By Tianna Williams Published
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Surrounded by mango trees and frangipani, an Ahmedabad home is a soothing sanctuary
Ahmedabad home Teen Vaults, designed by Vaissnavi Shukl, is a family residence grounded in materiality and bold architectural language
By Tianna Williams Published
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A minimalist Japanese restaurant brings drama to dining in New Delhi
At Call Me Ten, Renesa Architecture Design Interiors crafts an evocative setting of curves, textures and light; a space where design and dining entwine
By Aditi Sharma Published
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This Hyderabad bar and kitchen mixes tropical brutalism with lush social courtyards
Babylon, a brewery and kitchen in Jubilee Hills, is what concrete dreams are made of
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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In Mumbai, two coastal apartments offer options for brothers with different styles
Rajiv Saini’s NJM & PVM apartments in Mumbai demonstrate how identical layouts can be transformed into two distinct interiors
By Tianna Williams Published
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A brutalist mosque explores light and spirituality in tropical Kerala
This brutalist mosque by studio Common Ground explores concrete forms and top light as a symbol of spirituality in tropical, southern India
By Ravail Khan Published
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For Indian landscape architect Varna Shashidhar, nature taught her ‘more than any lecture ever could’
Varna Shashidhar of Bangalore studio VSLA tells us of her journey to becoming a landscape architect, guided by observation, intuition, and a profound respect for place
By Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar Published
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This café-restaurant in Mumbai feels like a warm hug in design form
Conceived by Studio RCI, Bomdia Brasserie is a comforting two-storey venue in the Matunga neighbourhood, where every detail invites you to linger
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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We spent the night at Indian modernists the Kanade brothers' home in Nagaj
Indian modernists the Kanade brothers' home in Nagaj exemplifies their approach to architecture; architect and writer Nipun Prabhakar spends the night and tells the story
By Nipun Prabhakar Published
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Design ni Dukaan’s new collection both revives and reimagines endangered Indian crafts
By using traditional aesthetics and methods in collaboration with their last living artisans, ‘Roop Aroop’ demonstrates how vernacular design can be both rooted and radical
By Anna Solomon Published
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This cardboard and rope chair seeks to redemocratise design with ‘joyful frugality’
Wallpaper* speaks to architect Nipun Prabhakar of Dhammada Collective about the studio’s latest project, ‘Paper Tube, an open-source chair made from discarded cardboard tubes and rope
By Ali Morris Published
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A street-like Pune clubhouse celebrates the ‘joy of shared, unhurried experiences’
A brick clubhouse in Pune by Studio VDGA reflects the fluidity and openness of the Indian way of life with a series of welcoming plazas, courtyards and lanes
By Léa Teuscher Published
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Behind a carefully composed geometric brick façade, a New Delhi residence rises high
AKDA’s design for this New Delhi residence explores new geometries and high densities
By Jonathan Bell Published
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This Hyderabad live/work space is rooted in its leafy context, centred around an old neem tree
In Hyderabad, India, Soil & Soul Studio by Iki Builds is a blueprint for a conscious way of building, working and living
By Tianna Williams Published
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A night at Pierre Jeanneret’s house, Chandigarh’s best-kept secret
Pierre Jeanneret’s house in Chandigarh is a modernist monument, an important museum of architectural history, and a gem hidden in plain sight; architect, photographer and writer Nipun Prabhakar spent the night and reported back
By Nipun Prabhakar Published
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This Ahmedabad house is enclosed within a curved concrete shell
This Ahmedabad house by Achyutam Designs is a homage to concrete and a celebration of the curve, a family house designed to flow into its surroundings
By Jonathan Bell Published
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In New Delhi, a home designed to embrace light and landscape
A New Delhi house, Architecture Discipline’s Lighthouse, arranges a generous family residence and pool house around an expansive garden
By Jonathan Bell Published
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This Coimbatore home exemplifies the ‘modern Indian’ aesthetic
A spiritual pooja room and local artefacts meet European furniture and offbeat design at this intriguing residence in south India, which is the focus of Wallpaper’s interiors series, The Inside Story
By Anna Solomon Published
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Inside the Shakti Design Residency, taking Indian craftsmanship to Alcova 2025
The new initiative pairs emerging talents with some of India’s most prestigious ateliers, resulting in intricately crafted designs, as seen at Alcova 2025 in Milan
By Henrietta Thompson Published


