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Reborn in India

For the best part of a month, Wallpaper* shifted HQ to Mumbai and Delhi with one goal: to produce as true a portrait as possible of the most eye-popping, synapse-snapping, pulse-pushing place on the planet

Architecture / 7 Mar 2018

Pritzker Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi on modernism, India and dropping your ego

He was a fan and follower of Le Corbusier, but Balkrishna Doshi [who just won the prestigious Pritzker Prize 2018] has developed a uniquely Indian modernism. The first thing that you notice about Sangath, Dr Balkrishna Doshi’s office in Ahmedabad...

Architecture / 20 Apr 2016

Indian craft: a Frankfurt exhibition explores the work of Studio Mumbai

A new exhibition at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt explores the extraordinary, handcrafted work of architecture and design practice Studio Mumbai. The India-based firm was set up in 2005 by Bijoy Jain and has since captured the hearts and minds...

Architecture / 31 Mar 2016

Anupama Kundoo investigates affordable housing solutions at Roca London

If you’ve been counting down the days towards the much-anticipated, official opening of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale at the end of May, a new show at the Roca London Gallery is here to offer a teaser that might help...

Design / 24 Mar 2016

It takes two: Paul Matter debuts his dancing ’Tango’ lights in India

Based in New Delhi, Nikhil Paul’s opened the doors to his Paul Matter Studio with a debut lighting collection entitled ‘Tango’. The studio’s original and custom lamps, for residential and commercial settings, take cues from mid-century modernism and the Industrial...

Architecture / 8 Feb 2016

A legacy of Bangladeshi architecture on show at the Dhaka Art Summit

In the wake of partition, the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru enlisted Le Corbusier to build a new Punjab capital. The result, of course, was Chandigarh. A decade or so later, the Pakistani government invited their own super-star architect to...

Architecture / 24 Dec 2015

Pretty screen: India’s Lattice House protects its residents from prying eyes

Looking like a mysterious stack of timber boxes, the Lattice House is located in a new suburb on Jammu city’s outskirts in northwest India. Created by Mumbai-based architect Sameep Padora, the structure is defined by its characteristic, permeable skin made...

Art / 2 Nov 2015

Eco conscience: Vibha Galhotra’s creations comment on New Delhi pollution

While it’s certainly the norm for world leaders to call attention to dire environmental issues, New Delhi-based artist Vibha Galhotra addresses similar concerns in her compelling oeuvre, which is currently on view at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City...

Design / 12 Oct 2015

Top 20 interior designers who know how to create sublime spaces

From delicate and muted minimalism to eye-popping, era-hopping fancies, here are the designers who know how to mix, match, edit, illuminate, decorate and otherwise create sublime spaces…  To celebrate our 200th issue, we decided to take our Power 100 and...

Architecture / 20 May 2015

Singapore’s colourful new Indian Heritage Centre mixes history and modernity

The newly opened Indian Heritage Centre has finally given Singapore’s ethnic Indian community a worthy home in which to showcase its cultural riches. Created by New Zealand-born, Japan-trained, Singapore-based Robert Greg Shand Architects in collaboration with urban design consultants Urbnarc...

Art / 13 Feb 2015

Existentialism and Indian design collide in Subodh Gupta’s latest New York show

In a world where the idea of value is equated with luxury, status and rarity, Subodh Gupta has made it a point to elevate the everyday. His latest exhibition ‘Seven Billion Light Years’, recently opened at Hauser & Wirth’s Chelsea...

Architecture / 19 Dec 2013

River island: Architecture Brio brings nature flowing into House on a Stream, India

The stream running through a plot in West India’s Alibag largely directed the design solution for this brand new house by Mumbai-based practice Architecture Brio. See more of House on a Stream The house is a weekend retreat for a...

Design / 14 Oct 2013

Doshi Levien bring India’s everyday objects to life in a new exhibition at Grand-Hornu

Europalia, a biennial arts festival with a focus on the cultural heritage of individual countries, is turning the spotlight on India for its 24th edition. Key to the program is the ’Living Objects: Made for India’ exhibition at Grand-Hornu, for...

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