Craft
The Art of Wool
How a fleece becomes a rug, from the sheep to the last trim of the pile, filmed in our own workshops.
Rugberry Universe
Rugberry Universe
Homes, makers and the craft behind the rug.
Craft
Chanakya School of Craft and the End of Anonymous Hands
For decades Mumbai embroidery went uncredited on European runways. A free school for women set out to change who gets named for the work, and what naming the maker asks of anyone who buys handmade.
Vitra Campus: A Factory That Became an Argument
A fire in 1981 destroyed over half of a furniture factory near Basel. The rebuilding, one architect at a time, made the Vitra Campus a pilgrimage, and a lesson in calm floors under loud architecture.
Raw Mango and the Politics of Colour
Sanjay Garg made handloom a medium for ideas, often through colour. Then in London he took the colour away. On Raw Mango, judgement and the romance of the weaver.
Khadi: Spun by Hand, Worn as Protest
Khadi is simply cloth spun and woven by hand, yet the spinning wheel became the emblem of a freedom movement. What faster wheels did to the cloth, and why its unevenness matters.
Bengaluru's Museum Mile, from Kasturba Road to Palace Road
Within a few kilometres of Cubbon Park, Bengaluru now has a private museum by Mathew and Ghosh, a national gallery in a royal era mansion and an art college with a crafts mela. A route through shad...
At Bar Luce, Wes Anderson Built a Room Instead of a Set
Wes Anderson said he designed Bar Luce as the opposite of a film set: a bar for real afternoons. Why pastel formica and terrazzo work when they are tough as well as pretty.
Chandigarh Modernism, Built for Sun and Shade
Chandigarh was drawn by Le Corbusier and built by Pierre Jeanneret, whose teak and cane chairs now go to auction abroad. Where the material vocabulary of the modern Indian room came from.
Ett Hem, the Stockholm Townhouse Hotel
Ett Hem means a home, and the Stockholm hotel takes the name literally: a kitchen anyone can use, a library to disappear into, a fire lit when it is cold. What it teaches about warmth.
Dinner Under Jaali Light at Indian Accent
Indian Accent now cooks inside a hotel wrapped in stone jaali screens, in a room of marble floors and white linen. A lesson in restraint, and in continuity after a famous chef moved on.
The Textiles That Made Fallingwater a Home
Fallingwater is told as a story of concrete over a waterfall. It was also a family home, and its client commissioned a Wright office hung with hand woven textiles. Why even this house needed cloth.
The Bombay Canteen's Bungalow That Never Was
The Bombay Canteen built a memory of the old Bombay bungalow inside a former mill compound, then grew it up in warm wood and terrazzo. How a room can feel inherited without being old.
Mexico City After Barragán: Walls, Light and Volcanic Stone
Mexico City is often reduced to a pink wall. Walk from Barragán's house to El Eco and the volcanic stone of the Anahuacalli, and the real subject is mass, shadow and plain floors.
Phantom Hands and the Many Authors of Chandigarh
A Bengaluru workshop that began as a catalogue of vintage objects now remakes Chandigarh furniture, and insists the pieces belonged to many hands, not one famous name.
