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Draped onto lofty ceilings, stretched across bespoke pieces of furniture, or artfully framed on walls, Indian textiles possess an innate ability to transform spaces with their storied threads and tactile allure. From Shallu and Naveen Jindal’s Kurukshetra home to Peter and Cecile D’Ascoli's Delhi farmhouse, these Indian homes show you how its done.
Anita Lal's Sitara Embodies Timeless Luxury
Anita Lal has discovered and crafted her perfect haven. Sitara, overlooking the Kullu valley, is imbued with a deep respect for the mountain vernacular and the spirit of the place in which it is set. “Every journey I have undertaken has come about by chance or serendipity,” she says. “I started Good Earth after a spell living in Munich and falling in love with the elegant shops there, the aesthetic, the stylish packaging, the considered products—but I never imagined it would become the behemoth it has from one small store.” Having recently embraced a more creative role within the brand, Anita became free to spend more time at her cottage overlooking the Kullu Valley, and had the revelation that the combination of simplicity and the soaring grandeur of the surroundings could be the backdrop to a place of healing and Anita’s own approach to wellness that penetrates every crevice of the soul.
Original text by Cosmo Brockway. Edited for context.
Inside a 1970s Home In Ahmedabad
This modernist home in Ahmedabad, built in the 1970s and restored recently by AD100 architect Kunal Shah, is a reminder of a classic domestic architecture that an entire generation of Indians grew up in — a modernism that is timeless, that we adapted to suit our culture, climate, materials and our domestic rituals. This is Fouzdar, a grandfather's home.
The living room on the first floor is decorated in moti bharat works, a unique craft form practised by women in regions of Gujarat and Rajasthan, of colourful beads intricately embroidered on fabric. Here, this traditional craft pieces are framed in a contemporary style and hung as a composition. The custom hand-woven durrie was made in Tamil Nadu, in colours inspired from the moti bharat. Bolsters were added to the original art deco sofas. Khadi curtains hang throughout the home; a kantha bedspread can be seen on the bed in the far room.
Original text by Komal Sharma. Edited for context.
Peter And Cecile D’Ascoli's Delhi Farmhouse
Lal Kothi, Peter and Cecile D’Ascoli's verdant Delhi farmhouse, is a layered, maximalist homage to Indian textiles. In this verdant corner, tucked away from the city’s hustle, the couple has quietly established themselves as creative tastemakers. After founding Talianna Textiles, a design atelier, in 2006, Peter and Cecile—from New York and Paris respectively—made India their home. Ensconced, rather snugly, in a South Delhi apartment along with two daughters, the chance to embark on a new chapter “with our own fruit trees and a sense of breathing out” moving to a villa surrounded by lawns proved too irresistible to pass up.
An admirer of symmetry, the lack of straight lines in the house was a challenge triumphed over by Peter cleverly tenting the living room in a “shamiana effect…that helps settle the room with a sense of calm,” in his words, and decorating the dining room with large Tree of Life panels of his own design. The fantastical dining room, perhaps the most romantic in Delhi, has been covered in fabric from D’Ascoli’s Coromandel collection while the table is arrayed with a “Fresco” tablecloth and “Timur” hand-embroidered napkins from the D’Ascoli x Cabana collection.
Original text by Cosmo Brockway. Edited for context.
Shallu And Naveen Jindal’s Parliamentary Home
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When interior designer Amina Bhatia received a commission to redesign Shallu and Naveen Jindal’s home in Kurukshetra, her biggest nemesis was time. A time span of 30 days, to be precise. Naveen Jindal was soon to file his nomination as Member of Parliament from Kurukshetra, and the home would serve as the Jindals’ parliamentary residence in the Haryana city. Bhatia got to work, racing against time but bolstered by the family’s trust, an innate understanding of what they sought, and great creative license. “I was given an empty canvas with a lot of freedom,” she says.
Textiles dress up the entire home, such as a pair of Ikat textiles framed on the walls. The quiet colour palette is, in fact, a constant in the home, where textiles, art, and crafts take centerstage. Equestrian motifs such as a pair of horse-shaped bookends, pay nod to Naveen’s love for horses and years of playing polo. Antique brass artefacts, ceramics, and urns dot console tops and corners in the house, and books of all shapes and sizes are stylised and stored around the home – in keeping with the residents’ voracious reading habits. Also ubiquitous are textiles, from living spaces to bedrooms, be it artisanal rugs, Ikats sourced from Delhi Crafts Council, or picks from homegrown brands such as Good Earth and Sarita Handa.
Original text by Sohini Dey. Edited for context.
Anupam Poddar And Eeshaan Kashyap’s Delhi Home
Anupam Poddar and Eeshaan Kashyap’s generous first-floor Delhi home in the shadow of Humayun’s Tomb harks to a leisurely way of living. Yet nothing could be in greater, more captivating contrast than the building’s elderly exterior is to the brilliantly imaginative coalescing of colour, texture, and pattern that define its interiors. In room after room, a treasury of layered wall colours emerald, rose madder, and yellow ochre—are offset with a collection of sculptural ceramics and rare Indian textiles. It is as well that the apartment was a blank canvas when the duo moved in two years ago, in some ways, their professional backgrounds are a creative trajectory with overlapping interests. In the living room, cushions in various hues of indigo line a Donald Judd–inspired sofa against a mica-encrusted, mud-plastered wall. Three resist-dyed ritual textiles from Indonesia are illuminated by a woven paper floor lamp. The coffee table in front is sheathed in flamed copper.
Original text by Sunil Sethi. Edited for context.
