Cosmo Brockway

Sonam Kapoor’s Mumbai home is a magnificent layering of Tanjore paintings, Naga panels, Rajasthani jalis, zardozi embroideries and beyond. Along with AD100 designer Kavita Singh, she composes a love song to the decorative arts of India.

A collector and antiques dealer, the late Joe Tohme’s greatest passion project, his home, Beit Chabeb in Beirut, is a coming together of the rustic and the refined.

Lal Kothi, Peter and Cecile D’Ascoli's verdant Delhi farmhouse, is a layered, maximalist homage to Indian textiles.

Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh, the head of the Jaipur royal family known to friends and family as "Pacho", leads us through unseen parts of the royal City Palace complex—stepwells, terraces, havelis rich with the patina of age and time— and lays before us his ambitious project of revival.

Brigitte Singh is the recipient of the AD X JSW Prize For Contemporary Craftsmanship Lifetime Achievement Award this year. A true reviver of the craft of block printing, an oeuvre of ineffably beautiful and refined prints in a searing depth of colour, and a flame bearer of a design lineage stretching back to the Mughal courts—Brigitte is one of a kind.

Anita Lal, founder of Good Earth, 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.

AD travels to Chennai to visit Vastrakala’s new atelier, a “modern manufactory”, designed by Niels Schoenfelder, principal architect of AD100 firm Mancini Enterprises.

An Irishman in India, this interior architect has made his home in a graceful apartment with high ceilings, tall panelled doors, and a sunlit loggia, in Mumbai's favourite historic district.

The white simplicity of Greek houses set against the tropical green of Talpe Beach in Galle, Sri Lanka, interior designer Chlöe Elkerton's newly renovated Braganza House has been a labour of love.

A fantastical new hotel conjured up by three accomplished alchemists in the game—Barbara Miolini, Marie-Anne Oudejans, and Vikas Soni.

The French-British artist has preserved for posterity the institutions that have seeded some of the country's most treasured artists

An èminence grise of the international art world, Jaffer is a man of formidable knowledge and expertise, something that he wears with the lightest touch of elegance. In his home overlooking the Seine, he lives amidst art that embodies the confluence of East and West.

The exuberant personal style of Elizabeth  Morrison, founder of From Jaipur With Love, permeates every corner of her Dublin Home

A little bit of London, plenty of India. Walk with us through Sonam's home and studio, imagined, curated, and choreographed by the actor with Rooshad Shroff and Nikhil Mansata 

The late architect and man behind the design language of Aman resorts around the world, Tuttle’s own hÔtel particulier in Paris is a golden example of his flair with objects, interiors, proportions and what makes a thing of beauty

The palace's simple lines preceded the more belligerent Indo–gothic style. It has, as this writer discovers, lain almost untouched since 1918