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Prameela Nair is a resident of AbuDhabi, UAE, but that did not stop her from mindfully collecting antiques and vintage pieces over several years. All these pieces found a home in her Palakkad home, replete with Athangundi Tiles and a lovely old-world charm.
The colour of the year according to my husband, is badly named! He says Ultraviolet is invisible, so technically, it cannot be a colour. That’s the way his brain is wired… and I have to often explain the obvious to him. Sigh! Ultra Violet, get it? The nirvana of violet […]
Remember seeing all those up-cycled chair planters on Pinterest and saying, “Wow! I want to do this!” And did you? No! Neither did I. But Veena Singh did. Be like Veena Singh. She’s a grandmother, and she’s unstoppable! She’s an avid home decor and gardening enthusiast, and wait, I have […]
Deviating slightly from our focus on Indian and desi global decor, I have a beautiful Indonesian home for you to tour today. Windya or Inda as she is known, has a gorgeous Instagram feed, and that’s how I first got in touch with her. Her decorating style blew me away, […]
1. Curved Sofa from Freedom Tree Freedom Tree is a gorgeous online store with the most beautiful selection of retro-lush pieces I have seen in a while! This Curved Sofa certainly called out to me. One look at it and I was in la-la land dreaming about the possibilities of […]
Dar Mona is a guest house in the hills overlooking the Orange Plains in France. The proud owner Mona is a well-travelled designer and photographer. The rooms bear testimony to Mona’s travels in Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, China, India and Syria – the photographs, designs and styles are windows to her […]
This combination has been on my mind a lot lately, but what triggered this post was a pic of singer Remo Fernandes‘ son’s wedding. The backdrop in pink, orange and assorted ethnic colors was so arresting, that it re-ignited my color crush, and I immediately dug into my pink-orange folder […]
Woodstruck, run by husband and wife duo Khadija and Ziad Sali, is a furniture destination with a difference. The couple concentrates on eco-friendly furniture made from plantation sourced hard woods, sustainable materials like water hyacinth, sea grass, abaca and rattan. How it all began – The couple is well-traveled, and […]
Do you change your decor every season? In South India, with more or less humid/hot weather throughout the year, not many feel the need to change their home decor as the seasons change. But I think it’s a wonderful idea to do so! And, here is picture-proof about how lovely […]
Tia Pakhi’s French designer Anais Basu (read more about Tia Pakhi in an earlier blog post on The Keybunch) has brought out a collection of textiles hand-embroidered by the women artisans of Bengal. The work is a tribute to Kantha embroidery with a fresh and contemporary touch. Those of you […]
