Traditionally, Indians lived in a common family system. The home’s many residents and their interpersonal relationships required well-defined spaces for a variety of activities. Inside the house, there was a private zone and a public zone around the courtyard. These beautiful houses in India had a very high sustainability index.
Steeply pitched tiled roofs perched on concrete columns shelter the breezy interiors of House by the Grove, a weekend retreat on the outskirts of Bengaluru designed by Indian architecture studio Taliesyn. Located alongside a grove of trees near the town of Magadi, the 5,433-square-foot (505-square-metre) dwelling was completed for a family of three to be a place for “reflection and slowing down” away from the city.
Sand sourced from four different regions creates a “geological canvas” of coloured and textured strata in the rammed-earth walls of this home in India, designed by Ahmedabad studio Hiren Patel Architects + Design. Named A House Born of Four Soils, the 790-square-metre home is located on an open, arid site on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
There is a certain stillness to the landscape in Naggar, Kullu…dense orchards, distant hills, and a pace that resists urgency. Within this setting, Salt Box, designed by Arch Lab, takes shape as a house that responds with restraint, allowing its form to emerge gradually over time.
Kahani : Tanjore Reimagined – Gilded Devotion, Bespoke Mastery & Timeless Grandeur
At Kahani, our Tanjore Art collection is a tribute to one of India’s most opulent and revered artistic traditions – where devotion, craftsmanship & grandeur converge.
Working closely with some of the finest master artisans from Thanjavur & across South India, we bring to life extraordinary creations that honour the legacy of classical #Tanjore painting while refining it for the contemporary collector.
Gourishankar Soni : “Echoes of the Desert: – Narratives of Memory, Myth & the Everyday”
Artist, Gourishankar Soni’s practice offers a vivid and introspective journey into the cultural psyche of Rajasthan, where lived experience and inherited memory converge. Born in 1980 in Shrimadhopur, Soni draws deeply from the region’s visual and oral traditions, translating them into richly layered contemporary narratives.
Nitish Bhattacharya : “Between Form and Flux, The Poetics of Pure Abstraction”
Born in 1973, Artist, Nitish Bhattacharya emerges as a compelling voice in contemporary abstraction, orchestrating a dynamic interplay between colour, gesture, and spatial tension. Working predominantly with acrylics on expansive canvases and paper, his compositions unfold as charged encounters – where sweeping brushwork and layered textures collide in rhythmic intensity.
Ramesh Gorjala : “Sacred Narratives Within Form – Reimagining Myth Through Intricate Worlds”
Born in 1979 in Srikalahasti, Artist, Ramesh Gorjala stands at the intersection of tradition and contemporary expression, crafting works that are at once devotional and visually complex. Trained at Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University, his practice is deeply informed by India’s rich mythological and artisanal heritage.
Shuvankar Maitra : “Rooted Light: Meditations on Trees, Time & Silent Resilience”
Artist, Shuvankar Maitra’s practice unfolds as a contemplative ode to the quiet intelligence of trees, transforming natural observation into a refined visual philosophy. For an artist attuned to the rhythms of changing seasons, saplings in bloom and winter-bare branches alike become enduring sources of inspiration – especially within the stark contrast of urban life.
Wilson Souza : “The Lyrical Body as Landscape, Desire & Quiet Defiance”
Artist, Wilson Souza has forged a distinctive visual language in contemporary Indian art, where the feminine form becomes both subject and symbol. His semi-abstract compositions, rendered in bold, luminous colour, inhabit a space between dream and lived reality – at once sensual, theatrical & contemplative.
Kayalvizhi Sethukarasu : “Where Silence Breathes Through the Landscape of Memory”
Artist, Kayalvizhi Sethukarasu stands as a compelling voice in contemporary Indian abstraction, crafting landscapes that are as emotional as they are elemental. A graduate of Bharathiyar Palkalai Koodam, Pondicherry Fine Arts College, her practice is deeply anchored in the lived textures of rural India.
Artist, Manish Chavda: “Echoes of Stillness in Meditative, Minimalist Landscapes of Quiet Life”
Artist Manish Chavda’s paintings inhabit a quiet, contemplative world where human presence recedes, and sparse elements—a lone cow, a drifting bird, a still moon—anchor expansive, meditative landscapes. His compositions are pared down yet poetic, each motif carefully placed to evoke stillness rather than narrative.
Artist, Vishnu Pawan stands as a distinctive contemporary voice within India’s evolving art landscape, an artist whose practice is anchored in both cultural memory and personal inquiry. Emerging from North India, Pawan’s visual language draws deeply from the textures of everyday life—rituals, folklore, and the quiet poetry of rural and small-town existence—yet reinterprets them through a modern, often introspective lens.
Artist, Biplab Biswas (b. 1957), born in the rural environs of Bharatpur near Kolkata, emerges as a quietly compelling voice within contemporary Indian art – an artist whose practice is rooted as much in discipline as in devotion. Educated at the University of Calcutta and later at Rabindra Bharati University, Biswas developed a rigorous command over multiple printmaking techniques, including woodcut, linocut, and etching.
Artist, Seema Kohli : “When I paint, you see not what I have made but what you want to see.”
Myth and fable apart, Seema Kohli’s canvases are layered with many, many stories rooted as much in philosophy as in knowledge gained in modern times, a parable of tales both imagined and real, till one can no longer tell the real from the imagined.
