A quieter shift is shaping Indian design—one led by emerging studios grounding expression in sensitivity, narrative, and new-age restraint. These emerging practices treat design as an experience before an aesthetic, privileging authenticity over signature and nuance over visual excess. Their work signals a shift from surface to substance, from form-led to feeling-led design —...

The year 2025 has signified a pivotal shift in India’s spatial design culture — across interiors and architecture. IAnD speaks to five studios who have significantly influenced design dialogue over the past year. Shaped by material authenticity, cultural awareness, and a renewed openness to experimentation and nuanced imperfection, each of these studios has forged a distinct ...

Facades are increasingly growing into a city’s most public form of storytelling. India Art n Design picks three projects across geographies to delve into their dynamic choreography as cultural expressions stitched into the urban fabric. Facades have long been the first point of contact between architecture and the public — a communication shaped through material, form, and sc...

In a year defined by the search for rooted modern living, one home rose above the noise to capture both imagination and emotion — captivating several thousands and claiming digital stardom across all social media platforms of IndiaArtnDesign... Designed for a young couple returning to Ahmedabad after 15 years in the US, the home’s narrative struck a powerful chord with our di...

Studio Author earns the Design Impact Honour – International 2025 for redefining a clinical typology through bold, unconventional applications of design intelligence. Clinical environments often default to sterility and enclosure — spaces designed more for procedural efficiency than emotional clarity. Their spatial language tends to signal caution, privacy, or even inhibition...