Before competing at the World Cup of shooting in Lima, Peru, the former Olympian Shagun Chowdhary gathered friends for a night of dancing at her family farm.
Jaipur’s design community is standing strong
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April 10, 2021 09:50 IST
Despite tourism drying up, the Pink City’s creative entrepreneurs are weathering the pandemic, pivoting where required, giving back to their artisans, and showing solidarity
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Despite tourism drying up, the Pink City’s creative entrepreneurs are weathering the pandemic, pivoting where required, giving back to their artisans, and showing solidarity
Jaipur is a contradiction of sorts. Its beautiful forts and palaces are contrasted by crowded urban sprawls. It is the production centre for intricate embroidery and prints that’s used by some of the world’s most luxurious brands, but the city has few big local brands to boast of. “Though Jaipur has been a centre for various aesthetic activities through the centuries, the average lay person doesn’t belong to the cognoscenti. In fact, the cognoscenti is very small here,” says art curator and founder of arts organisa
December 21, 2020
I’m going to go with “yes.” It’s the most delightful thing I have seen in the “non–jewelry gifts for jewelry lovers” category since discovering this line of porcelain trinket trays and keepsake boxes.
This charming Lady of the Rings jewelry memory game, made exclusively for Valery Demure, owner of London-based Objet D’Emotion, places images of jewels by the designers Demure carries on 24 handmade recycled paper cards. Its design is a collaboration between Demure and Nur Kaoukji, creative director of Ecru, a Kuwaiti lifestyle brand that, according to its website, is “inspired by the ethos and culture of Arab hospitality.”