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India has always tugged at the hearts of people across the globe. But to enter her heart one must enter her homes which have layers of architectural legacy that speak volumes on one of the world8217;s richest heritage 8212; a subject for which there8217;s always more space. The latest is the mother of all coffee-table books by Sunil Sethi, who apart from writing for The Indian Express, anchors Limelight for Star News.
Indian Interiors, next in the series by Angelika Taschen her Moroccon Interiors was a raging success, dwells only on historic and traditional habitats. With text in English, German and French, and photographs by German photographer Deidi von Schaewen, the book is available at all leading book stores for Rs 2,500.
And to make sure that the news doesn8217;t get stale, the author-editor-photographer team is holding an exhibition of the photographs printed in the book at the National Gallery of Modern Art. While you can see and smell Rajasthan, Gujarat, Orissa and Kerala in plenty, one unmistak-ably missesMadhya Pradesh, the Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and the north-eastern states. Sethi8217;s rejoinder to the oldest question? quot;We don8217;t want to give away the secret. For, the moment you do that, you become boring.quot;
The colourful gallery walls will be a window to archetypal interiors of famous Indian houses till the end of this month. On view is the flying roof of Delhi8217;s Poddar House; conservationist and philanthropist O P Jain8217;s Anandgram; Dimple Kapadia8217;s house designed by fashion designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla; the house Le Cobusier built for Manorma Sarabhai and her two sons in Ahmedabad. Also included are Asha Parekh8217;s Juhu bungalow by Nari Gandhi, from where a thief couldn8217;t find his way out.
