Launched a decade ago, Jewell Paints focused creating low VOC paints with high performance. But the market demand has shifted from simple aesthetics to paints that deliver functional value; and the company has now incorporated Nanotechnology to meet these evolving needs. Mr. Nitin Jain, Co-founder and Director, Jewell Paints explains how Nanotechnology can redefine what paints can achieve in future.

The last celebrity home featured in this season of Asian Paints’ home décor series, ‘Where the Heart Is’ is charming couple’s Harbhajan Singh and Geeta Basra’s home in Jalandhar! The couple welcomes us into their quintessentially Punjabi abode which sees the saying ‘home is where the heart is’ come to life!

Edifice Consultants helmed by Ar. Ravi Sarangan, is an award-winning design practice that crafts design solutions through focused collaborative efforts. Powered by a highly motivated work-force with global education, exposure, and experience, the firm makes a concerted effort to create beautiful living and working environments and focuses on delivering genuinely sustainable solutions which transcend certifications. Featured here is a 40,000 sq. ft. office for a software company in Pune.

With a Diploma in Fine Arts & Modelling from Karnataka Chithra Kala Parishad, Dr. M. S. Murthy was conferred an honorary Doctorate from the Kannada University, Hampi. He won the International Biennial Award from the Iran Academy of Arts in 2003 and Karnataka Sahithya Academy Award in 2006, while the Government of Karnataka bestowed him with the Rajyotsava Award in 2010, and with Lifetime achievement Award, in 2017. Featured here is a series of paintings on Mahatma Gandhi – a brilliant depiction of the life and times of the Father of the Nation.

At the forefront of Indian design and architecture today, Abin Design Studio was set up in 2005 by Ar. Abin Chaudhuri. The Kolkata-based practice has since earned numerous accolades across various typologies. ADS believes that architecture is an artistic expression so far as it transcends its purely its utilitarian, technical, and rational realm. It then becomes a metaphoric expression of the lived world, human condition and context. The spirit of learning from everything around burns bright in the ADS team.