What is Wabi-Sabi Interior Design?
Wabi-sabi is the Japanese philosophy of finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and the quietly incomplete. After travelling through Nara, Kyoto, Tokyo, and Osaka, Alpesh reflects on what the idea really asks of a home, and why the answer is less about buying beige things and more about how you look.
How to Style Your Home with Art Deco
Art Deco works best at home in small, deliberate doses: one confident piece, warm metallics, and calm surroundings. Drawing on the streets Alpesh grew up around, home to one of the world's largest collections of Deco buildings, here is how to style the era without turning your living room into a film set.
The Architecture of Pattern: Iznik, Azulejos, and Jali
From Iznik in Istanbul to the Azulejos of Seville, the carved screens of Jaipur to the temple forms of Japan, Alpesh asks why every culture, independently, arrived at the same instinct.
Small moments of art
What does it feel like to move through a life where the objects around you carry some trace of thought? From the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi to twenty years of hand-carving fretwork in South London, Alpesh shares a belief that sits at the heart of everything Bombay Design Co. makes.
The Unexpected Journeys of Art Deco
Alpesh on geometry, jewels, and a design language that never stopped travelling.