Trust Sabyasachi to turn to create beautiful art — this time, a wallpaper, for Nilaya by Asian Paints featuring Deepika Padukone. Titled Guldasta, the wallpaper is inspired by the designer’s life spent in North Calcutta, in the late seventies and early eighties. Featuring hand-painted motifs of tigers lounging amidst peaceful palm trees, the Taj Mahal, flora and fauna inspired by the tree of life and blossoming flowers.
The hand-painted wallpaper resonates perfectly with Deepika’s elegant ensemble and disarming beauty.
Sabyasachi says”, The homes of North Calcutta always fascinate me. Through winding lanes and decrepit alleys, one often stumbles upon ‘Paradise lost’. Humble tea stalls, crumbling book binding factories and dingy mustard oil presseries make way for forlorn palaces and music rooms of erstwhile ‘zamindars’. A lesson in sheer hedonistic maximalism. Osler and Baccarat chandeliers, completely engulfed in a shroud of cobwebs occasionally twinkling in the late afternoon sunlight, Devonshire china holding on for dear life on creaky cabinets, jostling for space amidst hand-painted tin and an occasional Lifebuoy soap perched precariously on a silver salver. Works of great European and Bengali masters co-existing in communal harmony with a calendar from a local pharmaceutical company, a withering taxidermy and Fuji-colour rendered black and white family portraits. As a parakeet and a cockatoo chirp in unison from the courtyard, my fingers swipe the dust from the walls to unveil yet another treasure. A hand-painted wallpaper from Paris, finely outlined with 18 carat gold! And one thought one knew the city! “ @sabyasachiofficial @deepikapadukone . #Nilaya #WorldOfNilaya #AsianPaints #Interior #InteriorDesign #InstaDecor #HomeDecor #InteriorInspiration #Style #HomeDesign #DecorLovers #InteriorDecorating #WallDecor #WallDesign #WallDecorating #IndianLuxe #PatternsOfIndia #LuxuryWallpaper #Decoration #Wallpaper #WallCoverings #Sabyasachi #TheWorldOfSabyasachi #TheSabyasachiArtFoundation #DeepikaPadukone #SabyasaschixAsianPaints #Green #GreenWallpaper #IndiaMoghol #TajMahal
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This continuing partnership with Asian Paints is yet another feather in the hat for Sabyasachi. The designer has been known to collaborate with various designers across different genres — his collection with The Pottery Barn for vintage-inspired home decor, his collaboration with Christian Louboutin for a global footwear range and his diamond jewellery business with Forevermark were all well-accepted.
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