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Inside designer Vikram Goyal's Art Deco villa in New Delhi
The furniture designer has filled a 1950s-era Deco house near Humayun's Tomb with family heirlooms, brocades and his own work.
Vikram Goyal, the furniture designer and self-described "craft revivalist" behind Vikram Goyal Studio and the lifestyle brand Viya, has moved back to the neighbourhood he grew up in. It is a small green quarter, established in the early 1950s, between Delhi's Old Fort and Humayun's Tomb: central, as he puts it, but away from the hullabaloo. Guests are often surprised that his three-storey stucco house is Art Deco, a style India took up in the late 1920s and kept as a sign of modernity after independence.
The house set the tone itself, with a staircase of clef-shaped railings and matcha-green terrazzo steps, and 12-foot ceilings that are rare in height-restricted Delhi. Goyal limited the building work to essential repairs and enlarging the kitchen and one dining room, then outlined walls and windows in black moulding for a tuxedo effect. The red-lacquered dining room glitters with Gujarati mirror work, while a second has his Garden of Life panels made with de Gournay.
Family pieces hold their own: his grandfather's chairs, which visitors likened to Mackintosh, now seated in yellow Benares brocade, alongside Pichwai textile paintings, miniatures and works by Jamini Roy, Dayanita Singh and M.F. Husain.
A private home, so nothing to visit, but a rich read for anyone curious about Indian Deco or Goyal's storytelling furniture.
Our summary of a story from Architectural Digest, published 14 October 2026. Read the original
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