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aking up in my flat on the morning of Wednesday, papier-mâché boxes I bought in Srinagar or it will
18 March felt like a bit of a treat. I couldn’t remem- make me a nervous wreck.
ber a time when I’d woken up here and not felt total
panic that I was late for the office or the airport. On There’s even been a bit of DIY: removing an inter-
that naive first morning of lockdown, before I’d read nal door to create one long entrance out of two nar-
the news, it felt nice not to have to jump out of bed row hallways; taking down mosquito nets from win-
like a lunatic. dows, which has brought in more light; and adding
red light bulbs at the entrance for a sexy (not seedy)
I reached for a T-shirt from the cabin trolley that surprise to an interior otherwise low on colour.
lay open at the end of my bed. For years, I’d travelled
so fast that I’d lived out of a suitcase. It only took a Like all new love affairs, the whole me-and-my-
week before I put the luggage away and started using flat thing has played out on Instagram. I’ve been
wardrobes like everyone else. I have a wardrobe mal- posting pictures of the old Minton floor tiles, of the
function of sorts—I need to stand on my tiptoes to cushion-laden daybed, of the chiku tree that is so
reach the hangers. Note to self: must order a little close I can pick fruit from my bedroom window.
stool. How many notes like this have we made over They certainly do better than a selfie. Like fluffy
the last seven months, as we all get comfortable? cats, I have discovered that an elegant chequerboard
hallway is always a winner on Instagram. Yet I am
I thought I’d make myself some toast but there aware that much is missing from the pictures I post.
wasn’t a toaster. Tea? Turns out I didn’t even have a
kettle. But what I did find was a fabulous antique For a start, you’d never guess how cold it is in here.
plate from Nagaland that I refashioned into a little The AC in my flat is set permanently at 16 degrees,
podium for my laptop, and took position on the greeting anyone I open the front door to with a wall
sofa in my living room for the first Zoom call with of cold that makes them take two steps back. I’ve
my team. How great does that look? And so begins lived in Mumbai for five years and love everything
the story of how I finally got to know my own about it except the weather. I can’t take the heat.
home—a lockdown romance if ever there was one.
Also, you can’t smell the roses. Or at least the
Today, my one-bedroom apartment doesn’t look cabbage-like foliage and balloon flowers that stylist
like it did seven months ago. Not at all. Before, it Priyanka Shah has been sending ever since I noticed
felt half lived-in and, at the wrong side of 35, a little the blooms she sourced for our July-August still-life
bit studenty. In fact, the first time my girlfriends cover. How cool does the Amaranthus look on that
from Paris came to stay, one by one they checked green marble coffee table by Case Design? After a
into the hotel next door. My parents did the same. few disasters with trees that I watched wither away,
But every day during lockdown, there have been I’m a total convert to foliage at home. Please do stop
tweaks to the placement of objects, a spot of home me if I ever veer into flower arranging.
improvement, and a search along the lines of ‘where
to buy a light bulb in Mumbai’. Slowly but surely You might get a sense of the amazing light in
my flat has evolved into a space that makes me hap- these pictures but you can’t feel the kiss of the sun.
py. I hope people will want to stay now. At 3.44pm golden hour begins, with an intense
beam of sunlight that starts on the linen bolster of
Like everyone, I’ve been on a purge, throwing my sofa. It slowly grows, crawling sexily along the
out stacks of empty Diwali hampers, millions of carpet and up the Lekha Washington ‘Dot’ chair,
magazines and a heap of emotional baggage. In stark where the rays become softer and linger until
contrast to my chaotic cabin at the office, I’ve be- around 6.14pm. I could watch this action all day.
come house-proud and a neat freak. Messy mounds
of papers have morphed into precise piles of coffee- What’s also missing in these photographs are my
table books. Beware: don’t move that Bawa ashtray neighbours. For six months, the family in the flat
from its position precisely perpendicular to the above sent me three meals a day. Can you imagine the
extreme generosity of that? The mind-boggling kind-
ness from people I barely knew before? Previously, I
had thought that a good building was one where you
didn’t see any neighbours. How wrong, how unap-
preciative, and how selfish that was. Having good
neighbours has been a saving grace and being a good
neighbour is a responsibility I had never felt before.

What I’ve learnt from my lockdown romance is
that there’s more to my home than high ceilings and
low tables. More than a space or a collection of ob-
jects, home is a sense of belonging. People keep ask-
ing me why I haven’t gone ‘home’ during lock-
down. What do they mean? It’s both joyful and
terrifying to face a reality I didn’t know until now.
This is my home.

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Above: On the high shelf in the kitchen sit some of the pottery bowls from Samos. They inspired Hogg with the idea of one
day finding a suitable home for them. Everything a cook might need is suspended from hooks in the shelf above the work
area. Facing page: Hogg bought the pair of much-mended 18th-century gilt mirrors and painted screen at an antique fair in
Toulouse. A Kingcome armchair covered in a yellow self-stripe from Nobilis-Fontan faces a folding planter’s chair purchased
from George Sherlock. The striped cotton dhurrie is from Ciancimino, while the cushion on the sofa is by Christian Lacroix.

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Above, left & right: The French bed in Hogg’s bedroom is from Judy Greenwood and has been upholstered
in antique toile de Jouy from Joanna Booth. Hogg bought the painted side table at Hepsibah Antiques.
Facing page: In a guest room, gingham from Peter Jones is tented over a French bed from Judy Greenwood.
The painted beams in the ceiling lighten the room. The double doors open on to sweet-scented datura trees.

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The colours found
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I made myself a promise in the early 1960s. I had bought with all the existing woodwork, but eventually I pre-
lots of rustic pottery bowls and dishes on Samos, and vailed upon him to preserve the lovely heavy—if ill-
had a simple tin lantern welded together before my fitting—double doors and shutters wherever possible.
eyes in a Turkish market. One day, I was certain, there At one point, in order to placate me, he sent round
would be the right place in which to put them. an apprentice to mend part of the very tumbledown
wooden trellis on the veranda. Dauntingly, the boy’s
That day arrived about 10 years ago (circa 1985) as I name was found to be Jesús, and such was his inno-
wandered through a village in the Canary Islands cence of all carpentry skills that after a week of nil
with my friend and host Christophe Gollut. Spotting productivity I would happily have crucified him.
an open padlock on a heavy wooden door, and being
naturally nosy, we pushed it open and let out yells of The use of bright colours is traditional in the islands.
pleasure. I saw it, I loved it, I had ghastly cold feet Houses are gaily painted inside and out: lilac with
and I came to an agreement with the mightily sur- chestnut, pink with green, and blue with ochre are
prised owner of the ruin all on that same day. combinations that are often sighted. The honky-tonk
of it appealed to me, so I repeated what I found.
What I now had on my hands was a double- However, I had a struggle with the decorators over the
fronted house with a fairly towny street facade, and a paint itself. They wanted emulsion and I wanted col-
much more farm-like inner courtyard and sloping our pigments in limewash. I only partially got my way.
cobbled garden on to which every single room
opened. The salon on the first floor gives on to a wide I moved in on Christmas Eve, which was the day
veranda shaded by the fine trelliswork screens (or celo- my container-load of chattels arrived from England.
sías as they are known locally) that had caused The wide truck became stuck a street away and so the
Christophe and me to scream with delight on day delivery men had to carry everything to my house. In
one. God knows how the three families who had last doing so, they lifted a large pair of 18th-century gilded-
occupied the place had managed with one tap, a few looking glasses by the delicate carving of their frames—
bare light bulbs dangerously strung about and a lone with disastrous results. We unpacked them with dis-
earth closet, but the absence of these creature com- may and took mournful snaps of the mayhem. Then
forts was a blessing, since it meant that I could work we remembered that seven people were coming to
out exactly what I needed and where it should be put. dinner and left the mess for another day.
Not that drawing up an electrical plan and drainage
system came naturally, and my forced logic in the I have gradually eliminated a lot of the stuff sent
matter has not proved entirely successful either. out from England purely on the grounds of it being
totally wrong in the house, in the light and in the
Having restored his own house nearby a few years climate. Pictures on walls, for instance, are banned.
earlier, Christophe was a boon when it came to de- Whereas in London I hang them together as close
vising my own building work plans. He bequeathed as stamps, in the Canaries there is not one any-
me Marco, who single-handedly did the lot in the where. Looking glasses, of which there are many, do
ensuing eight months. He roofed, cobbled, plas- the job of raising the horizon of furnishings above
tered, painted, wired, piped, uprooted tree stumps, the height of a chair back, creating a fascinating play
pruned the palms and more. Marco drew the line of shifting shafts of sunlight on the facing walls.
only at bashing out the eight new openings I needed
through my vastly thick walls in order to connect Other furniture has been found locally. The vil-
rooms. We felt the house might topple unless we got lage photographer, having decided to go modern,
in a man with proper electrical drilling equipment sold me two splendidly large antique chests of draw-
and reinforced steel joists to span these openings. As ers and a set of rickety chairs. Set building and stu-
nobody could remember the professional’s name he dio photography for The World of Interiors have also
became ‘RSJ’ for short, which in due course—owing been a rich resource. Who would have thought that
to Chinese whispers—evolved into ‘Irish Gay’. planks Tabby Riley painted so prettily for a shoot to
resemble Marie-Antoinette’s door cases at
It is no picnic organizing such a putting-in-order at Fontainebleau would one day get married with
long distance; one invariably remembers on the flight those curvaceous MDF legs from Jali, cut for a black
home that one’s most vital instruction was never de- antiques feature, to become my dining table?
livered. I divided my 25 days of holiday a year into six
separate visits, during each of which I spent eight Now, a decade on, it all works pretty well; I’m
hours a day with Marco, taking decisions then chang- obsessed with the garden and love the swish of the
ing my mind, sketching how things should look. I wind in my palm tree. I prune for hours without a
drew sizes and positions for new doorways, including care in the world. Some burglars dented the dream a
one that, due to my miscalculations, burst straight couple of times—they took everything electrical,
from my bathroom into the neighbours’ hall. opened a bottle of Rioja and even nicked the
screwpull (corkscrew)—but when I decided not to
It was the carpenter who held up the work most— replace any of the stolen things, I realized I hadn’t
his adherence to a mañana philosophy being abso- missed them once. Now they are gone, I can’t imag-
lutely unbending. He advised making a good bonfire ine why I later bothered to install an alarm.
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label’s obsessions with textures, new surprises, like ‘Etoile’
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OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2020 | ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST | 191

T AR N
BY CYRUS DARUWALA

SEPT

NORAH
JOonNfaEmSe,

family
and her father,
Pandit Ravi Shankar

A SONG OF SCAN THE CODE
AN EXCLUSIVE
HE

SEPT NORAH
JONES
NORAH
JOonNfaEmSe, A SONG OF

family HOPE
and her father,
Pandit Ravi Shankar

A SONG OF

HOPE

This hat is my travel TM D Bird in Sunset—
companion. It is MARÍA ALCOCER another beautiful
photo taken by
my good luck life THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST MEXICO beco.mx, one
charm. AND LATIN AMERICA REVEALS THE OBJECTS THAT of my favourite
photographers.
This impressionist REPRESENT HER PASSION FOR BEAUTIFUL MEXICAN CRAFTS
art piece is from the Espacio Positivo by
PHOTO: JOSÉ MARGALEFF. Enrique Mandujano,
Museé Marmottan Barcelona 2016.
Monet, one of my The cactus is one of
favourite museums my favourite plants.
I believe that these
in Paris. types of plants
A detail of an represent peace
illustration by and serenity in a
Pedro Friedeberg, a home.
Mexican artist and A chaquira bracelet,
designer known for made by Huichol
his surrealist work artisans, from the
filled with colour, Sierra de Nayarit,
geometry and Mexico.
religious icons. Contraluz, Biarritz
by Joaquín Sorolla—
This picture my grandfather,
of flying birds, Humberto Alcocer,
taken by Mexican sent me this
photographer beautiful postcard
beco.mx, represents from Spain.
freedom in a world This cover is very
important for me,
of chaos. since it’s my first
I have a anniversary edition
as editor-in-chief of
predilection for fine AD Mexico.
craftsmanship. This A wooden cross—a
represents architect gift from renowned
Mexican designer
Javier Sánchez’s Ezequiel Farca.
artisanal work A hand-lacquered
and etched feline
for photographer motif box crafted
Graciela Iturbide’s by artisans from
Olinalá, Guerrero,
home. Mexico.
A ceramic vase Yvonne Domenge’s
from Onora Casa, Semilla de
Opuestos in
a renowned bronze—this
design firm that piece was made
collaborates with exclusively for the
artisans from all Iconos del Diseño
over the country. awards in 2018,
which was my first
A handmade edition as editor-in-
pinewood basket chief of AD Mexico.
by artisans from the A marquetry chess
Sierra Tarahumara set by Jordanian
artisans—a souvenir
in Chihuahua, from my parents’
Mexico. trip to the country.

This trio of
handmade boxes
is a nice reminder
of one of my most
memorable trips,

to Morocco.
My favourite
notebook—it was a
gift from my best
friend, who bought
it in Portugal.
Le Corbusier’s
Hands by Andre
Wogenscky
and Louis Kahn:
Essential Texts are
two of my favourite
books, which I look
up frequently.