Shahi Poshak

Traditionally, Indian royals have been the biggest patrons of good design. They not only nurtured the local craft of their kingdom but also attracted the finest, avant-garde in design and luxury from across the globe. Many present day heirs of this legacy continue to recreate the glorious past through their own design sensibility and inherited eye. Designers in their own right, they recreate history in a contemporary mould. A very richly designed exhibition that re-creates the ‘living room of the royals’, SHAHI POSHAK narrates the romantic fairy-tale of life lived in a palace. It presents heritage inspired fashion, art and lifestyle that has been brought to life in ateliers housed within quaint havelis and historic forts and palaces. Everything they create is deeply inspired by a regal past, yet it is reproduced to fit contemporary life-styles. The trick is in making old turn new, the intricate simple and that which is heritage, very modern. This is the singular element that inspires this show. SHAHI POSHAK simply echoes that, demystifying royal designs of the glorious past into a modern idiom for connoisseurs of today.