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Presenting AD’s November-December 2026 cover: The enduring genius of Satish Gujral (@gujralfoundation)
Satish Gujral’s practice moved across disciplines, materials and scales, continually challenging the boundaries between art and architecture. The cover of our November–December issue brings this breadth into focus, through works that reflect his creative world and the people and ideas that shaped it.
Designed by Gujral in collaboration with architect Raj Rewal, his Delhi home was later converted into a gallery by his son, architect Mohit Gujral. The renovation stripped the structure back to its brickwork and introduced white walls, while preserving a curved ceramic wall by Gujral’s wife, the artist Kiran Gujral. For our cover photograph, a metal relief mural by Satish, created years earlier, was brought into the gallery and photographed alongside Kiran’s ceramic work. One belongs to an earlier chapter of the family’s life; the other has remained part of the home through its many changes. The living room that once resonated with conversations among family and friends is now part of a gallery where people gather around art and architecture. The photograph brings these different moments into relation, offering a glimpse of the many strands of Gujral’s creative life. His movement between painting, sculpture, murals and architecture was informed by lived experience and cultural influences, and by a willingness to continually rethink the possibilities of each medium.
In the centenary year of his birth, Gujral’s work offers a way into Reclamation: an exploration of what we inherit, what we choose to carry forward, and the new possibilities that emerge when we look at it afresh. This question runs through the issue, from architecture and art to design and the objects that hold personal and collective histories.
AD’s November-December issue on stands today.
Head of Editorial: Mrinalini Ghadiok (@ghadiok)
Photography & Contributing Art Director: Ashish Sahi (@ashishsahi)
Writer: Vishal K Dar (@vishalkdar)
Styling: Raahul Kukreja (@raahulkukreja)
Senior Visuals Editor: Harshita Nayyar (@harshitanayyar_)
Satish Gujral’s practice moved across disciplines, materials and scales, continually challenging the boundaries between art and architecture. The cover of our November–December issue brings this breadth into focus, through works that reflect his creative world and the people and ideas that shaped it.
Designed by Gujral in collaboration with architect Raj Rewal, his Delhi home was later converted into a gallery by his son, architect Mohit Gujral. The renovation stripped the structure back to its brickwork and introduced white walls, while preserving a curved ceramic wall by Gujral’s wife, the artist Kiran Gujral. For our cover photograph, a metal relief mural by Satish, created years earlier, was brought into the gallery and photographed alongside Kiran’s ceramic work. One belongs to an earlier chapter of the family’s life; the other has remained part of the home through its many changes. The living room that once resonated with conversations among family and friends is now part of a gallery where people gather around art and architecture. The photograph brings these different moments into relation, offering a glimpse of the many strands of Gujral’s creative life. His movement between painting, sculpture, murals and architecture was informed by lived experience and cultural influences, and by a willingness to continually rethink the possibilities of each medium.
In the centenary year of his birth, Gujral’s work offers a way into Reclamation: an exploration of what we inherit, what we choose to carry forward, and the new possibilities that emerge when we look at it afresh. This question runs through the issue, from architecture and art to design and the objects that hold personal and collective histories.
AD’s November-December issue on stands today.
Head of Editorial: Mrinalini Ghadiok (@ghadiok)
Photography & Contributing Art Director: Ashish Sahi (@ashishsahi)
Writer: Vishal K Dar (@vishalkdar)
Styling: Raahul Kukreja (@raahulkukreja)
Senior Visuals Editor: Harshita Nayyar (@harshitanayyar_)
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