Tour Sabyasachi Mukherjee's maximalist Kolkata mansion
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1/5The entrance lobby of designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s Kolkata home features a Burma teak staircase, with Afghan and Turkish runners on the stairs and pichhwai paintings on the walls. The flooring pattern has been created using white and Jaisalmer yellow marble; the skirting is in unpolished granite. Photos courtesy: Björn Wallander
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2/5A Portuguese mirror, from The Raj Company (Mumbai), is the focal point for one wall in this space, which extends from the living room. The wooden pelmets are topped with a mixture of antiques and bric-a-brac the designer collected during his travels. The ceramic bust under the mirror is from a store on King’s Road, London; Chinese ginger jars, rice jars and Dutch pottery dot the space. The plantation sofa set is also from The Raj Company, upholstered in a range of fabrics—Bangladeshi nakshi kantha, Varanasi brocade and 18th-century textiles and linens from Guinevere Antiques, also on King’s Road. Mukherjee chose the vintage jade green colour for the living-room walls to match the lush garden outside. A mixture of paints were used to create this particular shade—rose pink, turquoise and moss-green, in that order, all from Asian Paints. Forty-three artists from the Sabyasachi Art Foundation then hand-painted the tropical plants on the walls, inspired by the work of French artist Henri Rousseau
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3/5The living room features a set of chesterfields custom-made by Sonal Dhingra, who was commissioned by Sabyasachi Mukherjee, with leather sourced from the Sabyasachi accessory department. The cushion upholstery is a mixture of antique textiles from the south of France, old phulkaris and rare Swat valley textiles from Afghanistan. The antique rug is from ABC Carpet & Home, New York
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4/5The breakfast room features a crockery cabinet, an heirloom, stocked with pieces that Sabyasachi Mukherjee picked up on trips around the world. Atop it are a seagrass basket, a range of pottery and a disused samovar. The table is from Pottery Barn
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5/5四柱床上以主舞台中心bedroom of Sabyasachi Mukherjee. The rattan trunk at the foot of the bed is from The Great Eastern Home, and the antique rug is from ABC Carpet & Home. The room also features a giant rendering of a date palm, an antique pichhwai in 22-karat gold, and hand-printed muslins and linen from Pottery Barn
