SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 15:

Amba on Instagram and Facebook where you can connect with Hema

Don’t miss a beautiful look inside Hema’s Art Deco home in Bombay’s Malabar Hill in House & Garden magazine UK - spotted Seema Krish textiles on Hema’s chairs (Seema was my gracious guest on Ep. 9) and some lovely photos of Hema with Sally Holkar and the Amba team in Maheshwar.

Learn more about all the incredible art, textiles, and places we discussed below:

Rehwa Society

Women Weave

Ahilya Fort in Maheshwar, home of the Holkar family, part of which they now run as a hotel

The Agnes Martin exhibition at the Guggenheim New York that inspired Hema’s previous collection

Fiona Caulfield’s brilliant Love Travel Guides

Artist William Kentridge at Kochi and at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner museum

Artist and writer Shubigi Rao

Hema’s friend and artist Lisa Barsumian

The exhibition at the Prince of Wales / CSMVS Mumbai India and the World: a History in 9 stories a collaboration with the British Museum and the National Museum, Delhi. Exhibition catalogue is here.

Stylist Ekta Rajani who styled and modeled Amba’s Indus Valley Collection

Bombay picks:

Bungalow 8

Khadi & Village Industries Emporium

Kasab

Books!

The Little Prince By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Books by the illustrator Maira Kalman

The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair

Early Indians : The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From by Tony Joseph

Louise Nicholson’s India Companion

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Special thanks to Mohit Shandilya & Rajat Upadhyay @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!