Collective memory revisited

Sabyasachi’s museum-worthy store in Delhi’s Mehrauli brings fashion, jewellery, accessories, and art together as one
Collective memory revisited
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Stepping into Sabyasachi’s new Delhi flagship is less a shopping trip than a fever dream of colour, craft, and Kolkata. Spread across 26,000 sqft in Mehrauli, the space unfolds like a maximalist journey through the designer’s cultural imagination—from Chowringhee and Hogg Market to old North Calcutta homes, railway carriages, trams and Kashmiri houseboats.

Around 120 chandeliers, nearly 200 antique carpets, 300 paintings from the Sabyasachi Art Foundation and more than 100 antique textiles, mirrors and historic objects create a richly layered universe where fashion, jewellery, art and craft collide. Signature embroidery spills across walls and ceilings, while stone, wood, metal, glass and textiles spotlight the artisans and specialist makers behind the house’s maximalist language. A tram-inspired room, complete with etched star-cut glass and a life-size Bengal Tiger, turns nostalgia into theatre. Elsewhere, the intimate customer lounge channels the Bengali nach ghar, with pink marble, laterite, sculpture and layered textiles setting the scene for Darjeeling tea and old-school hospitality.

“I have never believed that a luxury store should simply sell products. It should inspire curiosity, preserve culture, and create memory,” says Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Founder and Creative Director. The result is a flagship that feels part museum, part salon, part theatre—and unmistakably Sabyasachi: extravagant, eccentric, and gloriously alive.

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