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Inside Sabyasachi’s Delhi Museum of Memories and Heritage
Sabyasachi is a fashion designer who created a very large store in Delhi.
He designed it to feel like a museum filled with beautiful and old-looking objects.
The store has chandeliers, paintings, carpets, textiles, jewellery and many small curiosities.
Its style is inspired partly by the grand homes and culture of old Calcutta.
Sabyasachi says memories and history help people understand who they are.
He especially hopes young visitors will learn from the space.
He also believes museums can help people search for reliable information in a world filled with fake news.
His store sells clothing and jewellery, but it also supports weavers and artisans.
He is working with The Metropolitan Museum of Art on jewellery inspired by Byzantine art.
Sabyasachi’s 26,000-square-foot Delhi flagship store combines fashion retail with a museum-like display of history and personal memories.
The space features 120 chandeliers, nearly 200 antique carpets, 300 original paintings and more than 100 antique textiles, mirrors and decorative objects.
The designer says the store draws on old Calcutta, European baroque design, Indian craftsmanship and objects collected or recreated by artisans near Kolkata.
Sabyasachi believes museums can help younger people understand history, develop authentic identities and distinguish truth from propaganda and misinformation.
His multi-year collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art will reinterpret museum holdings through Indian craftsmanship, beginning with Byzantine-inspired high jewellery.
- Who
- Fashion designer Sabyasachi and his artisans, alongside The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- What
- Sabyasachi has created a museum-like Delhi flagship store and announced a multi-year collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Where
- The 26,000-square-foot flagship is at One Style Mile, behind Qutb Minar in Delhi; the collaboration involves The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
- When
- The store is currently presented as a flagship space; the collaboration’s first jewellery chapter is planned for New York Fashion Week in September.
- Why
- Sabyasachi says the space is intended to preserve culture, inspire curiosity, connect people with history and support creative ecosystems, weavers and artisans.
Key facts
- Flagship location
- One Style Mile, just behind Qutb Minar, Delhi
- Store size
- 26,000 square feet
- Chandeliers
- 120
- Original paintings
- 300
- Antique carpets
- Nearly 200
- Antique textiles and objects
- More than 100 antique textiles, mirrors and decorative objects
- Museum collaboration
- A multi-year partnership with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, beginning with Byzantine-inspired high jewellery
Quotes
Sabyasachi
Indian fashion designer and creator of the Delhi flagship store
“I have never believed that a luxury store should simply sell products. It should inspire curiosity, preserve culture and create memories. Commerce may bring people through the door, but culture is what makes them return.”
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“Propaganda, fake news, what is being propagated, what is being obliterated, rewritten — where do you go to find the truth? It is in a museum.”
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