An enduring paradox in Indian cultural history, Dashrath Patel moved fluidly between art, design, education, photography, and nation-building, yet remains scarcely documented. From sharing Bhulabhai Desai Studios with modernist pioneers to shaping NID Ahmedabad alongside global visionaries, to pioneering multi-screen projections and rural design initiatives, his legacy resists easy categorisation. Optimistic, rigorous, and deeply grounded, Dashrath lived by making. This archive stands as a personal and professional tribute—from guru to inheritor—folded, fittingly, into the present retrospective.

Visit The Ramp from 18th January onwards, to discover an archive that contextualises Dashrath Patel within the continuum of Indian art and design.

Nilaya Anthology invites you to a series of curated walkthroughs of The Turning Point, The Pinakin Patel retrospective. Led by voices who have lived, documented, and participated in his journey over the years, these sessions offer an intimate way to experience the show. Manju Sara Rajan, Pavitra Rajaram, and the Nilaya Anthology team offer layered perspectives on 50 years of practice, philosophy, and essentialism.

Registrations are now open via Urbanaut.

Along Bombay’s curve of sea and skyline, design has always mirrored the city’s rhythm. Marine Drive Graffiti revisits the exuberance of the Art Deco era—its glamour, geometry, and cultural symbols—translating that spirit into contemporary form. In this collection of bar cabinets, designer Bobby Aggarwal distills that cultural pulse into modern materiality, reinterpreting the bas-reliefs, ziggurats, chevrons and architectural motifs that still line the Queen’s Necklace.

Visit Gallery 2 to experience a tactile homage to an era defined by the city’s creative optimism.

The Turning Point is Anthology's first retrsopective that traces the life and work of one of Indian design’s most pioneering and prolific voices–Pinakin Patel–across 50 years of his practice. It is a reflection on places, philosophies, friendships, and lived experience that shaped not only his worldview, but the contours of contemporary Indian design as we know it today. Through 11 seminal works, curated objects from his expansive personal collection, and a focused presentation from the Dashrath Patel archive, of which Pinakin is a custodian, the exhibition maps a practice formed through observation, reinvention, and inner stillness—revealing a creative life that is shaped not by one, but many moments of both departure and return.

Visit the two Galleries from 18th January onwards, to experience a retrospective that traces the quiet, cumulative turning points of a life in design.