Bombay Deco by Sharada Dwivedi and Rahul Mehrotra. Published in 2024 by Pictor Publishing 152, Maharshi Karve Rd, Opp Oval Maidan, Bombay 400020; website: www.pictorpublishing.com; email: padmini1@pictorpublishing.com. Pp: 239. Price: Not mentioned.
With its large size, lavish illustrations and heavy art paper, Bombay Deco, authored by Sharada Dwivedi and Rahul Mehrotra, might have qualified as a coffee table book were it not for the quality and extent of its pertinent, engrossing and authentic text which lifts it above that genre.
Sharada Dwivedi (l) and Rahul Mehrotra
The first edition of the book was published in 2008, and was then the first detailed survey......