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PASSAGE TO INDIA

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Handpainted sliding Rajasthani doors open up to the formal reception room of Bollywood actress Tarina Patel’s Sandton home. Tarina, clad in one of her wedding garments – a hand-embroidered by Sabyasachi Mukherjee – stands next to a pale wooden chair from Laxmi Vilas Palace in Vadodara in Gujarat, India; designed to emulate the interior courtyard-style layout of the Samode Palace in Jaipur, the lounge space is adorned with murals that were handpainted by a team

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