5 most beautiful celebrity homes with striking consoles

Shalini Passi, her husband Sanjay, and son Robin, live in a sweeping curve of a home in New Delhi’s posh Golf Links neighbourhood. The house, shaped like a gentle boomerang, overlooks the 220 rolling, bucolic acres of the Delhi Golf Club; on some days you can even hear the whack of a Callaway on the 8th tee. Shalini’s house, however, is anything but bucolic—instead it is astonishing, filled, as it is, with art from floor to ceiling. The house is made for art. A 17th-century William and Mary style cabinet? Why not? A magnificent 19th-century French ormolu clock atop an Italian console? For sure. In the formal dining room, under the light of the copper pendant cluster by Tom Dixon is a stunning console. On it, beneath the late-18th-century portrait, is a 1970s rock-crystal lamp. In another room, a Hervé Van Der Straeten console for Ralph Pucci anchors the space, its sculptural lines complemented by a late-18th-century French clock.

Original text by Nikhil Khanna, edited for context

A Signature Console Greets Visitors In Manish Malhotra’s Bandra Townhouse

The entrance foyer always has fresh flowers on top of a chequered console table by Gauri Khan; an Andy Warhol-esque Marilyn Monroe artwork by Chintan Upadhyay is mounted on the adjacent wall.  “There are people who adore Monroe’s sensitivity and others who love the way she never stopped trying to make her life more fulfilling. I admire all her personality traits and this painting speaks of all her colours.” Ashish Sahi

In Manish Malhotra’s five-floor townhouse, located in a leafy bylane of Bandra’s Pali Hill, it comes as no surprise that his home is also a natural reflection of his design sensibility. Malhotra moved into this townhouse, an anomaly in a city known for its towering skyscrapers, seven years ago, and along with designer Kunal Shah, set out to remodel the space to create a haven for him and his parents with their own personal floors, a lounge and dining area, and the terrace, all in line with vastu and feng shui principles. The entrance foyer always has fresh flowers on top of a chequered console table by Gauri Khan, while an Andy Warhol-esque Marilyn Monroe artwork by Chintan Upadhyay is mounted on the adjacent wall.