This issue is full of stories from the extraordinary year we have spent at home.

AD India turns nine this month and, as is tradition, we’ve kept the best homes we know of for our anniversary issue.

Jaw-dropping and envy-inducing homes that gloriously have nothing to do with Covid-19.

In an exclusive for AD, artist Shilpa Gupta photographs this series set within her Mumbai home, of an empty PPE suit, almost as if trapped in its domestic setting and marking one year of learning to live in a state of isolation and uncertainty but also resilience and community.

How do hygiene and luxury bathroom fittings go hand in hand. We use the mantra of wash your hands to showcase the same.