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Rajasthan Style: India’s Magical Palaces, Forts, and CampsRajasthan Style: India’s Magical Palaces, Forts, and Camps
Rajasthan Style: India’s Magical Palaces, Forts, and Camps

Rajasthan Style: India’s Magical Palaces, Forts, and Camps

By Melissa Biggs Bradley
Photography by Guido Taroni
$85.00

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A richly photographed exploration of  Rajasthan’s palaces, forts, and cultural traditions, capturing its vibrant colors, artisanal heritage, and majestic landscapes through Melissa Biggs Bradley’s insightful writing and Guido Taroni’s striking photography.

Welcome to Rajasthan—India’s storied “Land of Kings”— where travelers and design devotees have long been captivated by dramatic landscapes, princely architecture, and a visual culture shaped over centuries. Melissa Biggs Bradley’s narrative delves into Rajasthan’s living traditions of craftsmanship, illuminating how beauty, spirituality, reverence for nature, and ancient wisdom are woven into material culture—from palaces and jewels to textiles, tassels, and everyday objects. Guido Taroni’s lens reveals the region’s extraordinary visual range, from carved temples and lakeside palaces to desert forts, embroidered textiles, intricate stonework, and opulent interiors, all layered with history, mysticism, and myth.

Together, text and image reveal a culture in which design is inseparable from ritual, meaning, and place. Highlighting Rajasthan’s most unforgettable architecture, interiors, textiles, and art, Rajasthan Style opens the door to an enchanted world—one that continues to inspire contemporary design, travel, and the imagination.

Hardcover
550 color illustrations
336 pages
9.25 × 12 in. (23.5 x 30.5 cm.)
ISBN: 978-0-86565-481-5
US $85 / CAN $116 / GBP £70
Publishing date: September 2026

Former travel editor at Town & Country, in 2007 Melissa Biggs
Bradley founded the luxury trip-planning company and travel media platform Indagare, which curates transformative travel experiences around the world. She has explored more than 115 countries and often leads Indagare Insider Journeys, curated small-group itineraries centered on diverse passion points - from art, design, history, and culture to food, wine, and outdoor adventures. Bradley is the author of Vendome’s Safari Style and hosts a travel podcast, Passport to Everywhere.

Guido Taroni is a leading photographer specializing in fashion and interiors. Inspired by his uncle, renowned fashion photographer Giovanni Gastel, Taroni has forged a characteristic style that has seen his work regularly exhibited as well as featured in iconic design publications such as T Magazine, Cabana, The World of Interiors, and Architectural Digest. He is the great-nephew of Luchino Visconti, director of the classic 1963 film The Leopard, set in Sicily. His many books for Vendome include Inside Sicily, Inside Tangier, Inside Milan, Inside Yucatán, and Safari Style, among others. He lives in Milan.