We're sure a lot of you might have visited the famous 'Vintage Gully' store in Lado Sarai, right? Well, we've got a big update for you, the store's name has now been changed to 'The Heritage' but it still feels and smells like an old ancestral home. In fact, when we asked the friendly owner, Arvind Bhalla, told us that some of the furniture pieces were probably as old as our grandparents – going back 80-90 years. They are sourced from Gujarat, Bengal, and parts of UP and brought to his studio where they’re all restored. Now, they've opened a new store in Greater Kailash and it's just as pretty too!
There’s a whole world of carved wooden almirahs, tables, dressers, wall-mounted mirrors and lights, four poster beds, sofas and more calling out to you. If you’re as lucky (we were!), you might even catch a glimpse of the restoration process in the making The Heritage not just a soul-less shop but but a nice ride on a time machine.
Meanwhile, we’re happily going on a nostalgia trip, thinking of big khaandani bungalows in Hindi films where the heroines wore tops with fluffy shoulder pads and rich daddyji met high profile smugglers to discuss business deals. Sigh…The Heritage (a.k.a. the old Vintage Gully) be giving awesome Bollywood flashbacks…