New Delhi, May 24 -- If there were a Met Gala for books, Taste (conceptualised by journalist Lakshmi Chaudhry and published by Juggernaut) would have undoubtedly turned heads on the red carpet. Retailing at Rs.15,000, this set of two hefty volumes comes in a peachy-pink cardboard shell. Once you've unboxed the cargo, the oversized books-one edited by Chaudhry, the other by designer Tania Singh Khosla-are embellished with bells and whistles serious enough to give competition to Cardi B's costume this year.

For not only is each volume of Taste heavily illustrated, the images also come in a variety of forms: embossed, gold-tinted, as cut-outs, poster folds, meant to be viewed through multi-coloured lenses, and full of quaint quirks that wou...