Indian properties are welcoming change by making room for tales, craft, and lore from throughout the nation. A various set of homegrown studios that celebrates craftsmanship and native methods is providing patrons creations that replicate the ethos of their living areas.
1. Bram Woodcrafting Studio Pvt Ltd., Mysore
Cana Cane Living Set
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On The Move Island
A sprawling wooden crafting workshop was began by Bram Rouws in Mysuru in 2017, after his transfer from Limoges. The studio’s experience is stable woodwork, creating bespoke furniture, cabins, and inside options.
Bram Rouws
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BWS
“Detail-orientation is paramount. By merging traditional methods with modern functionality, we arrive at eternally durable pieces that fit right in across genres of spaces,” shares Rouws. He and his 135-member staff comprising makers and designers predict a palpable shift in direction of less complicated, environment friendly processes and design strategies with seismic emphasis on sustainability.
Louis XV Paris Bistro Bar Unit
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Anirudh Shankar
Some of BWS’s latest creations embrace the Louis XV Paris Bistro Bar Unit, the Cana Cane Living Set, and the Taro Armchair, all stemming from a minimalist tackle rooted materiality.
Price: From ₹60,000 upwards | woodcrafting.in
2. The Vernacular Modern, Bengaluru
Akhara Sandhara Table
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Jubin Johnson – Hansöga Photography
The brainchild of Abhirup Dutta and Deeptashree Saha, The Vernacular Modern’s DNA has been reviving coveted conventional practices and materiality that handle the wants of contemporary spatial environments.
Abhirup Dutta and Deeptashree Saha
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Jubin Johnson – Hansöga Photography
With a staff of 15 members working intimately with artisans, the studio’s christened identify strives to carry on to native knowledge. They harness myriad methods — Mysuru’s wooden inlay craft, Madur and Khesh weaving from West Bengal’s provinces, using pink soil, clay, and papier-mâché — to create a distinctive composite hailing from the Western frontiers.
Vanar Tirai Partition System
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Suryan _ Dang
Their latest explorations embrace the Co-Existence and Mitti Series. The former revives artwork varieties via motifs of fauna in artwork and furniture, whereas the latter derives inspiration from the fundamental composition of archetypal mud homes.
Price: From ₹30,000 upwards | thevernacularmoder.com
3. Madras Makers, Chennai
Project Living Room
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Madras Makers
Nestled in Chennai’s Ramapuram, Madras Makers, helmed by Prem Balasubramanian, Prashant Balasubramanian, and Carola Winnie, creates furniture that encapsulates town’s pulse.
Carola Winnie and Prem Balasubramanian
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Madras Makers
Founded in 2013, their design apply’s creations are a mosaic of a number of tenets from Danish masters like Finn Juhl, Hans Wegner, and Arne Jacobsen. Their 20-member troop of designers, smiths, and craftsmen carry information learnt and handed on via apprenticeship. “We are here to build furniture that outlives trends and is heirloom grade,” observe Winnie and Balasubramanian.
Connemara Nightstand
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Madras Makers
Reclaimed Burma and Balharshah teak from outdated colonial buildings in Chennai is commonly the hero materials, punctuated by rosewood, mahogany, African wenge, and hand-split Assamese rattan.
Price: ₹40,000 upwards | madrasmakers.com
4. Gunava Design, Chennai
Knoll Centre Table
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Venky Prash
Brewing a synergy between minimalism and playful expression, Chennai-based Gunava Design’s power lies in creating versatile items that transcend time whereas underscoring character.
Vaishnovi Reddy
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Gunava Design
Founded by Vaishnovi Reddy in 2019, the studio champions a layered palette of ceramics, stone, cane, and metals in tandem with wooden. Their in-house staff dabbles in artisan-led methods, embroidery being a recurrent denominator of their latest creations.
Palm Lamp
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Chaithraa Jagadeesha
“Design in our mind’s eye is a means to enhance a user’s experience, ensuring that each creation serves a purpose while celebrating an overruling aesthetic,” says Reddy.
Price: From ₹25,000 upwards | gunavadesign
5. Design ni Dukaan: Ahmedabad
The Banu Pai Cabinet
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Kush Lapani
Established in 2013, Design ni Dukaan is a multidisciplinary, community-based apply that has lengthy attributed its inventive success to the collective’s imaginative and prescient. Architect Veeram Shah’s agency works throughout structure, inside design, and furniture design, showcasing the various abilities of its staff members.
Veeram Shah
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Ravi Mistry
“We believe that once the essence of an entity is realised, it can be deconstructed and interpreted in numerous ways while still adhering to its purest form. Once you understand the truth of a material, it becomes timeless,” shares Shah. Their explorations embrace working with textiles, micro-concrete, terrazzo, brass patina, and burnt wooden. The Banu Pai cupboard is a latest collaboration with The Majja Design Studio. The wardrobe is transfigured into a canvas of woven mats (Pathamadai Pai) from Tirunelveli.
Price: From ₹35,000 upwards | designnidukaan.com
6. Sage Living: Hyderabad
Ori Coffee Table
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Rohit Bijoy
Keerthi Tummala’s design intuition and Ram Kabadi’s acumen for materiality have been assembly underneath the roof of their Hyderabad facility, since 2018.
Keerthi Tummala and Ram Kabadi
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Rohit Bijoy
Sage Living’s latest collections deal with discovering inspiration nearer to dwelling, a saga deeply embedded within the Deccan. They experiment with mixtures of stone and metallic, using historic methods like sand-casting, forging, and stone inlay.
Ori Dual Floor Mirror
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Rohit Bijoy
Quarried from the Kadapa basin, pyrite (dubbed idiot’s silver) undergoes a drastic transformation of their Starlight Collection, preserving its power whereas perfecting its reflective end.
Tummala and Kabadi imagine that collectible design and sculptural parts will influence areas now, greater than ever. These sculptural accents are as a lot about creating an immersive environment as they’re about investing in distinctive works.
Price: From ₹55,000 upwards | sageliving.in
The author is an architect and design specialist.
Published – February 28, 2025 04:52 pm IST
