In Mumbai, Bangalore and New Delhi, studios and designers have been connecting with team members through craft, while stepping back to appreciate local sources, writes our design editor
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India’s fertile ground of natural source has been key for Paul’s team during lockdown. ‘My colleague Ragini is exploring the same form in bamboo and cane as she has access to these materials in her hometown. Another designer from our team has access to copper sheets and is exploring the hardware to go along with the leather piece in copper and glass enamel.’
This ignited her team to search locally too – her ceramicist Khanmuh Sasa who is from Longpi, Manipur, north east India found inspiration during a trip to the market. ‘He came back and drew the pumpkin he bought, and sent it to me,’ says Gopal. ‘The next day he made it into a into a, he made it so beautifully and so easily into a little pumpkin pot. He sliced off the top and made it like a lid.
Gopal has been using her brand’s platform on social media to reveal these maker stories, and since lockdown, she has been hosting talks with craft communities – ‘[we are about] investing in people. And I think that that’s central to any craft-based business, which operates in this way, where you’re working remotely with artisans. But you have to invest in them. And you have to invest in resources, you have to invest in space.
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