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Your home can get an artistic twist thanks to these funky new designs from across the country

Your home can get an artistic twist thanks to these funky new designs from across the country

Wired up
If a traditional take on things is more your cup of tea, Ayush Kasliwal has the perfect table to set that cup on. A furniture design graduate from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, he uses local crafts to make artefacts, accessories, the textiles and furniture at his studio in Jaipur. “We use stone, marble, laquer, wood etc. We even have glasswork and weaving incorporated in our work. I get bird cages to be made into outdoor lamps. Lightweight and low maintainance, these are ideal for the garden. We used wires to make the table, there are candlestands made of stone. People tell us what they are looking for and we get it done,”he says.
Ayush Kasliwal Design Pvt Ltd. B6/A1 Prithviraj Road, Jaipur 302 001. Tel: 0141-2362863 akfdstudio.com
price: lamp (above) for rs 5,653,
wire table for rs 4,950

Fresh fun
With its funky kitsch style, The PlayClan has introduced products from lamps, cushions, bags, journals, to T-shirts and greeting cards with its playful, experimental and impulsive attitude.
“We work on a theme and the products are born out of that,” says Hemant Dongre of Play Clan.
Ambassadors, autos, evening chai and gossip with a large helping of gali galouch to loveless monsters and punctured heart-shaped balloons—there is a lot of art for your sofa cushions or your table lamp from this year-old store. Play Clan is based in Delhi and supplies to Attic in Mumbai, Malini Ramani’s store in Goa.
Play Clan Store, F-51, First Floor, Select City Walk, Delhi, Tel: 011-40534559, theplayclan.com
play clan’s delhi-inspired cushions
price: rs 785 each

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Retro chic
Shilpa Kalanjee Pastala’s Venetian Retro Collection has furniture with a three-dimensional surface. It is actually a glass surface moulded into the desired shape. “Most of the furniture is hand-crafted and has a distinct Venetian technique, “ says Pastala who owns Fusion Access, a company that has been in the business for 11 years.
Fusion Access, Monica Bungalow, Ground Floor, Fazal Road, Old Cuffe Parade, Mumbai – 400 005. Tel: 22154541 / 22152978 / 22160682
price: the venetian collection ranges between

In waiting
Would you like a ‘stooch’ for your home? Confused? Trupti Mehta, who is pursuing a post-graduate diploma in industrial design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, explains, “It is a folding chair and a stool, so the name, stooch. It is a multifunctional object. It is a chair but when you fold and put the back rest down it becomes a stool.” With the name decoded, it could be easier to warm up to the red and steel sculpture. Through its inanimate beauty, the ‘stooch’ according to its creator depicts emotion nothing less than love itself. “I used the colour red to get this across.” This artistic variation of the humble chair got Trupti a place at Europe’s top design school, Istituto Marangoni, thanks to the Elle Decor International Design Awards this year. “I would like to prototype it soon. And open my own store as soon as I get back,” says Trupti.

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