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FURNITURE
TRENDS 2023

Jaipur Furniture Collection

by Sonal Tuli is Winner in Furniture Design Category, 2022 - 2023

A process of blue pottery. Many samples of crafts, techniques and materials. Once
field trip to Jaipur was the
the early sketches were ready, we ordered
were brought back to the studio to study
beginning of the research for the
Jaipur collection, to enable us to
during the design development, white
Jaipur, we witnessed a surprisingly large
breathe in the context and its true spirit. its strengths and shortcomings. While in blue pottery tiles for the collection, but
The vibrant culture has so much to offer number of peacocks in the Rambagh marble and lapis lazuli were preferred to
and the aim was to experience it directly. Palace, where we stayed, and that too fit the narrative.
The Mughal and Rajput Architecture of inspired the motifs of the collection. In the early stages of design
the region was truly inspiring, but the Bringing back photographs and videos development, blue pottery was chosen
geometry and proportions of the Hawa depicting colours, motifs, architecture, not only as the inspiration, but the tiles
Mahal left the team in awe. The form of and samples of local crafts such as blue were also conceptualised as a part of
the collection has been derived from the pottery tiles, knobs and bowls, inlay work, the material board. But, after numerous
honeycombed structure of the Hawa Tarkashi, sandstone and white marble rounds of prototyping, we found the tiles
Mahal façade. We were mesmerized by ( local stones ) helped us put together to be too fragile , and hence, white marble,
the colours and patterns of blue pottery the concepts and material board in the a stronger material that would give the
and so followed a visit to the local craft very beginning. Dialogues with local same ethnic feel as pottery was chosen
village of Kot Jewar to understand the craftsmen helped with the understanding and in the process, another traditional

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