Be Vintage!

Be Vintage creates home decor items with a vintage look complete with distressed finish and fun, bright colours.Young entrepreneurs Grishma, Abhineet and Monica with varied backgrounds have teamed up to develop a line of unique vintage style Victorian and French-inspired furniture .

Their items first range from frames, keyholders,wall hangings to furniture and showcase featured cabinets, chairs, nightstands, wooden trunks, etc., Their USP are the wood printed decor products. It's a new technique wherein an image is printed on wood.They source images online, treat them a certain way, add filters, etc., and then print them on wood. While most of their furniture is made of pine wood, Beech, Acacia and African Teak, they are open to customisation. They have also developed their own paints to get the distressed look for their furniture.They primarily sell through Facebook and one-off exhibitions but have now started stocking their products at a couple of boutiques in the city.  hoping to change the way into something beautiful and unusual.

Some of them which i love from their collections are here :)-

All images courtesy..Be Vintage

The House of Things

The House of Things says..Beautiful,Rare and Inspired..very true!

The House of Things is a curated marketplace,a beautiful concept store for all world renowned brands under a shop.Surprised seeing all fine furniture and resplendent paintings to exceptional curios, precious jewels, sculptures, antiquities, rugs, and accessories - each of their objects has remarkable workmanship and soul.Thinking of the joy each object that brings beauty and joy to the respective homes.

Their curatorial team of experts meticulously puts together a personal selection of poetic objects, sourced from travels across the globe and serendipitous findings.The unique offerings also include a selection created from artistic collaborations. For those who appreciate character in design, we showcase a range of products made by established designers and artisans, specially crafted for those seeking out pieces that are marked 'special'. They endeavour to give us the opportunity to discover the exquisite and timeless, sharing the joy of collecting unique items that excel in originality and transcend trend.

The house of things is the creativity of Astha Khetan. Astha started her work life at a London based digital media agency, and then returned to India to manage Unilever's special projects. Her spirited love for handicrafts and penchant for travel inspired her to launch The House Of Things. The key team also includes Sabina Chopra and Manish prakash who have worked with numerous product designers. 

Thanks Surbhi Gandhi for reaching out to me and letting me know about the new venture.

                                            All images respective to their artists

"Studio Wood Collective"

Amazing and Brilliant reinventions in wood or a breath of fresh air of interior design or Zen spaces /corners for your house are now possible with a little bit of magic from Studio Wood Collective. 
As i walked into their SWC Garage sale,i could sense the ever enthusiastic bunch of people behind this collective who had invited me over and over again and again.

Thanks for the invite Gazal.

 Amazingly crafted end products  that demand their own corner.A Zen like feel in each corner.

Studio Wood Collective was created by product designer Vrinda Mathur along with Graphic designer Gazal Bawa, Space designer Navya Aggarwal and architect Sahej Bhatia. In the young team’s words, as told to "Nestopia"

“With the belief that all big things have small beginnings, we conceptualized the Studio Wood Collective with an objective to rediscover the potential of used furniture pieces and deconstruct their existing form, whilst enlivening the product with a brand new look.”

The collective is supported in terms of infrastructure and manufacturing facilities by Vrinda’s parent’s furniture manufacturing unit, Studio Wood. Infact, the factory floor of Studio Wood was where Vrinda saw pieces of furniture that had seen better days hidden away and recognised their potential. Realizing that the idea needed more than one brain working on it, she called out to her fellow designers and the collective was born.

Bulbs inserted in repurposed wood

Legs fitted in to a drawer and niches created

inverted V table

jenga cabinet

edison bulbs in apulley..vintage lighting

repurposed drawer

2 way use for stacking tables

a corner in the garage sale

the collective 4 group

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Idea and images:Lakshmi Arvind