Dinnerware forms part of the home collection at Abraham & Thakore, alongside the New Delhi house's clothing in Indian handloom textiles. Aman Khanna hand-forms stoneware and clay figures at Claymen, with pinched faces appearing across its sculptural objects. Vases and tableware join the studio's sculptures, whose forms explore the common man and everyday dilemmas. Good Earth CP offers hand-painted ceramics and Mughal-inspired tableware, with silk cushions and home fragrances extending its household range.
David Abraham and Rakesh Thakore build their New Delhi design house on Indian handloom textiles cut into spare, modern silhouettes of kurtas, saris, shirts and dresses. The label extends into a home collection of dinnerware, candles and cloth, and has shown at the V&A and Liberty London.
Best for Handloom textiles and minimalist Indian fashion
Artist Aman Khanna hand-forms Claymen's small clay figures and stoneware in New Delhi, sun-drying and open-firing pieces that dwell on the common man and his dilemmas. The studio's vases, sculptures and tableware carry the pinched, introspective faces that have become its signature.
Nicobar offers contemporary clothing and homeware through a collection that describes its design perspective as rooted in India. Its home range includes tableware and serving pieces alongside decorative objects, with clothing available for women and men. Gifts can therefore range from something for the dining table to a wearable item, rather than one narrow product category.
Best for Contemporary clothing, tableware and gifts for the home
Nicobar is a lifestyle brand whose identity is modern, with mindful design rooted in India. The range moves between clothing and the home. One design language connects women's and men's wear with dining and textiles, then extends further to furniture and gifts. Nico Core provides a recurring foundation, while NicoSera is presented as an evening edit. A named collaboration with Rajesh Pratap Singh adds another authored collection within the clothing programme. Home categories are equally specific: dinner sets, serveware and drinkware, with table linen beside barware. Storage and lighting occupy related categories with decorative objects. The Singleton Social collaboration appears among Nicobar's home collections. Gifting is treated as its own service through a concierge, e-gift cards and occasion-led selections. This structure makes Nicobar different from a fashion label that merely adds a few accessories. Clothing, table rituals and interiors are developed as parallel expressions of the same India-rooted point of view. Named collections prevent that breadth from becoming anonymous. Nico Core supplies continuity while NicoSera defines a particular time of day, and designer collaborations introduce a distinct author. Together they give the merchant a legible framework across apparel and objects alongside gifts.
A design store selling tableware, lighting, decor, and furniture that combines traditional craft processes with contemporary design. Ayush Kasliwal and Geetanjali Kasliwal created the store.
Best for Tableware, lighting, and furniture blending traditional craft with contemporary design
Anantaya is a Jaipur design house founded by the husband-and-wife team Ayush and Geetanjali Kasliwal, who built the business around collaboration with master artisans across India rather than factory production. The company's stated philosophy holds that objects carry memory, becoming, when shaped with purpose, "vessels of meaning, culture, and quiet impact." Its collections span tableware, lighting, furniture and home decor, produced using natural, responsibly sourced materials and rooted in centuries-old regional craft traditions reinterpreted for contemporary use. The Kasliwals' work has drawn sustained recognition: Anantaya has received the UNESCO Seal of Excellence on four separate occasions, the World Craft Council Award of Excellence in 2022, and was named Craft Brand of the Year the same year. Ayush Kasliwal individually holds an EDIDA Designer of the Year title (2013) and a Lexus Design Award (2019), while Geetanjali Kasliwal has received the COWE India Excellence Award (2022) and recognition from FICCI FLO for women's entrepreneurship. In 2018, Architectural Digest named the practice among the 100 Most Influential Design Firms in the Indian Subcontinent. The Jaipur store operates from the Narain Niwas Palace complex, pairing the Kasliwals' design-led approach with the city's living craft economy of block carvers, metalworkers and weavers.
Soma sells block-printed bed linen, tableware, clothing, bags and curtains from its Jaipur bungalow store. Repeated textiles connect home and wardrobe pieces, making print scale and dye variation worth examining.
Best for Block-printed bed linen, sarees, and garments from a bungalow store
Shilp Guru Gopal Saini, a 2009 National Award winner named a Master Craftsman in 2016, shapes quartz-frit dough into the cobalt-and-white pottery synonymous with Jaipur from his studio in Sanganer. His daughter Garima now paints and designs alongside him, adding contemporary forms to florals and geometric motifs on vases, tiles, and tableware rooted in the Persian-derived craft.
The Kumawat family has worked quartz-frit pottery since Bhag Chand Kumawat revived the craft in 1965 and opened a Sanganer workshop in 1969, tracing the family's ties to blue pottery back to the era of Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II. Every family member takes part in some stage of the making, producing hand-painted tiles, doorknobs, soap dishes, and tableware alongside decorative pieces.
Best for Hand-painted blue pottery tiles and homeware