A set of bespoke decorative objects and tabletop for the Taj Palace, New Delhi — candle holders, centrepieces, a woven peacock panel and crafted accents. The small, considered things that make a grand room feel furnished rather than decorated.
A palace hotel is furnished in the particulars — what sits on the console, what holds the candles, what marks a corner. The brief here was a family of bespoke objects for the Taj Palace, each crafted rather than catalogue-bought, each able to hold its own in a grand room without shouting.
The pieces range from cast concrete and brass to ceramic and woven textile, but they share a quiet, material confidence — heavy where they should be, restrained in colour, made to be lived with.
Weight you can feel across the room.
Each object starts from its material. The candle holders pair raw cast concrete with turned brass cups; the jars are glazed ceramic with a band of colour; the panel is a woven peacock in deep indigo and gold. Nothing is finished to look expensive — it's made to be substantial, which reads as luxury more honestly than any gilding.
The set is designed to be deployed, not displayed: candle holders for a long table, a candelabra and urn for a console, jars and a book rest for the quieter corners. Together they give the property a kit of considered objects that belong to the same hand — a small, coherent language of things.
