Chaudharāin · A material-first design practice · India
How does this material want to live in a contemporary home?
Chaudharāin · A material-first design practice · India
The inheritance we stopped using
Terracotta. Lacquered wood. Cast brass. Wrought iron. These materials never disappeared. The craftsmen still exist. But somewhere the craft object stopped reading as home and started reading as souvenir.
Chaudharāin exists to close that gap.
Collection 01 — Zevar · Rituals in lacquered wood
A bench that moves like water held still — hundreds of lathe-turned Etikoppaka beads strung over machined steel.
A reversible perch with the posture of a saddle stool and the surface of strung adornment.
The jhoola, re-read through jewellery — a suspended bead surface that speaks directly to the inner child.
A repeatable model
The practice travels to living craft clusters across India, sits with artisans, learns the process from the inside, and asks one question of the material. Each immersion becomes a collection — a complete body of thinking around one material and one craft.