South Mumbai’s new crafts gem has risen

From brasswork to inlay, we’re heading to Viya to get our home a bejewelled fix!

10 Mar 2026

It’s almost like drifting through a timeworn home, each room and its many shelves, intentionally layered with jeweled furniture and decorative pieces. This is Viya’s new store in South Mumbai held within Trafford House, one of the architectural landmarks in the vicinity. With a rested but resplendent sparkle brimming indoors, Viya’s founder Vikram Goyal has created an abundance of his signature brasswork, stone inlay, cane and rope craft and hand-embroidery. A stroll up till the store is equally sensorial; laden with the crisp sounds of dried leaves on the ground, birds chirruping and the sight of two historic schools, whose architecture dates back to the mid 1800s.

On a first glance, the store seems to spill on to different sections, open to peruse yet somehow unrevealed from afar. Extending to a 4,600 sq ft area, the new Viya store instinctively nudges you to touch the crafted pieces and peer into its intricate carvings and details.

There’s more than brasswork

What begins with a cluster of statement cabinets, tables, chairs and mirrors, gradually moves on to stellar tableware, vases, lamps, candle holders and soft furnishings. The novel location also introduces breezy and elevated apparel, hinting at an extension of Vikram Goyal’s artistic universe.

While the brasswork and inlays quietly echo in the architectural expanse of its heritage building, the store still manages to retain a surprisingly contemporary rhythm to it. Perhaps it’s in the refined colour play of the materials — metallic blacks, brassy gold, cane’s warm browns and the rusticity of patina — or the austere all-white walls and the confident arches that contour the windows of the decade-old building. The original heritage elements are left bare and preserved, remodeled with an easy monochromatic lens.

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