The House of Things Gallery’s arrival in Udaipur should be on your next design agenda
It’s rather intriguing how art and crafts stand central to our ways of living. We find it embedded in our homes and spaces outside; in the poised pool of furniture pieces, at destinations and hotels, in art galleries and venues of retail. Especially in India, craftsmanship trickles way beyond its common identity of just being about techniques and traditions. It is in fact a way of storytelling. A purpose to evolve the past, led by creatives, designers and artisans. A design and crafts revolution may be underway in the heritage city of Udaipur, thanks to the newest arrival of The House of Things Gallery. Rewind to 2015, siblings-in-law Astha and Manan Khetan co-founded the brand with an e-commerce focus to exhibit the most curious pieces of objects from numerous artists and designers. Switch to 2025, a decade later, The House of Things Gallery in the City of Lakes now becomes an inspiring address for arts and crafts discovery. A museum of objects, some say!
A portal to discoveries
The gallery’s 25,000 sq ft endless confines prove that palatial can be intimate too. With furniture, home accessories, rare objects and artworks dressed in the mystique of the designers’ imagination, colours, materials and karigari. Our visit to the gallery in no time transformed into a journey of design.
