{"id":119778,"date":"2025-11-06T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?p=119778"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:13:52","slug":"this-studio-is-reworking-indian-modernism-by-hand","status":"publish","type":"metro_profile","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/profiles\/this-studio-is-reworking-indian-modernism-by-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"This Studio is Reworking Indian Modernism by Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sandow-article-header article-header\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-header\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//11//02_recycled_wood_room_divider_making.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02_recycled_wood_room_divider_making.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02_recycled_wood_room_divider_making-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02_recycled_wood_room_divider_making-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02_recycled_wood_room_divider_making-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02_recycled_wood_room_divider_making-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02_recycled_wood_room_divider_making-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group article-header_intro none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"article-date\" aria-label=\"Post Date\">November 6, 2025<\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">This Studio is Reworking Indian Modernism by Hand<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"summary size-regular\">In Bangalore, Phantom Hands builds a model of sustainability that merges tradition, technology, and ethical design in a living workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>By: <\/span><a href=https://metropolismag.com/"//tag//aastha-d/">Aastha D.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>Photography: <\/span><a href=https://metropolismag.com/"//tag//courtesy-phantom-hands/">Courtesy Phantom Hands<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"social-share\"><li><a 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wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\"><a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////phantomhands.in///">Phantom Hands<\/a> was founded in Bangalore in 2015 by Aparna Rao, a National Institute of Design\u2013trained artist and designer, and Deepak Srinath, a former tech professional turned collector. The two began by seeking out what they call \u201cunlabeled modernism\u201d\u2014furniture and objects whose makers were anonymous (hence the name \u201cphantom\u201d), yet whose restraint and finesse revealed a distinct sensibility. What began as collecting gradually became conviction: that these objects could be reactivated through new, contemporary furniture that was Indian in spirit yet global in execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">To understand that lineage requires a look back at Indian modernism itself. In the 1950s, <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//tag//le-corbusier///">Le Corbusier<\/a> and Pierre Jeanneret were commissioned to design Chandigarh, the newly built capital city of the state of Punjab. Their architecture and furniture defined a modernist vocabulary\u2014formal, austere, rational\u2014but they were also alien to how Indians lived. These designs overlooked the social and climatic rhythms of Indian homes and institutions. Yet they symbolized a young nation\u2019s aspirations toward progress and design modernity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_content is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//11//11_BIG-GAME-scaled.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11_BIG-GAME-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11_BIG-GAME-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11_BIG-GAME-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11_BIG-GAME-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11_BIG-GAME-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11_BIG-GAME-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Over time, Indian architects, craftspeople, and institutions such as the National Institute of Design (founded in 1961 with Bauhaus and Ulm influences) adapted and humanized this vocabulary, making modernism livable. Unlike its European counterpart, Indian modernism was never singular\u2014it was plural, authored as much by anonymous carpenters as by famous designers, negotiated between imported ideals and local realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Phantom Hands continues that conversation today. Aparna and Deepak come from opposite worlds\u2014she from design and art, he from technology\u2014but share a common ethos: to marry craft with mechanics, and excellence with empathy. \u201cI\u2019m a creator at heart,\u201d Aparna says. \u201cCollecting was enjoyable, but it didn\u2019t offer the fulfillment that making does.\u201d Craft, for her, is how values take shape. Their 100-person Bangalore workshop now bridges aspiration and responsibility, aiming to achieve global standards of design without losing sight of India\u2019s material and cultural roots. Nothing happens without people, and the pursuit of excellence need not come at their cost.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//11//12_Yarn_wood_selection-768x1024.jpeg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/12_Yarn_wood_selection-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/12_Yarn_wood_selection-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//11//08_Prototyping_BIG-GAMEjpg-683x1024.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/08_Prototyping_BIG-GAMEjpg-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/08_Prototyping_BIG-GAMEjpg-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>R&amp;D as Experimentation and Play<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">At the core of Phantom Hands is a simple idea: sustainability is not a badge to be displayed but a practice to be lived. The pandemic tested that conviction. When local factories shuttered, many displaced workers went door to door seeking jobs. Phantom Hands absorbed them\u2014garment stitchers, upholsterers, and other craftspeople\u2014into full-time roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Garment workers (mostly women) did what they already knew best, made bags. They began sewing woven and canvas bags that now serve as both packaging and part of the client\u2019s unboxing ritual. Upholsterers helped establish an entirely new department. What began as an emergency measure evolved into a model of ethical production\u2014one that fused livelihood with design and proved that sustainability could mean expanding care rather than contracting scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">In most industries, R&amp;D is about patents, IP, and product pipelines. At Phantom Hands, it\u2019s about experimentation and shared learning. Formalized in 2020, during the pandemic, the studio\u2019s R&amp;D unit documents what other workshops might discard: videos of failed jigs, voice notes about drying times, scribbled finishing recipes, photographs of weaves that went wrong. Carpenters, upholsterers, finishers, packers, and designers all contribute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">By making process legible and accessible, the studio dissolves hierarchies between drawing-hand and maker-hand. Tacit gestures become teachable, durable knowledge. The result is refined furniture and a different logic of innovation\u2014one where solutions emerge iteratively from the shop floor rather than descending as blueprints from above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//11//04_Cane_weaving_.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04_Cane_weaving_.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04_Cane_weaving_-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04_Cane_weaving_-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04_Cane_weaving_-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04_Cane_weaving_-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04_Cane_weaving_-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//11//01_Cane_materials.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01_Cane_materials.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01_Cane_materials-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01_Cane_materials-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01_Cane_materials-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01_Cane_materials-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01_Cane_materials-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Material Choices, Ethical Stakes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Material decisions at Phantom Hands are both pragmatic and political. Indian teak remains foundational, but its supply comes through government-controlled auctions of timber grown on cordoned forest land\u2014systems often opaque and entangled with corruption, smuggling, and the long history of Indigenous land being taken into state control. \u201cThings can easily go amiss,\u201d Deepak notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">To ensure accountability, the studio also sources FSC-certified American hardwoods like red oak and cherry, where forestry management and chain-of-custody data are verifiable. Finishes and adhesives have been overhauled as well: solvent-heavy polishes and toxic glues have been replaced with water-based stains, hard-wax oils, and non-VOC adhesives. \u201cThe glue we use now costs ten times more than what\u2019s commonly available,\u201d Deepak explains, \u201cbut it was a no-brainer\u2014you can\u2019t have workers inhaling toxic fumes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Phantom Hands\u2019 design collaborations span eras and disciplines, each one pushing the workshop outward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//11//10_Inoda-Sveje_cane_weave_innovation.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10_Inoda-Sveje_cane_weave_innovation.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10_Inoda-Sveje_cane_weave_innovation-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10_Inoda-Sveje_cane_weave_innovation-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10_Inoda-Sveje_cane_weave_innovation-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10_Inoda-Sveje_cane_weave_innovation-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10_Inoda-Sveje_cane_weave_innovation-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Project Chandigarh revisits the 1950s furniture originally designed for the city by Pierre Jeanneret and Indian collaborators, restoring the integrity of joinery, cane weaving, and finish that had eroded over decades of reproductions. The studio\u2019s <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////geoffreybawa.com///">Geoffrey Bawa <\/a>re-editions, developed with the Bawa Trust in Sri Lanka, extend this principle of restoration, reviving pieces conceived through collective authorship among architects, boat builders, and artisans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Textile designer Padmaja Krishnan brings hand-dyed and woven fabrics into Phantom Hands\u2019 upholstery, embedding irregular textures that honor the tactile imperfections of craft. These textiles, along with the studio\u2019s stitched and woven packaging, extend the same ethic of care that guides their furniture-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Swiss graphic designer Felix Pf\u00e4ffli introduced a burst of play and color. His work with Phantom Hands was less about furniture form and more about visual language\u2014an exercise in translating vibrancy from print and screen into material. \u201cIt was incredibly exciting to take something so graphic, so alive, and test how it could live on wood and fabric,\u201d Aparna recalls. Matching colors across media proved technically impossible, but the attempt opened up new ways of thinking about surface, texture, and contrast\u2014reminding the team that innovation is often found in translation, not replication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//11//05_V_Groove_RD-scaled.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/05_V_Groove_RD-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/05_V_Groove_RD-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/05_V_Groove_RD-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/05_V_Groove_RD-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/05_V_Groove_RD-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/05_V_Groove_RD-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Leadership, too, is cultivated from the ground up. Skill, not schooling, is the measure of mentorship. Talented craftspeople lead small teams and, increasingly, mentor design students\u2014a quiet transformation that makes sustainability as social as it is environmental. \u201cOf course, we aspire for excellence in the object,\u201d Aparna says, \u201cbut the process teaches us so much more. The people who worked on it carry that pride and creativity forward\u2014it all compounds into dignity in the work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Phantom Hands complicates easy dichotomies. It is both steward of South Asia\u2019s modernist legacies and an experimental atelier open to play. Preservation and innovation are reconciled by method\u2014through testing, record-keeping, and a willingness to let production itself define what\u2019s worth keeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">From this practice come lessons worth carrying forward: treat sustainability as a living process, not an afterthought, definitely not a slogan; see innovation as a social practice grounded in shared knowledge; and embrace pragmatic globalism\u2014mixing local materials with certified imports when transparency demands it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">If sustainability is a way of working, Phantom Hands is building the method in public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comment size-regular\">Would you like to comment on this article? 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