Vikram Goyal Studio/ Viya

Vikram Goyal leads his studio practice with innovative craftsmanship, composing a new contemporary design vocabulary from India. For over two decades, the studio has created collectible design objects with a focus on metal, particularly brass, as its primary material. Led by a sense of curiosity about the affordances of materiality, Goyal and a team of skilled craftspeople continually experiment with extending boundaries of traditional techniques, base pairings, and conceptual narratives—with extraordinary results. The inventiveness of the studio’s work is most striking in its seamless use of material wherein sheet metal, with its firm rigidity, takes on a sensuous, visceral persona. Large-scale objects become singular statements through detailed and deeply skilled processes of making, underpinned by the studio’s intergenerational knowledge and mastery of techniques including repoussé, pietra dura, and hollowed joinery. Located in New Delhi, the studio is a typical, with a dedicated team and workshop globally recognized for its approach to making via ideas of materiality,culture, and tradition. It undertakes bespoke commissions and collaborates with architects and designers globally.