The Ritu Kumar Home x Atelier Ashiesh Shah home collection draws inspiration from travel and India’s diversity

Fort Kochi in Kerala, Amer and Jaisalmer in Rajasthan served as muse for the line

The whites and golds of Kerala’s mundum neriyathum, the lush blues and pinks of Amer’s walls, and the shades of brown of Jaisalmer’s deserts have all made its way to the first Ritu Kumar Home x Atelier Ashiesh Shah collab. The collection of tableware, wallpaper and soft furnishings derive inspiration from both travel and India’s diversity in equal measure.

“I am a very visual person; I travel with my eyes,” begins Ashiesh. “These places [Amer and Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, and Kochi in Kerala] inspired me: the silhouettes of coconut trees and the lines on the roads of Fort Kochi, the sand dunes and camels of Jaisalmer. I captured the ‘flowy-ness’ of the dunes — but change the colour, and it could be underwater.”