Exhibition Details

New Delhi-based Vikram Goyal explores Indian metal artistry and heritage craft techniques with collectable design pieces including seating, lighting and wall panels for PAD London. The Studio’s first international exhibition is curated by Nilufar Gallery and will be the first solo booth at the global design fair by a contemporary designer from India. 
At this year’s PAD London (10-15 October 2023), leading Indian designer Vikram Goyal will showcase collectable design pieces that demonstrate his New Delhi-based workshop’s mastery of metal. It comes at a time of heightened interest in art, craft, and design from the Indian sub-continent within the collectable market and attention on the region as a hub for global creativity.
The collection of ten limited-edition pieces features consoles, benches, side tables, chandeliers, wall sconces and wall panels – all intricately hand-made by expert artisans. Each object explores and celebrates a range of heritage techniques in metalwork that have existed in India as early as the 3rd or 4th century BC. One such is repoussé, the art of painstakingly hand-beating a metal sheet into three-dimensional forms. Goyal has spent 20 years cultivating expertise in this skill, and others, among his artisans, developing an abstract sophistication and contemporary design language, often imbuing almost academic and surprisingly modern interpretations of Indian cultural traditions, narratives and philosophies into his work. New pieces by Italian designer Christian Pellizzari will offer an enriching creative exchange with Vikram Goyal’s works on the stand.