Prashant Salvi | Visual Artist

Prashant Salvi looks at the world in (an)other way and expresses it through his work, which has a sordid sensuality to it. Over the past decade, we began to see things from his perspective, as we collected his works and spent time with him understanding his process. For our first body of work, (An)otherness, we invited him to the lend his interpretation to our study. The chosen subject – a spark – was a conduit to fluid conversations that evoked inspirations of our own, rendered by Salvi in a series of sketches for the Studio. And it is through these sketches that the jewelry was conceptualized. The jewelry is no more than a snapshot – a physical manifestation of that study and exploration.

Prashant Salvi is a visual artist who lives and works in Mumbai. Salvi pursued his lifelong passion for art at Sir J.J. School of Art in the city. A contemporary artist, his mixed media compositions are united in their unwavering attention to dramatic tension filled with unpredictable explosion of emotions and happenings. The strange and unique way of juxtaposition of images in the works of Salvi is intentional. His virtuosic works have been exhibited at venues such as Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, and Busan International Art Fair 2017.

Material Immaterial (MiM) Studio | Architectural Design Practice

Our philosophical and conceptual conversations with Nitin Barccha on serendipitous atrophy, the perceived and assigned value of materials, the transient nature of a city, the impermanence of what we assume isn’t, the creative force of destruction – sparked the collaboration. The results were explorations of juxtaposing the banality of concrete with rarified materials like diamonds and gold.

Our first work was a commissioned piece, the Transient ring – an acid-treated solitaire ring made of concrete, reinforced with gold and diamonds. This idea evolved into the Strangler ring.

Material Immaterial Studio is an experimental design practice based in Mumbai. Headed by architects, Nitin Barchha and Disney Davis, their approach at Material Immaterial Studio has always laid focus on the ‘idea’ – with materials becoming a mere medium of expression, whether it is for their architecture projects, products or objects. At its heart, the practice is driven by a minimalist sensibility – of both form and material. Their love and bias for concrete stems from the influence the material has had on modern architecture.

Ankit Malpani | Enamellist

The art of plique-a-jour (vitreous enameling) is practiced only by a handful of artisans in India. It is through two years of relentless determination to find that art that this collaboration was forged. The nature of our collaboration was based on a mutual understanding that we should make things that allow us to evolve with them. The Gossamer earrings was one such work, where Ankit Malpani lent his experience and expertise – saw things from our perspective – and pushed his own technical and aesthetic sensibilities. And we all walked away with a lot more than what we had when we started. That, for us, is the true nature of a collaboration.

Ankit Malpani is a Jaipur-based jewelry designer who creates distinct hand-crafted works all of which bear his signature aesthetic. There is an innate experimental streak about him, which stems from his curiosity.