February Newsletter
Inc(RED)ible India
February 2024 – It is the season for ‘desi gulab'(Indian rose), a time when local flower markets in India are full of fragrance and a vivid red color that coincides with St. Valentine’s Day celebrated globally. Roses in India are edible and distilled into perfumes, skin toners and ‘sharbats’ – a delicious red and sweet smelling concoction that leaves you with not only a taste for more but also with traces of its wine colored hues on your clothes.
At ikkis, we love the everyday mess of living in India that has been artistically rendered into a digitally printed collection of napery titled ‘dirty linen’ under our Holi Mess collection of table linen. After all, love isn’t a fairytale – it’s a complicated, messy, perfectly imperfect story that we write everyday. So here’s wishing you and your loved ones an intoxicatingly ‘desi’ red Valentine’s Day from Ikkis.
Vedik by Ikkis at India Art Fair
The beginning of the month started with a bang with the India Art Fair in New Delhi from the February 1st- 4th. Ikkis in association with the fair hosted a specially curated Vedik Dinner for a global mix of patrons & collectors to mark the fair’s 15th edition at Eleved – a new age eatery in Central Delhi with a contemporary Yoga studio called Life Yoga.
An Experimental evening that offered respite from the fast paced activities of the art week, we raised a Vedik (albeit bold) water toast in our ‘Chai’ Stem Flute to the sound of singing bowls and breath work followed by a 3 course meal where ikkis tableware and food by Eleved indulged in the concepts of circularity, balance and deconstruction drawing from deep rooted Indian recipes and rituals.
To see the Vedik by Ikkis Dinner Reel, please visit the link
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3QZbkpPrps/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==An heirloom placesetting
The table setting brought together Ikkis Classics like the ‘Chai’ Stem Flute, ‘Pankha’ Placemat available as a set of 4 combining it with our ‘dirty linen’ in ‘Haldi’ and ‘Sharbat’ with the Mughal Bud Vases decked with flowers.
Shop the collection on www.ikkis.in
‘Burni’ Tiffin & ‘Mitti’ Thaali Tray
On the occasion of the Vedik Dinner hosted by us during IAF, we launched our Ceramic ‘Burni’ Tiffin – an iconic pickle jar in India presented as a stack of three individual ceramic bowls along with a terracotta coated metal tray titled the ‘Mitti’ Thaali Tray that is a great add on to our serve ware collection.
IKKIS Limited at the India Art Fair
A highlight of our Creative Director, Gunjan Gupta’s eponymous booth at the India Art Fair were our Limited Edition ‘Kangans’ – overscaled wrist ornaments in terracotta made by Master Potter Prithivi Raj Singh Deo as wall art
Ikkis Limited is a collaboration with Indian Master Craftsman and Gunjan Gupta to conceive of rare and limited editions of 21 offered as a series of numbered and signed decorative objects.
To know more about Ikkis Limited Editions, please visit www.ikkis.in and for Gunjan Gupta’s Collectible Design Practice, please visit www.gunjangupta.in
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