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Connecting, Creating, Curating

Nature of Furniture

Presenting a new series of Mata ni Pachhedi paintings in conjunction with a collection of contemporary products.

Materials and Processes and Product: Understanding the nature of  wooden furniture - Amolakh's contemporary response.

Exhibition, 2024

Venue : Arthshila, Ahmedabad
Team : Amolakh + Weft Foundation

This small exhibition focuses on the twin fundamentals of furniture: materials and process. At a time when the demand for furniture is increasing exponentially we would like to use this exhibition as a way of understanding the first principles of furniture making. In the first room the materials and processes are introduced and in the second room are examples of the finished products the company has been producing.

 

The word "AMOLAKH" defines something as precious and unique. Analysing the potential of the raw material and making simple products, relevant to today's needs is what Amolakh stands for. "Less Is More" informs all thoughts and actions.

 

The company was established some years ago by Maneesh Kumar Jangid in memory of his great grandfather, Late Shri ‘Amolakh’ Das Suthar. Four generations later the family continues to reflect the standards and commitment he believed in. He has been supported by Arthur Duff.

KAASH Partnerships

 

Foster engagement with leading artisan communities and design and cultural institutions in India and abroad to identify research gaps and training needs and promote the sharing of knowledge in the creative field. 

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Currently KAASH is liaising with the following institutions:

  • NID, Ahmedabad.

  • Museum Rietberg, Zurich

  • Evoke, London. 

  • Africa – maker co-operatives and institutions? [ To be identified ] 
     

KAASH People

Director
Sridhar Poddar
Board of Trustees
Prashant Prakash, Sridhar Poddar


Implementation:
Education
Arthur Duff

Design
Harsh Bhavsar

Outreach + Business Development
Manju S Rajan

Media and Operations Management
Keerthi Shastri

Execution
Mayank + Chandan + Ankit
 

Carpentry
Champa Lal
 

Electrician
Sonu
 

Housekeeping
Rajabapu
 

Driver
Manjuswami

 

Fellows

Research Associates

KAASH Knowledge platforms

  1. The Indian Sub-Continent
    Identify existing knowledge hubs and resource centres across the country. Add  significant and meaningful databases of experience and resources developed at KAASH.  
     

  2. The Indo-African Project
    The links between India and Africa are ancient, Particularly in the region of East Africa. Commerce and culture are intertwined to this day. This project focuses on making creative connections at the level of practice and institutions. Already connections have been made with potters in various parts of Africa.      
     

  3. Asia and Beyond  - KAASH Hub for Inter-Asia ResearchUnderstanding the extent to which materials and skills are interconnected across the region. Our long-term plan is to engage with creative challenges that can be addressed by collaborative teams of practitioners and scholars from multiple disciplines across the region.

    KAASH is setting up several collaborations across Asia and beyond with a view to conducting collaborative research, joint development of Inter-Asia issues as well as offering residencies to skilled people from elsewhere. Compiling data-bases.      

KAASH Products and Sales

​A Business model is being drafted to manage the development of retail opportunities for the Foundation in order to generate income that will sustain the work being carried out. 

KAASH Programme 2023

 

Now that KAASH is developing its own momentum it is appropriate to draft the following outline structure for KAASH over the next 5 years. 

Activities

Identify the 5 projects – skills and materials– for the next 5 years that will be the focus of all KAASH’s activities: 

 

  1. Leather:  puppetry, light and footwear, 

  2. Surface Art in transition – current residency

  3. Paper: forms of production and the Art of the Miniature to day 

  4. Stone – and its many functional forms

  5. The Book 


 

Each of these themes will be the umbrella for a specific agenda of research and development appropriate to the needs of the skill and materials. The outcome will be conference / seminar engaging the key artisans and stakeholders of that field. In addition will be an exhibition[s] displaying the outcome of the interaction with the skill, workshops and demonstrations, conference papers and publications, as well as a digital record of all that took place.
 

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