Surat-based designer Priyanka Shah is building furniture that looks like it walked out of a storybook
If Shah is Alice, her workspace is her Wonderland, with a sanctuary for her sitars, a selection of metal chairs made by hand and a conference table with cubbyholes oriented upwards. She believes in thinking about manufacturing, but what about when she does none of these things? “Then, I soak up the golden hour,” she smiles, pointing to her office and her stool, both made by hand from paper paste. “I spend most of my free time here to play Sitar or read in the library upstairs,” she adds, making a gesture up to a mezzanine with glass roof-or what she likes to call “My Treehouse”. It doesn’t matter that she gets married and moved to Amsterdam in a few months. “This decision is a way to develop in new geographies,” she says. “As for this studio, he took his own life.” Behind her, a fantastic carousel begins to turn, wink in agreement.
This story featuring Priyanka Shah appeared in the Vogue India issue in July 2025, now on the stands. Subscribe here.
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