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This book organises Indian artifacts by Hindi words that shed light on the objects’ specific functions, illuminating how each object fits into Indian life.

Specifications:

• Format: Hardback
• Size: 270 × 205 mm (10 5/8 × 8 1/8 in)
• Pages: 304 pp
• Illustrations: 480 illustrations
• ISBN: 9780714870502

Swapnaa Tamhane (b. 1976) is a curator, artist and writer working between Mumbai, Canada and Toronto. She was formerly an editor at Phaidon Press and curator at Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Museum Abteiberg. Her works have been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and KHOJ, Bangalore

Rashmi Varma (b. 1974 in New Delhi) is a designer of costumes, who has shown her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto; and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto. She has received many grants and awards from the Ontario Arts Council and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. She also assisted Deepa Mehta on “Heaven on Earth” and worked on “Midnight’s Children.”

“Looking around my table as I write this, I see objects that frame us in relationships of use, ritual, love, obsession, eccentricity… Objects of incredible beauty, delicacy, vulgarity and elegance… Sar: The Essence of Indian Design sketches out some of these relationships. It stares lovingly at the forms that inhabit our everyday life. It tells us stories about the chai cups, the cycle rickshaws, the bangles, and the carrom boards around us.” — Architectural Digest (India)