Delhi-based design studio ChippiWara was founded by Tanveen Ratti and conceived as a conversation between contemporary design and traditional practice. The studio creates collectible design, furniture and accent pieces for interiors using marquetry and the art of wood inlay and taarkashi, the inlay of fine brass wire into wood. Both crafts carry a long history in southern India. Since its founding, ChippiWara has worked in collaboration with master inlay artisan Suresh Mohan and his highly skilled Mysore collective. Together they have carried the craft beyond its inherited iconography of gods and goddesses, toward abstraction, the natural world and scenes of everyday life.