Sonya Sapru Designs is a research-forward design and art practice based in South Delhi, working across textiles, art, and jewellery. We research, we travel, and we build archives of craft traditions, materials, texts, and visual languages, and then then translate that accumulated knowledge into meaningful collections and considered spaces.

 

This way of working begins with Sonya. An artist and designer of Kashmiri origin, she grew up moving between Assam, the Himalayas, and Papua New Guinea. Her early work was shaped by her mother, who lived in Indonesia. To grow up across landscapes and cultures is to learn that beauty is never accidental, that every visual tradition carries its own logic. Her work moves between geographies and cultures, to honour the fluidity and cosmopolitanism of contemporary living. Her daughter Sarojini is an academic and researcher, working with the same instinct, tracing ideas to their origins, questioning received taste, insisting on rigour. Between us the practice holds both: the maker's eye and the scholar's method.

 

Generational knowledge of this kind is rare in design. We think of it as our most important material.​​​