The Eternity chain in white marble on a travertine table, its interlocked links catching soft daylight.

GAURI KOHLI. Sculptural objects: material, form, craft.

In stone, metal, wood and fiber, for contemporary interiors.

The House · Since 2012

Named for its designer

Gauri Kohli directs every form, material and finish.

A resolved form is repeated in the materials that suit it — a bowl in several stones, a weave in several fibers. The collection grows deeper instead of longer.

No seasonal line. No trend palette. No object made to fill a gap in a category.

A pair of tufted wool wall panels in ivory and brown, hung in a plaster alcove above a marble-topped console.

Material

Nothing is corrected

Marble moves in vein and tone. Travertine keeps its open grain. Onyx goes translucent where it thins.

Metal is brushed rather than mirrored, so it holds light instead of throwing it back. Wool shifts a room by pile alone.

The part of an object nobody designed is the part that cannot be repeated.

Estonia hurricane candle holders in fossil brown travertine, on a covered patio table at dusk.

Form

Proportion carries it

Scale, silhouette, thickness, weight — each judged against the material rather than imposed on it.

Detail is reduced rather than added. What remains has to earn the room it takes.

A form that would work equally well in any material has not been resolved.

The Roksana bath set in ivory white marble, fluted profiles shown together on a vanity.

Craft

How it wears

Surface, edge, weight, and the way two parts meet — each decided once the form is settled, and never used to rescue one that isn't.

A form made in two materials does not get the same surface. Marble is honed rather than polished, matte in the hand. Resin is carried through to a gloss.

A finish is judged after years of use, not on the day it arrives.