Our Story
Casegoods has established itself in recent years as an international brand with a unique position in the world of design. Emerging as a natural extension to the architecture practice Case Design, the studio both shares and advances the core values of the founding practice. Now standing as an independent entity, Casegoods has a dedicated design and production team, workshop, stockists, and has participated in exhibitions worldwide.
Rooted in the design and cultural center of Mumbai, we have unique access to a wide array of materials, methods, and production techniques. We are able to work with state of the art technology while still maintaining access to knowledge, skills, and processes that existed thousands of years ago and have been passed down through generations of craft and oral tradition.
Building on relationships with craftspeople and artisans stretching back over the past two decades, the pieces we develop are produced both by and with exceptional makers. Often family run organizations, several of these craft based collectives go back more than 40 generations. The tacit knowledge, deep understanding of materials and methods, and willingness to engage in an iterative design practice to achieve the best outcome make their contributions to both process and product invaluable.
Typically originating as a sketch, a moment of inspiration, or simply an object we would like to have and use ourselves, each product we make goes through an intense development process that considers performance, durability, aesthetics, and life-cycle. By engaging deeply and directly with the craftspeople involved in our production and integrating workshop culture within our own practice, we are able to turn sketches into samples and prototypes quickly and efficiently, increasing our ability to study, review, and improve each product and detail. Through iteration and distillation we strive to create products of exceptional quality that can be used and cherished for generations.
