ORVI is preserving age-old traditional crafts from India to create bespoke and handcrafted surfaces for luxury spaces.
Indigenous crafts of India are a vital part of India’s heritage and the handicrafts industry has employed lakhs of artisans over the years. However, in today’s fast-paced and mechanized world, these techniques have succumbed to challenges such as inaccessibility of funds, low penetration of technology and poor institutional framework of artisan groups.
How Orvi is reviving the old to create the new
It was Sanjeev Agrawal’s great passion to protect and harness Indian handcrafted techniques that propelled him to launch Orvi in 2014. Working with more than 60 in-house artisans, ORVI creates innovative surfaces & home pieces with a fine blend of artisanal techniques and new-age technology. As a protector of ancestral connaissance, Orvi is committed to bringing the most celebrated hand-craft techniques of a bygone era from India for e.g., Tarkashi, stone carving, hand sculpting. intricate metal inlay and glass-making traditions from central India, at the forefront of modern home décor.
Orvi’s unwavering support to the artisan’s community
Through extensive hands-on training along with technology, Orvi has provided sustainable livelihood to the few surviving Tarkashi artisans in India. What was often seen as manual and constrained labour with no future by the artisans, is now looked at as an opportunity for artistic expression and an ability to take pride in ancestral saviour faire, which can now be passed on to the next generations, due to demand creation, recognition & finances.
