Bengaluru-based lighting studio Oorjaa has released Coral Echoes , a table lamp developed as part of its Submerge collection. The design references coral structures and marine ecosystems, using form, material, and light rather than figurative imagery. The lamp is constructed using hand-crafted banana fibre paper, supported by a minimal wire framework. This construction allows light to pass through the surface unevenly, producing variations in tone and intensity rather than

Looking out toward a quiet fringe of mangroves and vineyards on Bengaluru’s outskirts, this 2,400 sq ft villa finds its emotional centre not in the landscape it faces but in the memories it chooses to hold close. The family who lives here — a couple, their daughter and two exuberant dogs — wanted a home that felt unmistakably Indian, not as a theme but as a lived memory. Their sense of belonging stretched across regions, textures, traditions. The wife carried the visual vocab

Oorjaa has always approached lighting from a place of material curiosity rather than decoration, and the Sea Sponge Table Lamp continues that line of thinking with a focus on texture, handcraft, and a slower way of making. The lamp takes its cue from marine life — specifically the irregular, naturally formed structure of sea sponges — but the reference is handled lightly. What stands out is not the imitation of form, but the sense of ease in its contours: nothing sharp, nothi