a Home, a Search, and a Market That Let Us Down.
We grew up around objects that had history: the kind that sat in a grandparent's home for decades and carried the weight of memory without ever needing to explain itself. When we started looking for pieces for our own first home together, we expected to find that same feeling somewhere. We never did. Every store offered the same things: safe, mass-produced, and completely without soul.
We embarked..
Mallika refused to settle. Ash started researching every old object he could get his hands on and realized that nobody was telling their stories. So we went to India ourselves, learned to find the right pieces, and came home with objects that finally felt like the ones we had grown up loving. That was the beginning. Everything since has been a deeper version of the same search.
The Things You Live With Should Be Worth Living With.
We believe the most beautiful things in a home are the ones that have already proven themselves: made well, used honestly, and kept because they were worth keeping. Every decision we make at Project Kalaā flows from that belief. We source with intention because these objects deserve to be chosen carefully. We research every story because every object deserves to have its history told. We pack with exceptional care because something that has survived a century deserves to survive the journey to your door. And we build relationships with our customers because the person who brings one of these objects home deserves to know exactly what they are holding and why it matters.