At Bruijn, collaborating with artists to celebrate Indian designs constitutes a large part of what we do. This year, we team up with Jaamuni Saundar - a surface pattern and textile design studio, that shares a similar outlook of design being borderless. 

Together, we have crafted beautiful boxes adorned by chintz-inspired artwork under our continued series titled Stories of Bruijn. It represents the Tree of life, artistically handpainted to marry the coming together of the botanical with the culinary. 

The intentional piece of art upon a closer look, reveals flowers of dried fruits like cashews, raisins, almonds, that first stem as living, growing forms. Hence, the Tree of Life felt like a natural choice to symbolize a single source holding many forms but also in constant motion, evolving across Indian and Chinese ornamental traditions. In that way, it becomes a kind of visual melting pot, much like food itself- belonging everywhere, and growing richer as it moves.

We intend for these boxes to become a part of your grand celebrations and memorabilia even after its contents are savoured, allowing it to serve its purpose and meaning.