About Us
18 years in crafts, wood & design
Since 2006
I am Pankaj Narain, a 1993-1999 NID Ahmedabad alumnus and founder of The Beehive India. After I graduated I travelled extensively and connected with several wood/ bamboo artisans. I sensed a potential for developing better finished design-led products. Also, I felt that most of indigenous woods were underexplored and unutilized. Each wood has its colour, texture,properties ,strengths; hence usability which was undiscovered yet. This led to me starting my own studio – The Beehive India.
Over the years, I have developed a range of products, trying to reach the best possible finish & quality.
Founder
Our Story
We’ve been researching indigenous woods and heritage woodcrafts since 2006
A tree has stood in a place, seen seasons & generations pass by. It is a silent story teller of time embedded in its grains. And when the grain is polished, the story becomes clear. It offers warmth & coziness. It provides peace, comfort & brings us close to the nature. We intend to connect our souls with the soul of nature with tangible 4- dimensional products.
Nature has lines, forms, colors, textures which have been the main source of inspiration for the creation of designs. We provide vibrant products in the raw untouched stage right from the nature.
We make products, furniture, installations and art . We are also connected with various wood craft sectors across the country & this collaboration has given birth to many interesting, synergic possibilities.
Our Philosophy
The Beehive India is an experimentation, research & exploration design studio based in New Delhi. We work with a vast variety of species of wood. Wood joineries & retrieving the best natural grains & texture of wood is our main objective & strength.
Innovation is a sustained process and we intend to continue researching in woods & wood crafts. This would lead to slow improvisation of our products.
Designed & Handmade by us with traditional artisans.
We create design-led handcrafted products. We have co-created our product range with the traditional wood craft artisans, We strive to empower artisans economically by actualizing modernistic product ranges and providing them with unique platfrom to reach their potential.he potential by working on intricate designs / motifs.
We have managed to sustain dying craft forms by doing diversifying product ranges.
Our endeavour has been to design a contemporary design-led collection of products which connects Indian wood species with heritage craft forms; and does well in the interior and exterior spaces of modern homes.
We strive to work towards developing an Indian Design Language by working with indigenous woods, Indian Heritage craft techniques and using motifs inspired by Indian Flora, Fauna & Heritage monuments.