Escape to WHERE TOURMALINES SPEAK LOUDER

Desperate to mute quiet luxury?

- GUY TREBAY

"Crafts don't have a geography" Sabyasachi Mukherjee told me not long ago over lunch in New Delhi. His face settled into an enigmatic smile as he considered an assertion that, like so much else about this charming and paradoxical designer, was a contradiction in terms. Crafts, of course, are nothing if not geographically specific. In a certain sense, they can even be seen as concrete manifestations of culture and the myriad ways people fashion the raw materials that surround them into objects of both function and art.