, Shreya M., Hyderabad (Product: Royal Tray Set + Lounge Set)
My best friend since school got married in January. I spent a month thinking about what to give her. She and her husband have designed their home themselves, a contemporary Indian aesthetic, warm woods, hand-painted textiles.
I ordered the Royal Tray Set and the Rajasthani Lounge Set. Both arrived gift-wrapped, with the handwritten cards from Premloom inside.
She called me the evening they arrived. She was crying, the good kind. She said the Lounge Set looked exactly like something her grandmother had, something she’d grown up with and lost when the grandmother’s house was sold. Not identical, but the spirit of it, the folk painting, the scale.
“How did you know?” she asked. I didn’t. Premloom did.