Full collection available at lairliving.in.
A homegrown decor label is betting that brass, stoneware and a slower kind of craft are exactly what minimalist Indian homes have been missing.
Walk into most new-build apartments across urban India and you will find a familiar palette: matte black fixtures, engineered wood, a lot of white. Clean, safe, and increasingly identical. Lair Living, a Delhi-based home decor brand built around brass, stoneware, reed diffusers and dinnerware, is making a quiet case for the opposite: that warmth, weight and a bit of texture belong in the modern home too.
The brand sums up its philosophy in three words — modern, simple, luxury — and its catalogue at lairliving.in bears that out. Handcrafted brass decor sits alongside brass and kansa dinnerware, soy wax candles, candle flower bouquets, reed diffusers, room and linen mists, and a newer ceramics and stoneware line. None of it chases a trend cycle. The pitch is durability, craft and a kind of quiet confidence — pieces meant to be lived with for years, not replaced each season.
That restraint is deliberate. Founder Anurag built the brand around a simple observation: India has some of the world’s deepest craft traditions, and very little of that has made its way into decor that fits a contemporary home.
“We started with one rule: never make anything we wouldn’t keep in our own home,” he says. “Everything we create — from brass and ceramics to home fragrance — is built to be an heirloom, not a purchase. The goal is for Lair Living to be the one place you come to when you’re building a luxury home, and we’re only getting started.”
That conviction shapes how the brand produces as much as what it sells. Rather than manufacturing in one place, Lair Living sources each collection from the part of India best known for that craft — working with artisan clusters across multiple states and cities, each with generations of specialisation behind them. Some pieces take close to a week to finish, because each one is handcrafted individually rather than machine-made in bulk — a pace the brand treats as the point, not an inefficiency.
Brass Decor, Off the Temple Shelf
The Home Decor & Living collection is where that shows most clearly: handcrafted urlis, pooja thali sets, table bells, jewellery boxes, mini vases and candle holders, each made individually by skilled artisans. These are objects that have lived in Indian homes for generations, almost always in a ceremonial corner — Lair Living’s reframing is to bring the same craftsmanship onto a console table or bar cart, as a decor choice rather than a ritual one.
Brass Dinnerware, an Everyday Ritual
The Dining collection pushes the same material into daily use: hammered charger plates, etched champagne glasses, brass goblets, tumblers and a kansa dinner set, alongside a brass cocktail shaker for anyone hosting. Kansa, a copper-tin alloy used in Indian dining for centuries, is non-reactive with acidic food — a practical detail that gives the craft argument backing beyond the purely aesthetic. It is dinnerware built to be used, not kept behind glass.
Reed Diffusers and Mists, Scent as a Slow Ritual
Fragrance is where the catalogue goes deepest. Lair Living’s reed diffusers come in a wide range of scent profiles, from citrus and spice to deeper woody and oudh notes, in 100 ml and 200 ml sizes that the brand says last up to three and six months respectively — a flameless, steadier counterpart to candles. The room and linen mist range carries the same scent families onto fabric and air across multiple variants, meant for curtains, bedlinen and upholstery. Together, the two collections treat scent as something layered into a home over weeks, not sprayed into a room once.
The Candle Flower Bouquet
The candle flower bouquet collection is the brand’s most distinctive line, and the hardest to find elsewhere. Each bouquet is hand-sculpted from a soy-and-beeswax blend into individual blooms — peonies and roses — arranged like the real thing, then finished with a wick so it can be burned as a candle or displayed as a centrepiece. Once spent, the vessel is designed to be reused as a vase.
Ceramics Joins the Table
The newest addition is a ceramics and stoneware collection: handmade mugs, dinner plates, serving bowls and platters. Each piece carries the same handmade irregularity as the brand’s brass work — no two glazes finish identically — paired with stoneware’s density and chip resistance, built for daily use rather than occasional display. It is a natural extension of the dining line: pieces meant to be used often enough to earn a little wear.
Why Quiet Luxury, Why Now
It is a positioning that puts Lair Living in an interesting lane — neither a budget decor brand competing on price, nor a maximalist one chasing heavy patterns. It sits closer to the global “quiet luxury” movement that has reshaped fashion and interiors: fewer, better objects, made from materials with history behind them, sold without noise. The materials hold up their end — a tarnished brass piece can be brought back to shine with a simple lemon-and-baking-soda polish and used for decades, the opposite of decor designed to be replaced. Heritage materials, modern restraint: it is a story harder to copy than an aesthetic.
For a market saturated with near-identical factory imports, that combination — traditional materials, artisan production, a catalogue spanning brass decor, dinnerware, fragrance, candle flower bouquets and ceramics — is a meaningfully different starting point. The brand’s core wager is straightforward: the next wave of home decor in India will be less about finding something new, and more about rediscovering what was already here, made properly, and given room to be modern again.
A Range Built for Gifting
Price points reflect that same spread. A single brass candle holder or a room mist starts at under a thousand rupees, while a hammered brass champagne glass, a kansa dinner set or a premium candle flower bouquet sits closer to four to seven thousand. The range lets the brand serve as a gifting purchase without diluting the craft story at either end.
Gifting, Customised to the Occasion
Gifting has quietly become one of the brand’s biggest engines. A large share of orders are bulk gifting sets — curated brass pieces, or a mix of brass and home fragrance — customised to the occasion and budget, whether that is a wedding favour, a corporate gift or a festive hamper. Almost everything in the catalogue works as a single gift too: a brass urli for a housewarming, a candle flower bouquet for a wedding, a diffuser set for a first home. That customisation has turned one-time gift recipients into some of the brand’s most consistent repeat customers.
The brand’s online presence reinforces the same restraint. Product photography favours natural light and uncluttered backdrops over the saturated, heavily staged look common to Indian e-commerce decor listings, and the site copy avoids the urgency tactics — countdown timers, “only 2 left” banners — standard in the category.
The approach appears to be landing. Orders on lairliving.in average around 4.8 stars out of 5, and reviews tend to echo the same theme. As one customer put it after a housewarming purchase: “I bought it as a gift and ended up ordering a second one for my own home. It’s the first thing guests ask about.”
About Lair Living
Lair Living is a Delhi-based home decor brand specialising in handcrafted brass and kansa decor and dinnerware, pure soy wax candles and candle flower bouquets, premium reed diffusers, room and linen mists, and a ceramics and stoneware collection. Each piece is made by skilled artisans across India drawing on generations of craft tradition. The full collection is available online at lairliving.in.
