Aratrik Dev Varman is many things: founder of Tilla, the Ahmedabad-based design studio; an advocate of handmade Indian textiles and traditional craft; and a cross-disciplinary designer who believes “good design can be useful in more than one context if adapted well”.
But when I get him on the telephone a day ahead of his AD Design Show debut, where he’s launching Painted Forest, his first wallpaper collab with Nilaya by Asian Paints, he likens himself to a tortoise. “Once I start something, I keep at it slowly and steadily; nothing has ever really gone out of the window or stopped.”
