The studio
A resin house
in Fort, Mumbai.
How it started
The first board had a bubble in it.
Resin is a difficult material to love at first. It is unforgiving about temperature, obsessive about dust, and it gives you exactly one attempt. Our first year was mostly failure, documented badly.
What changed everything was writing the failures down. Which resin ambered at 40°C. Which mould inhibited cure. Why every board poured in July had a greasy film on it that nothing would stick to — the answer was amine blush, and it took us six weeks and a chemistry textbook to find out.
Those notes became the journal. The journal became the reason people started asking what we used, which became the supply room. And the pieces we made while testing became the atelier.
We still won’t stock something we haven’t poured with in our own studio, in Mumbai humidity, at 32°C. If it ambers, cracks or blushes, it doesn’t get a shelf — no matter what the datasheet claims.
The bench, year by year
Seven years of getting it slightly less wrong.
- 2019
A kitchen table in Fort
Rohini poured her first board on a folding table with a bedsheet over the window to keep dust off. It cured with a bubble the size of a coin in it. She still has it.
- 2021
The supply room opens
Enough people asked what we used that we started importing it properly — and reformulating it for a climate that no resin datasheet accounts for.
- 2023
The preservation bench
A client asked us to keep her mother's last bouquet. We said yes before we knew how. Nine months of testing later, it became a whole studio.
- 2024
Workshops & the journal
We stopped answering the same eleven questions over email and started publishing the answers. The journal is now the most-read thing we make.
- 2026
Two halves, one house
Eleven thousand pours shipped, a six-person bench, and the same rule as day one: nothing goes on the shelf that we haven't poured with ourselves.
On the bench
Six people, one signature.
Rohini Kadam
Founder & pour lead
Poured the first board. Still signs every commission.
Dev Sundaram
Materials & safety
Chemist by training. Owns the respirator rule.
Aira Fernandes
Preservation studio
Handles every bouquet personally. Twelve days per press.
Joan Mathew
Finishing & furniture
Cabinetmaker. Takes everything to 3000 grit.
Come and see
The door is open Tuesday to Sunday.
The Artrol Studio
Unit 4, Kala Ghoda Arts Precinct
Rampart Row, Fort
Mumbai 400001
Tue – Sun · 11:00 – 19:00 IST