Moodboard of Rasasthya marble work: carving, lotus sculpture, Ganesha murti, and pietra dura objects

Jaipur · carved by hand

Rasasthya Handicrafts emblem: a marble lotus within a forest-green arch

Our story

Beauty that connects past and present

Rasasthya began in Jaipur, among workshops where marble is still understood as a living material — cool, stubborn, and capable of holding a very old idea of beauty in the rooms we live in.

Keep the hand visible. No loud finish. No piece that could have been made anywhere.

We work with artisans whose families have carved for temples, havelis, and houses. The brief is simple: keep the hours in the stone, and let the room find them slowly.

The line is small on purpose. Murtis, sculpture, pietra dura, and objects for the home — more than a catalogue, still made the same way. Nothing poured from a mould in another city.

The house is held by two. Kanishka and Ekansh keep the work close to the workshop: what belongs in a room, and what the stone will allow.

  • Jaipurcarved & packed
  • Makranawhite marble
  • By handno moulds

The name

The essence of wellbeing, grounded in balance.

Rasa is essence, flavour, an emotional experience. Asthya is stability — grounding, being firmly established. Together they are Rasasthya. What we make should feel like it belongs: a Ganesha for a threshold, a box for a dressing table.

  • Rasaessence · flavour · feeling
  • Asthyastability · grounding

The work

Stone, inlay, and time

None of this is fast, and we do not pretend otherwise.

Makrana marble is chosen for its grain. Pietra dura — pachchikari — is set stone by stone. Murtis are cut from a single block. A collection this small is updated by hand, as the workshop finishes what it can stand behind.

A petal is not rushed. A fold of cloth is cut until it sits. Inlay is a conversation between two stones, not a pattern printed on. The last light on a piece is as considered as the first cut.

When it leaves Jaipur it is packed the same way it was made — by hand, with the hours still in it. If the piece you want is not in the line, we will tell you what is possible, and how long it will take.

  1. 01Chiselthe first cut
  2. 02Dusthours unseen
  3. 03Finishthe last light
Rectangular white marble jewelry box with colourful floral pietra dura inlay on draped cream linen

Makrana · set stone by stone

Pietra dura on a lid — flowers that look as if they grew there, the hours still in the set.

The house

Held by two

Kanishka, co-founder of Rasasthya Handicrafts

The collection

Kanishka

Looks after the line — what we make, and the rooms it is for.

Ekansh, co-founder of Rasasthya Handicrafts

The workshop

Ekansh

Stays with the karigars in Jaipur until a piece can leave.

The making

Held to a slower standard

Hand-carved white marble lotus sculpture
The hand

A person, a tool, a block of stone. The hours do not show until the piece is finished.

Hand-carved white marble Ganesha murti
The block

Murtis cut from a single stone. Forms that have lived in Indian marble for centuries.

Pietra dura marble jewelry box
The set

Pietra dura, stone by stone. Objects meant to be lived with, given, and kept.

The atelier

If the piece is not in the line

Write to hello@rasasthya.com. We will tell you honestly what is possible, and how long it will take.