New furniture and artworks from Goa

You like to be a talking point. Your clothes, your shoes, your bags — and your house. ‘Sotodecor’, a stunning exhibition of furniture, accessories, and artworks certainly will spark conversation — if snake scales on your table tops don’t give you a funny feeling.

Swiss-born, but now forever Goan artist couple, Sonja Weder and Thomas Schnider enamel their products with real leaves, plant fibres, and real shedded snake scales. Eco-friendly boards made of cotton, other pressed fibres and metal are used for the main body of the products.

Trendy loved the money plant centre table with grooves for tea-lights, the banana leaf candle stands and the console with its eye-catching reptilian surface.

Dress up your walls, too, with the media collage artwork made of seeds, petals and leaves on handmade paper, acrylic sheets and glass.

The products are surprisingly durable. Under several artfully-applied coats of lacquer, you can still see, touch and feel the outline of each vein.

Your guest will be talking about your home. For a long, long time.

On at Karkhana, F-322, Lado Sarai (near Crescent at Qutab) till April 8. Telephone: 65957097. Closed Sundays. Website: www.sotodecor.com.
Price: About Rs. 3,000 to Rs. 50,000 (and higher for art works).