Old matchboxes are igniting new ideas for these Indian creatives

April 14, 2026

Old matchboxes are igniting new ideas for these Indian creatives

Maachis Designer Sonal Nagwani, who started Maachis with Kevin Thomas and is now running it on her own, used to build miniature furniture out of matchboxes while growing up. “That tactile, almost obsessive relationship with the object never really left me,” she says. Years later, she found phillumenist Gautam Hemmady’s matchbox archive through the Tasveer

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