Nikhaar Dhawan and Bahaar Dhawan Rohatgi have built their practice around bespoke interiors and statement furniture for a discerning, ultra-luxury clientele, and their new Sculptural Lunar Drip Visage Table shows exactly why that discipline translates so naturally into collectible design. A textured, lunar-surfaced form carries a black drip-like top across it, and the two elements read less as base and tabletop than as a single continuous gesture that happens to hold a surface for a coffee cup.
That instinct, treating furniture as a medium for sculptural expression rather than a category with fixed proportions, comes directly from how the duo approaches space design: every element considered on its own merit, built around feeling rather than convention. The comparison holds up in the making, not just the look. The sculptural volume is built from FRP and epoxy resin, textured by hand, with an internal mild steel frame doing the structural work beneath the surface. Getting that balance right, a piece substantial enough to read as sculpture but light enough to actually reposition in a room, is the kind of technical problem that separates designers playing with form from designers who can genuinely execute it. AARQE9’s experience with bespoke, client-specific commissions clearly carries over here.
The full process runs five to six weeks per piece, covering form development, structural fabrication, sculpting, texturing, and finishing as one continuous build rather than handed-off stages. Dhawan and Rohatgi describe wanting the object to feel discovered rather than constructed, as though the tabletop found its way into an already-existing sculptural form. The final piece supports that intention: the silhouette asks to be noticed first, the dual-toned, mineral-like surface finish second, and only after that does it register as a fully functional coffee or occasional table.
The sisters bring backgrounds in fashion, film, costume, painting, and curation into their design language, visible in how unwilling the piece is to sit quietly inside conventional furniture categories. With an appropriate protective coating, the table can also move outdoors, extending its presence beyond the interiors it was clearly built to command first.
AARQE9 works at the intersection of personalised design and fine art, crafting pieces meant to be lived with and admired in equal measure. The Sculptural Lunar Drip Visage Table suggests that’s a balance the studio already handles with real confidence, not as a debut experiment but as work from designers who know precisely what they’re building toward.
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