Col 3048 Varanasi:Benares

Red Halo

Among Designldg's albums - From August 12, 2006 until August 20, 2007.



  • Col 3048 Varanasi:Benares

    Sometimes it's not easy to find a name for a colour. We decided that this substancial and opulent dark red will be named Varanasi. It became one of the most important colour in our linen collections.

  • Golden fishes

    There is a design in our collection named Banaras which shows fishes and lotus. Once we did those fragrance accessories to complete the line.

  • Red Halo



  • Fragrance "Benaras"


  • Collection "Prem"

    "Prem" means love. This collection is in pure heavy linen with big Heart embroidery inspired by the symbol of love "Taj Mahal".


  • Throw "Dil Se"

    "Dil se" means from the bottom of my heart, it was a famous Bollywood movie a few years ago.

  • Tablecloth "Prem"

    "Prem" means love. This collection is in 100% linen with big Heart embroidery inspired by the symbol of love "Taj Mahal".

  • Table runner "Prem"

    "Prem" means love. This collection is in 100% linen with big Heart embroidery inspired by the symbol of love "Taj Mahal".


  • Tablecloth "Assam"

    Tablecloth in 100% linen with embroideries of several leaves from the state of Assam.

  • Cushions "Benaras"


  • About Clothes

    "And the weaver said, "Speak to us of Clothes." And he answered: Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you…


  • Lust or Advertising

    “Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.” (John Lahr, American theater critic). This is another picture of our new collection for the advertising catalogue. Anand, our favourite model, is wrapped in a woolen throw with aari embroi…

  • Once upon a time, an Indo-Greek kingdom

    Anand is a majhi (hindi word for boatman) in Varanasi (Benaras). I know him since a few years and whenever I need to go from one part of the city ot the other I usually ask him to carry me on river Ganga with his boat. In summers few tourists come and he…

  • With a Zebra Fierce

    When I asked Anand to pretend to be a zebra for this picture he was wondering what was going on, there is no zebra in India. My words were not making any sense to him, I told him to grab the throw and to look in several directions till I felt a king of ze…


  • Uncovered Dreams

    “In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.” (Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) - American author, poet, naturalist, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist) This is one more…

  • Myth of Equality

    "If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed. " (Howard Mumford Jones - American writer and professor, 1892–1980) Anand is holding a linen throw made of an Aari embroidery with a paisl…

  • Alive

    “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” (Howard Thurman - American Theologian, Clergyman and Activist, 1900-1981) Since several seasons I take most of th…