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UCUORO Announces Studio in Mumbai with Elevated Design

June 3, 2025  by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Industry   

Founded on the belief that furniture is not a product but a form of personal expression, UCUORO disrupts the conventional idea of luxury with a language rooted in stillness, substance, and soul.

At its heart, UCUORO is more than a design studio — it is a movement. A quiet rebellion against spectacle-led aesthetics, the brand draws inspiration from timeless philosophies, slow living, and a deep reverence for craftsmanship. Each piece is conceived as a tactile narrative — an invitation to pause, to feel, to remember. UCUORO’s ethos lies in creating spaces that speak softly but leave a lasting echo — spaces where design is lived, not displayed. 

It is from this philosophy that Salone by UCUORO emerges — not as a launch event, but as a living embodiment of the brand’s emotional and artistic worldview. Introduced today in Mumbai, the Salone is UCUORO’s first public gesture in India — a bold, avant-garde cultural format that reimagines what it means to experience luxury furniture. Unlike conventional unveilings driven by commerce, the Salone invites guests into a curated, contemplative space where form meets feeling and storytelling replaces selling.

Conceived as an evolving living gallery, the Salone opens its doors every second week by invitation only. These curated gatherings are not transactional — they are conversational. Each moment is choreographed to foster meaningful connection between guest and space, object and emotion. Inspired by the spirit of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile — a coveted furniture fair on the global stage where ideas, prototypes, and provocations shape the future of design — UCUORO’s Salone reimagines this legacy through intimate, immersive storytelling. Outside of these moments, UCUORO remains quietly open by private appointment only, preserving the intimacy and depth its design philosophy demands.

“We didn’t create UCUORO to fill a showroom, we created it to fill a void. For too long, design in India has been loud in form but quiet in feeling. The Salone is our way of reversing that — of creating a space where furniture speaks in whispers, where design doesn’t perform, it pauses. It is not about exclusivity, it is about presence — about making space for stillness, for slowness, for stories that take their time to unfold.” says Unnati Varma, Founder at UCUORO Designs.

The Salone unveiled eight original collections, including limited-edition pieces and numbered works with global scarcity. One such piece was the Reverie, a poetic form that evokes floating balloons — merging fantasy with structure, comfort with surrealism. Crafted by master artisans — woodworkers from Rajasthan, metal sculptors from Moradabad — each piece is made in small batches, with tactile finishes and timeless silhouettes that honour India’s heritage of craftsmanship while boldly pushing aesthetic boundaries. 

The Salone is a stage, and each object is set within narrative vignettes and spatial compositions designed to slow the senses. UCUORO entails stillness with substance as it exhibits art in furniture — a story of luxe and utility brought together in each piece.

In choosing Mumbai as its launchpad, UCUORO honors a city that holds space for contradiction and creativity. Here, access is earned through authenticity. The brand’s appointment-only, emotion-first format disrupts the expected and invites a slower, more intentional rhythm of discovery — one that resonates deeply with collectors, architects, and aesthetes seeking meaning beyond mass.

Looking ahead, UCUORO is developing capsule collaborations with architects, textile artists, and visual designers, as well as immersive partnerships with boutique hotels and design-led residences. These collaborations are not co-branded ventures, they are co-created experiences — blurring the lines between furniture, art, and architecture.

Technology, too, finds its place at UCUORO — not as a replacement for craft, but as a quiet enabler of it. Clients can explore augmented reality tools to visualize pieces in their own spaces, engage with virtual walkthroughs of the Salone, or personalise materials through interactive digital interfaces. Behind the scenes, AI-driven prototyping allows the brand to push creative boundaries. Yet every finished piece is shaped by human hands, rooted in emotion and experience. In a world chasing automation, UCUORO chooses intimacy.

The weeks ahead will continue to unfold UCUORO’s multidimensional storytelling, beginning with Salone by UCUORO: Edition 01, the store debut, and evolving into a series of immersive experiences. These include Maison & Matter (a podcast on design and philosophy), Art for Thought (an evening of curated art), The Literary (open-floor conversations), Sculpting Silhouettes (a fashion-led form study), The SpeakEasy (a high-tea salon), The Blanche Project (a live art session), and Purfect Premiere, a whimsical unveiling dedicated to UCUORO’s one-of-a-kind pet collection.