About Us
Our Story
WOOD & SALT was born one hot summer afternoon whilst walking through Mapusa market in North Goa. We met Meenal Tai, a radiant, joyful woman selling salt that she harvests from the traditional Goan salt pans or buys from travellers as far away as the Himalayas. Meenal Tai measures out the salt in a small wooden cup that her father had carved for her. The simple sheesham cup has no embellishments besides a series of rough grooves that run around the base and a tiny handle to hold.
Deeply inspired by Meenal Tai’s story and the histories she carries with her, we brought together our skills as designers and archivists with an innate curiosity for craft to set up WOOD & SALT.
Deeply inspired by Meenal Tai’s story and the histories she carries with her, we brought together our skills as designers and archivists with an innate curiosity for craft to set up WOOD & SALT.
Our Work
Wood and Salt celebrates the small things, the forgotten things, the quiet things, the things that make us who we are.
Made in collaboration with the craftspeople we work with, we draw from a vast pool of memory passed down orally between generations. Each piece is crafted by hand, made in small batches, celebrating the slow meditative movements of handcrafted design. The process is thought driven and carries with a slowness that we hope to celebrate through our work. We work with single family craft clusters, whose skills and memories are a shared experience between parent and child. We are ever grateful to be included in their lives.
Our work with these families takes us from the cool valleys of the Shivaliks to the outer deserts of Gujarat and along the banks of mighty rivers – developing objects that are useful, beautiful and filled with memories. We begin with an immense respect for the materials and the artisan in the hope of creating and embedding histories, stories and memories into each of our products.