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Our story
Two friends, one ocean, and a mandala rebuilt
What we make
Layered wood, not a print of it
Intarsia makes layered wood mandalas. Every piece is built from eight to ten separate sheets of wood, cut one at a time, painted one at a time, and stacked so the pattern has real depth you can see from across a room.
Everything is designed and made in our own studio and workshop in Gujarat, India, and ships to you from the United States. Two of us run it. Nothing is licensed, drop-shipped, or bought in.
in·tar·sianoun · woodworking
A real woodworking technique, centuries old. It means fitting separate pieces of wood together so precisely that the seams disappear and the picture holds as one surface. Historically it was done flat, inlaid into a panel.
We build it upward instead, in layers, so the picture has height as well as pattern. We took the name because it sets the bar: if you can see where the pieces meet, we are not finished.
Who's behind it
Two people, one house apart
We grew up one house apart in Gujarat. Same street, same evening light, arguing over a cricket call neither of us was ever going to concede.
Childhood friendships rarely end. They thin. School, then work, then an ocean between us.
Milan built a career in ecommerce in the United States. Jay stayed in Gujarat. He drew mandalas the way mandalas have always been drawn, ink on paper, and kept trying to describe the version that came off it.
In 2024 we sat back down. Jay had a table full of designs. Milan looked at them and said the sentence that turned into a company.
Jay
Co-founder · GujaratJay designs every piece and runs the workshop that makes them. Five stages before any wood is cut, five to fifteen days on the linework alone, eight to ten iterations before a design is approved. The colour theory took him years, because one wrong tone at one wrong depth turns a peacock into noise.
Milan
Co-founder · New YorkMilan runs everything on this side of the ocean: the store, the shipping, the sizing advice. He spent a decade building ecommerce for other people's brands before this one. He has played tabla since he was seven, trained in the classical tradition in Gujarat, and still performs classical sets, fusion, full live bands.
We started this because we could not find it ourselves
He had been looking at American walls for a decade by then.
We don't have anything like this here.
American stores sell prints, and printing is very good at what it does. Gallery originals are the other option, and they are worth what they cost, because one artist made one piece and there is no second one. What we could not find was anything in between: art with real depth, with a subject living inside it, made for a home rather than for a collection.
That gap is the whole company. One of us spends fifteen days deciding which colour belongs at which depth. The other spends them working out how to explain that to someone eight thousand miles away who has been burned by the word handmade before.
How it is made
We will tell you exactly how it gets made
A print is one layer and zero hours. One of ours is eight to ten layers, nine to eleven hours of hand labour, and roughly fifteen hundred individual subtractions, none of which can be undone.
The designThree stages, before any wood is cut
01
Drawing it out
The subject, what it has meant, and how large it sits inside the geometry around it. Drawn in full, in black and white, before a single colour is decided.
02
Vector linework, and colour across depth
How eight to ten layers interlock, and which colour belongs at which depth. This is the stage that kills designs. One wrong tone at one wrong depth and the whole piece reads as noise.
8–10 full iterations · none approved first pass
03
A full 3D render
Drop shadows, depth simulation, and how light will fall across the finished object. So we know how the piece behaves in a room before one irreversible cut is made.
The last chance to change anything
Design, per piece
5–15 days
The makingNine to eleven hours by hand
04
Cutting
Over two hundred cuts in every layer, aligned tighter than a hand can hold. So we cut by laser.
2–3 hrs · 1,500+ subtractions · none reversible
05
Sanding and painting
Sanding moves through multiple grit stages, tuned to the artwork. Then paint goes on by hand, one layer at a time.
2–3 hrs
06
Gluing the layers
Eight to ten layers aligned by eye and fixed in place. One layer slightly off collapses the depth entirely.
3 hrs · the longest stage
07
Polishing
A protective coating goes on, and holds the colour for years rather than months.
1 hr
08
Quality assurance and packing
A person checks it is right before it is boxed. Nothing was ever added to this piece — the image is what remains.
1 hr
Hand labour, per piece
9–11 hrs
When we say hand-finished, this is who we mean
A studio and workshop in a small town in Gujarat, where a team of craftsmen work on nothing but this. Building a mandala in layers is not a skill anyone arrives with, so we trained for it, and the same small group has sanded, painted, aligned and finished every piece that has ever left us.
What we promise, and what we don't
- Free express shippingOn every order in the US. Seven to fourteen business days to your door.
- Made to order, so no change-of-mind returnsNothing sits in a warehouse waiting for you. That is why we would rather talk you into the right piece than take one back.
- Damaged in transit, we replace itSend photos within seven days of delivery and we sort it out.
- We won't promise you an energySome of what we make ends up in meditation corners and prayer spaces. The meaning a piece holds is yours to bring, and every so often it turns out to matter more than anyone expected.
The pieces people stop in front of
Come see what your wall has been waiting for
If you are not sure which piece belongs in your space, talk to us first. We offer a personalized design consultation before you buy. More often than not, you will be talking to one of us directly.
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