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The Designers
Two generations, one design language — a father who brought Indo-European jewellery to Delhi, and a son carrying it into its sixth generation.
Two generations, one design language — a father who brought Indo-European jewellery to Delhi, and a son carrying it into its sixth generation.
Nipun grew up in his father's workshop, spending afternoons after school watching stones set and designs take shape long before he understood what he was learning. That early apprenticeship became a formal one: a degree in Industrial Product Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, an internship with Smart Design in New York, hands-on diamond manufacturing training in Surat, and top honours in GIA's jewellery design programme. He has since built two manufacturing facilities of his own — bringing an industrial designer's precision to a craft he first learned by watching, and now leads as the house's sixth generation.
Rakesh Khanna opened his first jewellery boutique at the Chanakya Cinema in the early 1980s, styling bespoke pieces for diplomats and Delhi's south side elite. His first collection, unveiled in October 1984, drew on early 19th-century Indo-European styles — the beginning of a design language that would take him to the Festival of India exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York, collaborations with designers like Mary McFadden and Kazua Ogawa, and, in 1992, the De Beers Diamonds International Award — making him the first Indian to win it.
