Aspura
Aspura is a gallery for collectible carpets, both contemporary editions and highly curated antiques. Working with a small roster of cult status designers, artists and curators, the carpets offered by Aspura are exceptional – created or chosen with great consideration by tastemakers from across contemporary culture. The gallery launched in 2025 with a solo project by Rashid Rana, where the artist, well known for his photo works that appear as traditional carpets, designed a silk carpet for the first time. For its second exhibition, Aspura offers the Kamala House Carpet designed by BV Doshi. Created in 1959 for the architect’s personal home in Ahmedabad, the carpet was originally produced by the Ahmedabad-based weaver Rajen and this new edition of 10 has been created in close collaboration with the BV Doshi estate. The bamboo silk rug is significant in that it is the first piece of design by the Pritzker Prize winner to go into production. Expanding the scope of Aspura, the gallery also offers two antique desks by BV Doshi, which were part of the furniture he designed for CEPT University in Ahmedabad in 1966. Displayed together, with scenography inspired by the interior of Kamala House, Aspura sheds light on these previously undocumented designs of a different scale by the great architect of modernist India.
