These days, nothing surprises Eeshaan Kashyap. “It’s the new normal,” he says, smiling from his Zoom tile, referring to the sort of commissions currently crossing his desk. A ruby-studded knife to slice a wedding cake. And more recently, a thali set emblazoned with jade. Then again, for Kashyap, what’s normal anyway?
At 40, most roads in his world lead back to food. A trained chef who no longer cooks professionally, Kashyap treats the table less as furniture and more as theatre—a platform where material, memory and meal collide. “Food sits at the heart of everything I make,” he says. It’s not a pivot so much as a philosophy, one now travelling to Hyderabad in the form of Mise-en-Scène, a multi-sensory tableware exhibition mounted in collaboration with gallerist and interior designer Supraja Rao and Nitya Reddy of Signature Developers, running from 27-28 February 2026 at Kadari Gallery. If Kashyap brings the mise, Rao and Reddy bring the scène—and, crucially, the city.
