Nolwa reimagines traditional craft forms with contemporary perspectives. Our first collection is inspired by Bidri, a 600-year-old metal inlay craft form of India, featuring a mystical patination process.The Monolith was developed working alongside craftsmen and designers, as an exploration of how Bidri would interact with a sensibility rooted in mathematics, geometric lines and abstraction. We invited Stephen K Molloy and Gunnar Rönsch, a German designer duo with a keen interest in patterns and the mathematics of nature, to apply their vision to Bidri.The Monolith combines dazzle camouflage patterns with mid-century graphic and perpendicular art, creating a delightful uncertainty of spatial dimensions. The elongated multi-cuboid construction is patterned over by handcrafted parallel lines in Bidri. The variations in line gaps and thicknesses, along with the use of negative space — all come together to distort perception and reveal the secrets of the Monolith only as you walk around it.