Vaarsa London

15/10/2026

The board I reach for every single day is leaving the shop for good.

Next in my series of objects I actually live with.

📌 Teak Wood Charcuterie Board
📌 Teak Wood Personal Board

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I’ve said it here before.
I never knew how much a good chopping board mattered, or why you’d want more than one, until I stocked these.

Now I can’t cook without them.
🔪 I chop on them
🥕 I prep on them
🧀 Then I flip them over and carry them to the table

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What drew me to them was simple.
A design this minimal, this unapologetically modern, made in India.
Not in Delhi or Mumbai, but in the hills of Nagaland 🌿

Each board is carved from teak seasoned for months.
That’s where its strength and grain come from.

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But unrest in the region and heavy rains have left too little seasoned wood to make them in this shape for at least the next two years.

Once these last few go, they join their cousin, the Teak Wood Round Vase, in the archive.

Thank you to the makers in Nagaland whose work now lives in so many of your kitchens 🤍

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What’s left is part of our Final Pieces offer, 25% off or more.
Link in bio 🔗

🎁 PS: Paired with the matching Personal Board, it makes a lovely gift.

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13/10/2026

This is a masala dabba, the brass spice box that sits beside the stove in Indian kitchens.

One round box, seven bowls inside, one lid on top. Turmeric, cumin, mustard seed, chilli, coriander, garam masala and whichever spice your family reaches for most. The whole meal sits in front of you before the oil is hot.

Lift the lid, take a pinch with your fingers, straight into the pan. No jars, no hunting through the cupboard.

Ours is solid brass, hand-etched in a Moradabad workshop and curated in London. It is made to be used every day and passed down.

Save this for your Diwali gifting list, or send it to the person whose kitchen needs one.

Objects worth giving. Objects worth keeping.

Brass Spice Box, Classic eight-inch, £65. Shipping UK-wide, link in bio.



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13/10/2026

13/10/2026

If there is one object, that every single member of my family uses - it’s this.

📌 The Charpayi Tray

Ad decor, as organiser, as a little seat, as laptop test, as my daily tray for coffee and breakfast; i find myself reaching out for it whenever it is not around.

I have a few left, and I have marked it down by 25% so they land with you rather than in a shipping crate with me to New York.

Bring one home?

Link in Bio. 🔗

12/10/2026

The good homeware is now 25% off. What are you waiting for?

📌 Kusuma Cushion Covers
📌 Charpayi Serving Tray
📌 Handpainted Chapati Box
📌 Kansa Gua Sha
📌 Teak Wood Charcuterie Board
📌 Brass Coasters

Link in bio 🔗



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11/09/2026

it is friday. let this be your weekend job, give your kansa gua sha a proper clean.

the dark patches you see after a few weeks are not grime and nothing has gone wrong. it is the high-tin alloy oxidising the way good kansa, brass and silver all do. ours lives in daily rotation and after three months it has taken on its own map of marks.

a slow saturday morning is the right time for it. a little pitambari, a soft cloth, warm water, dry it fully. the colour lifts, the shine comes back, and slowly it dulls again. that quiet cycle is the object settling into your routine, cast by hand on the Indian subcontinent to be kept, not shelved.

thank you for tending to yours the way you would anything meant to last.

for us, beauty ages.



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09/09/2026

Eeeeek. When the shop you buy from starts buying from you, you know you are doing something right. Spot our brass jar holding the coffee beans, next time you shop at Arabian Oud ()



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06/09/2026

People ask how I decide what goes in the shop. This is how.

I fall for the object first. I keep turning it over in my hands. I become my own customer and only once I am quietly obsessed with the piece, it carries the Vaarsa name.

📌 Himalayan Pressed Flower Candle



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05/09/2026

There is a certain hour after a long shift when the body just wants something. For Dr Puja Sharma, it used to be bhujiya.

Then she went back to her roots. Her badi maa’s black sesame aka till ke laddoo. Dark, nutty, quietly full of everything the seed mix carries. The kind of recipe that was never written down, only shown, hand over hand.

Now it is a weekend ritual. The seed blend lives in her Brass Spice Box, portioned to the exact ratio she needs for the full week. The finished laddoo rest in a Brass Jar, catching a warm glow at sunset.

This is the first of our new series, Cooking with the Dabba. Real people, real kitchens, real conversations, the spice box doing far more than holding spice.

Thank you for letting us into your home, Puja



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