Our Founder - Curating Heritage, Creating Heirlooms

Our Founder

House of Saaj began at home.

Living between cultures—married into a first-generation Indian American family and raising children across geographies—I felt a growing awareness of what was missing from our everyday spaces. Not beauty, but continuity. Not décor, but presence.

I was looking for objects that carried memory without nostalgia, heritage without performance—work that could live naturally in a contemporary home without being reduced to trend or motif. When I couldn’t find it, I began curating it.

House of Saaj is rooted in the heritage arts and crafts of India—an umbrella that holds traditional and folk forms shaped by region, ritual, and generational knowledge. These are not heritage-inspired interpretations. They are heritage itself, placed with intention so they may continue.

This work is my pranaam—to the artists whose hands carry centuries of wisdom, and to those of us navigating more than one world, seeking a sense of belonging through the spaces we live in.

I believe a home is not built by objects alone, but by the rituals they support, the time they witness, and the care with which they are chosen. What we live with shapes how we live.

House of Saaj exists as an extension of that belief.

— Shilpa