Diwali 2026: Rajesh Pratap Singh wants to dress your home

After nearly three decades in couture, fashion designer Rajesh Pratap Singh recently launched Pratap Home, a home furnishing studio, in Mumbai. He is known for textile innovation in couture, using handwoven heirloom fabric and innovating with Tencel. Pratap now brings this mélange of technology and tradition to this debut home collection for India.The couturier has created homeware before: a one-time home and lifestyle collection created in partnership with New Delhi-based lifestyle brand Nicobar, and collaborations with FCML (a luxury interior and designer surface provider in India in Delhi) on tiles and architectural surfaces. This time however, he leads with selvedge-edge quilts and bed linen (in soft blues, browns, and a pop of pink), monochrome and beige table linen, black metal candelabras, sheets, rugs, and embossed tiles using block print and embroidery techniques for his debut collection. For the launch, Singh used a hospital bed as the stage, with fluorescent white lighting, a nod to his autumn/winter 2015 show, which used the sterile setting to pay tribute to healthcare workers. The simplicity and stark visuals for Pratap Home are intentional and speak to the designer’s upbringing in a family with a medical background (his father was a cardiologist), while also allowing the ‘less is more’ design ethos to shine.We speak with the designer about his muse for Pratap Home, his home world and his philosophy on styling spaces: For the first home collection, a rich natural world has been evoked in materials, florals, and memory. Why did you choose these themes and palette for the collection? Home is where memory lives most physically: the cloth on a table or the light in a room in the afternoon. I wanted the collection to feel found rather than designed. The florals aren’t decoration. They come from gardens, from things remembered (the rose collection across tableware, bedding, and sheers is inspired by an old floral fresco in a fort in Rajasthan) and they are rendered through weave and material. The palette stays close to earth, mostly undyed fibre and weathered surfaces, so the pieces settle into a home instead of announcing themselves. When dressing up your dining space, how would you layer items to showcase your table linen? Start with a heavier/key handwoven cloth as the ground. Add a runner in a contrasting texture, so a slubby khadi sits against something flatter or contradictory. Napkins can break the pattern instead of matching it. Nothing should look like a set. It should look like it was gathered over time. Mix hard with soft. Your wall tile collection can create art walls and find space on tabletops. Please comment? The tile collection, such as Sherkhanum, Welcome to the Jungle and Kasavu designs, is done with FCML. A multi-purpose collection, it is modelled on our brocade expressions in the past. The tiles can can be used on floors, walls, and ceilings—both indoors and outdoors. The collection can be used as décor or to create art walls. We’ve also used it on tabletops, and it can be incorporated into any home product as part of customisation or bespoke projects. How does your home collection meet the aspirations of young Indians whose homes are their sanctuaries and personal style statements all wrapped into one? Young Indians are better travelled and more discerning than any generation before, and some of them are tired of homes that look like catalogues of places and products. It’s about living with fewer, truer things. It is these customers we address. Published - November 06, 2026 06:33 pm IST