Engineers who fell in love with wood.
Founded by Avantika and Hitesh, 2015.
Solid Bench wasn't born from a business plan. It was born from a frustration — Avantika and Hitesh, furnishing their first home, found a market stuck between mass-produced flat-pack furniture and overpriced unimagined imports.
With backgrounds in precision engineering and architectural systems, they began in a small rented garage in Gurgaon — dismantling old joinery, studying how timber breathes, moves, and ages across seasons. It was here that engineering rigor first met the organic complexity of solid wood.
Today, the studio is a manifestation of that obsession a space where logic meets ancestral instinct.
The discipline of joinery.
Founded by Avantika and Hitesh, 2015.
Our philosophy is rooted in the Japanese tradition of Shokunin — the social obligation of the craftsman to do their best for the general welfare of the people. This is expressed through complex, glue-less joinery that allows the wood to expand and contract without compromising structural integrity.
With backgrounds in precision engineering and architectural systems, they began in a small rented garage in Gurgaon — dismantling old joinery, studying how timber breathes, moves, and ages across seasons. It was here that engineering rigor first met the organic complexity of solid wood.
Today, the studio is a manifestation of that obsession a space where logic meets ancestral instinct.
Beyond the machines, it is the hand that understands the wood's tension.
Karigars, founders, and the wood between.
Our team of senior karigars possesses an ancestral knowledge of grain behaviour — passed down across generations and refined across thousands of joints. The engineering rigour of our designs never loses the human warmth of true craft.
Come see the workshop.Touch the wood.
We're 30 minutes from Cyber Hub. Saturdays work best. See the joinery up-close, meet the karigars, walk through ongoing builds. No appointment-only pressure — we just love showing people the workshop.