How a left-brain couple found their most fulfilling work in a right-brain pursuit.
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. Neither reflected the soul of the material they loved or the permanence they sought.
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.
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.
By studying the work of masters like George Nakashima, we learned to listen to the spirit of the tree. We don't force a design upon a slab; we find the furniture hidden within the grain.
"The tree's spirit lives on in the finished piece."
— George Nakashima, master craftsman
Karigars, founders, and the wood between.
Beyond the machines, it is the hand that understands the wood's tension.
Our karigars bring decades of intuition to every piece."
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.
It is this team — alongside Hitesh and Avantika — that turns a slab into a piece worth keeping for fifty years.
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.