{"title":"The Art Room","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.03em; color: #1A1410; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;\"\u003eThere is a category of Indian making that sits between craft and fine art, and has never been given its proper name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.9; color: #2C2415; max-width: 720px;\"\u003eShadow puppetry, for instance. Tholpavakoothu from Kerala. Tholu Bommalata from Andhra Pradesh. These are not folk crafts in the hobbyist sense — they are ancient, technically demanding performance traditions, their figures cut from treated leather with the precision of a surgeon, painted with natural pigments that have not changed in centuries. The masters who practise them have spent lifetimes learning. Some are the last of their lineage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.9; color: #2C2415; max-width: 720px;\"\u003eThe Art Room at Antaara exists to give these works the context they deserve — not as cultural curiosities, but as serious art objects. Framed and finished for a contemporary wall. Chosen for their visual power as much as their provenance. Works that hold their own against anything produced in a Western studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.9; color: #2C2415; max-width: 720px;\"\u003eTo hang one of these pieces is not an act of nostalgia. It is an act of discernment — a statement that you know what you are looking at, and that you chose it because it is extraordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.9; color: #6B5535; font-style: italic; border-left: 2px solid #C4A96A; padding-left: 1.2rem; margin: 1.5rem 0; max-width: 720px;\"\u003eEach work is unique. Enquire to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"durga-by-kaash-gallery","title":"Durga by Kaash Gallery","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; color: #2C2415;\"\u003eRajeev Pulavar's Durga carries the weight of a tradition that is nearly lost. A master of Kerala's ancient Tholpavakoothu shadow puppetry, Pulavar works in meticulous hand-stitched leather — each piece a figure, a story, a world. Set beneath a museum-quality glass cloche, this Durga is not decoration. It is an act of preservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; color: #2C2415; font-style: italic;\"\u003eBy Kaash Gallery · Kerala, India\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; color: #6B5535;\"\u003eHand-stitched leather on a display mount, presented under glass. An edition of two. Each is unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 2rem;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tally.so\/r\/68M9aO?piece=Durga+by+Kaash+Gallery\" style=\"display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.3em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B6914; border: 1px solid #8B6914; padding: 14px 32px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eCommission This Piece\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antaara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59705054069070,"sku":null,"price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1038\/3448\/5070\/files\/DurgabyKaash3.jpg?v=1779303681"},{"product_id":"tholu-bommalata-hanuman-art-by-kaash-gallery","title":"Hanuman — Tholu Bommalata","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; color: #2C2415;\"\u003eTholu Bommalata is Andhra Pradesh's ancient tradition of shadow puppetry — figures cut from translucent leather, their forms backlit to cast moving shadows against a screen. This Hanuman, rendered by the craftsmen of Kaash Gallery, carries all the power and grace of the deity in full — each cut deliberate, each detail hand-worked. It is simultaneously a sacred object and a masterwork of Indian craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; color: #2C2415; font-style: italic;\"\u003eBy Kaash Gallery · Hand-cut leather · Andhra Pradesh, India\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; color: #6B5535;\"\u003eHand-cut and painted translucent leather. Each piece is unique — no two are identical. Presented mounted and ready to display. A work of devotional craft for collector interiors and significant walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 2rem;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tally.so\/r\/68M9aO?piece=Tholu+Bommalata+Hanuman+Art\" style=\"display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.25em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8B6914; border: 1px solid #8B6914; padding: 14px 32px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eCommission This Piece\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antaara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59791744631118,"sku":null,"price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1038\/3448\/5070\/files\/thot23224_1800x1200_ea2892e6-a4ce-4550-8432-350f20bf499e.webp?v=1780431869"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1038\/3448\/5070\/collections\/DurgabyKaash3.jpg?v=1780429984","url":"https:\/\/antaara.co.uk\/collections\/the-art-room.oembed","provider":"Antaara","version":"1.0","type":"link"}