This multi-hyphenate's studio is a playground to unlearn

Multidisciplinary culinary product designer Eeshan Kashyap does his creative experiments with food in his studio

- Mahalakshmi Prabhakaran

Chef, food stylist, food and beverage curator, product designer, photographer... It's difficult to find one title to describe all that Eeshan Kashyap does. A multi-hyphenate creative mind, Kashyap is the co-founder of the eponymous Eeshaan Kashyap & Co in Delhi and has earned a reputation for his outré, maximalist work that spans food styling, restaurant consultancy, experience curation and tablescaping.

A chef by education—he's a graduate of the Oberoi Centre for Learning and Development—Kashyap and chef Ritu Dalmia did the "buffetscaping" for the Ambani pre-wedding celebrations at Vantara in Jamnagar, and he has created food installations for the Delhi Contemporary Art Week at Bikaner House in Delhi in 2024.

"I look at food as a medium for design. My attempt is to make every day more beautiful or unusual, and I work with mixed materials to narrate stories around my table," he explains.

Among the creations he says he is most proud of are a sugar chandelier, popcorn jewellery, a tablecloth made with leftover bread and stitched with rice thread.

"These are just some of the things we have tried at the studio," he says, before telling Mint about his studio that serves as his "playground". Edited excerpts from the interview:

Describe your current workspace to us.