" Most people walk a design show to look. Bhaktti Sabhlok walks one to read. "
At The Pune Design Show 2026, hosted by A&i, the founder of Furniture Creations by UCD moved through the floor the way she moves through a technical drawing: joint by joint, surface by surface, decision by decision. Not as a judge. As a maker looking at the work of other makers.
A Show Built for the Design Community
The Pune Design Show, presented by A&i Digest, has become one of the calendar’s clearer signals of where Indian design is heading. It brings architects, designers, and furniture studios into one room, not to sell to each other, but to show each other what they have built.
For Bhaktti, trained as both an architect and an industrial designer, that room offered something specific: a chance to look at furniture the way its maker intended it to be looked at.
Reviewing Furniture, One Piece at a Time
Bhaktti’s walk through the show centred on the work of young product designers exhibiting their pieces. With each, the conversation followed the same shape. A material choice, questioned. A construction call, explained. A proportion, weighed.
This was not a verdict handed down. It was one furniture maker reading another’s reasoning, the way UCD reads a client’s drawing before a single piece is built. Where the joinery held, she said so. Where a finish carried its own story, she asked why.
That is the discipline Furniture Creations by UCD applies to every commission it takes on. No catalogue. No collection. Just the concept in front of her, examined on its own terms.
An Architect's Eye on the Wider Floor
Beyond the designers she sat with, Bhaktti moved through the rest of the show as an architect evaluates a project: stone, marble, upholstery, soft furnishings, outdoor furniture, all read against the same question she asks of her own work. Does this understand the space it is meant to serve?
It is the same question that built Furniture Creations by UCD. A brand founded on the idea that furniture should carry the intelligence of the space around it, not compromise it.
What The Pune Design Show Confirmed
Events like this one are where a brand’s convictions get tested against a wider field. The Pune Design Show 2026, hosted by A&i, gave Bhaktti Sabhlok a floor full of bespoke furniture, young designers, and honest craft to measure against her own.
Furniture Creations by UCD was built on the belief that furniture is never just style. The Pune Design Show gave that belief good company.
"Mindfully designed. Honestly built."
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