What should your living room make you feel? It sounds unusual to ask this about interior design. But the most enduring interiors are defined first by what they make you feel.
The Rasa theory, first systematised in the Natyaśāstra (roughly 2nd century BCE), describes nine fundamental emotional essences that any well-made thing can evoke. For residential interiors, two Rasas are most sought: Śānta (serenity, peace) and Śṛṅgāra (love, beauty, the warmth of belonging).
Śānta is created by natural materials that absorb rather than reflect, proportions that do not compress the body, light that is soft and directional, and the deliberate absence of visual noise. Śṛṅgāra is created by warmth — in material (wood, textile, clay), in light (amber rather than white), in the evidence of care.
The question we begin with at Aucitya Studio is not “what style do you like?” It is: when you close the door and you are finally home, what do you want to feel?