A Jhula That Brings Its Own Ceiling
A jhula hung from the slab is a beautiful thing and it asks something of the building: a fixing into structural concrete, an installer confident about where the reinforcement runs, and in an apartment, usually a conversation with the society. Supplying the swing with its own stand removes all of that. The two carved uprights and the arched rail between them carry the entire load, the plinths spread it across the floor, and the jhula simply stands where you put it.
What that gives you is freedom. It can go on a balcony this year and in the living room next year. It can move house with you. It can be positioned to catch the light or the breeze and then repositioned when you rearrange the room. And because the stand is carved to the same standard as the seat, with turned uprights, carved capitals and foliate plinths, it reads as part of the piece rather than as a frame holding it up. Everything here is carved and polished by hand by master Indian artisans, and the photographs show the actual jhula.