Turned Wood Bowls by Kathkani Studio, Shimla

Kathkani Studio is a small-batch woodturning studio in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, that finishes its turned vessels in LEINOS. This set gathers three of their turned bowls: two in teak — one fully ebonised on the outside, one with an ebonised cove around a footed base — each keeping a warm, natural-wood interior, and a third turned from white ash with wire-burned bead rings around a gently flared profile. The ebonising and the burned rings are the studio's own heat treatments; the wood itself is sealed in LEINOS Interior Hardwax Oil 290, an open-pore oil that penetrates the timber rather than forming a film, so the turned surface keeps its grain and stays repairable. The studio first tagged LEINOS on Instagram with The Bloom, a turned sapele bowl in the same hardwax-oil finish.

Turned bowls are handled, filled and wiped, so the finish has to protect the wood without a plasticky build-up — which is where a hardwax oil suits them. 290 soaks into the wood and cures to a hard-wearing, open-pore surface that keeps the turned grain crisp and lets a worn spot be refreshed by re-oiling rather than stripping a film. On the ebonised teak it sits over the darkened outer wall and the natural interior alike, holding both in one repairable, low-sheen finish.