Some people travel to escape. Others, to collect.
But there is another kind of traveler—one who moves not to consume the world, but to be changed by it. One who searches not for what’s trending, but for what endures.
At Nigaam, that spirit runs deep. Across our entire team—designers, gem specialists, goldsmiths, and founders—there’s a shared instinct: to look a little further, linger a little longer, and let our curiosity lead us to new discoveries. Whether in the alleys of Old Delhi or the backstreets of Palermo, someone from Nigaam is always discovering. Always listening.
It’s a way of moving through the world that has nothing to do with checklists and everything to do with attention. It’s in the hushed reverence of a tilemaker’s studio in Fez. In the taste of fresh white mulberries from a vendor with whom we don't share a language, but he smiles like a friend. In the quiet thrill of finding a French lace merchant tucked behind a hardware shop in the Marais—still working from ledgers written by hand.
This isn’t the kind of luxury that’s photographed and tagged. It’s the kind that seeps into your sense of self. And stays.
The Nigaam founders—born in India, living between Hong Kong and New York—carry this ethos with them. They work in airports as often as ateliers, blending ideas from Kyoto and Jaipur, Lisbon and Lahore, until design becomes a kind of global conversation. Their passports are heavy, but it’s their gaze—their ability to notice, to absorb, to reimagine—that gives weight to their work.
The spirit of exploration lives in everyone here.
In our conversations, you’ll hear stories about braving a rainstorm in Oaxaca to meet a weaver at the edge of a forest. About eating the best soup dumplings of a lifetime beside a basketball court in Kowloon. About visiting a fifth-generation metalworker in the Negev Desert who made no sale that day but shared mint tea and time.
These aren’t anecdotes ... they’re practices. And they shape what we do. Quietly. Intentionally.
WE have learned that when you walk through the world with reverence, you begin to understand that beauty—true beauty—is everywhere. You just have to be paying attention.
