Garima Roy

Other-Wise

ABOUT SELLER

Garima is a furniture designer and a parent of a one year old. She has the designer’s curse! (I must design and make things myself). Her son is the guinea pig and seems to enjoy being brought up in the midst of creation by both his parents. Garima trained to be a furniture designer at the National Institute of Design. She practices design in Goa. She is drawn to simple design and objects that function well. ‘Natural’ is the commonality that her design and parenting share. Products by ‘Other-Wise’ use natural materials and local skills; and her parenting choices so far have included natural birth, cloth-diapering, co-sleeping and baby-wearing. This forms the background and foundation of Other-Wise. As a parent, she found it difficult to find products that agreed with her philosophy, which is to offer her child a natural and neutral environment to grow in. Therefore, she decided to develop meaningful and simple products for kids and parents.
Other than design and parenting, she willingly makes time for gardening, short cycling trips, beach, and music; and not so willingly for laundry!