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Bespoke dinnerware and cutleryA place at the table

Dinner sets from ৳65,000 and cutlery from ৳35,000, composed for your table by a new house in Dhaka. Each set arrives in a walnut chest with your name in bronze.

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NEELĀ blue-glazed plates and bowls set for a Bengali dinner: rice, fish curry, bhorta, dal and sweets, with brass glasses and marigolds, under a hanging lamp

NEELĀ, the founding series. Concept visualisation.

Hands in a green sari sleeve and a gold bangle setting one more blue-glazed plate at a table laid for dinner
Concept visualisation.

Room for one more

Our story begins with the place kept for a guest.

In a Bangladeshi home, there is almost always room for one more at the table. Someone brings another plate. Someone offers the best piece of fish. A mother asks you to eat a little more, even after you have said you are full.

This is how many of us first understood generosity: through food, through preparation, through the care someone took before we arrived.

BHOJ is being created to honour that care. We compose dinnerware for the way your household gathers and serves, and present it in a walnut chest with your name in bronze. We are a new house. Our history starts here.

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Each piece in its place

Every plate and bowl is designed for a Bengali meal, and each arrives in its own fitted place.

  1. A blue-glazed NEELĀ plate in a linen cloth, held in two hands over the open chest, bowls, plates and dishes in their navy velvet places beneath
    NEELĀ. Concept visualisation.

    First, a plate from its cloth, and the deep, varied blue of the glaze in your hands.

  2. Blue-glazed NEELĀ plates, bowls and a rectangular dish from above, each in its own navy velvet place in the walnut chest
    NEELĀ in its chest. Concept visualisation.

    Then every piece in its own place, waiting for its first evening at your table.

  3. Shown with a sample name.

    Above them, a name engraved in bronze: your family’s, with a dedication or a date worth keeping.

  4. The walnut chest with its lid raised a few centimetres, warm light falling across the navy velvet edge
    Concept visualisation.

    And the walnut chest they arrive in, to keep them between evenings.

The founding series

Two designs to begin with, made to order in numbered sets and engraved with your name.

Close view of the NEELĀ glaze: throwing rings from cobalt to turquoise, flecked with iron, meeting a brown rim

NEELĀ. Concept visualisation.

NEELĀ

Blue-glazed dinnerware for six, with serving pieces for rice, fish, curry and bhorta.

From ৳65,000For six guests, with the chest

Contents
32 pieces
Edition
100 numbered sets
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A gold-toned spoon and fork with black handles resting in fitted black sleeves

ĀBHĀ. Concept visualisation.

ĀBHĀ

Black and gold-toned cutlery for six, each piece in its own fitted sleeve.

From ৳35,000For six guests, with the chest

Contents
24 pieces
Edition
100 numbered sets
View the ĀBHĀ cutlery set

100 numbered sets per series; no more than 500 sets a year.

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Made personal

The pieces, the number of guests, the name on the plaque and the words inside are chosen with you.

Try your name on the plaque

Type it as you write it; the plaque sets it in capitals.

Up to 60 characters, over two lines.

Series

A sample engraving. In the guide you can engrave your own.

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Family nameEngraved on the bronze plaque, in your spelling, once you have approved the proof.This is a preview. Before anything is engraved, we send you a proof of the exact spelling and layout to approve. The number shown is a sample; yours is given when your commission is approved.
A NEELĀ collection laid out in a grid on ivory linen beside its walnut chest
CompositionYour number of guests, and serving pieces for rice, fish, curry, bhorta and sweets.Concept visualisation.
A blue-glazed NEELĀ plate and ĀBHĀ cutlery, black-handled and gold-toned, at a place set on ivory linen with a brass tumbler
OccasionA home of your own, a wedding, an anniversary, or your parents’ table.Concept visualisation.

Amma, Abba,

This is for the evenings still to come. Set the table, and keep a place for us.

With love,
Nadia, Imran and Sara

DedicationA short line beneath the name, and a longer letter placed beneath the plaque.A sample letter, with fictional names.
Three lining samples laid on walnut: indigo velvet, walnut-brown suede and ivory linen
LiningIndigo velvet, walnut-brown suede or ivory linen.Concept visualisation.

The NEELĀ dinner set

Every piece and accessory in the founding composition for six, as your proposal would list it.

For the table, 24 pieces

  • 6 dinner plates

    Rice and curries: the centre of each place

    About 28 cm across

  • 6 side plates

    Bhaja, roti, or a place for fish bones

    About 20 cm across

  • 6 bati

    A small bowl for dal or a curry beside the rice

    About 11 cm across

  • 6 dessert bowls

    Payesh, firni or mishti doi

    About 13 cm across

For serving, 8 pieces

  • 1 rice serving bowl

    Rice or polao for the table

    About 26 cm across

  • 1 oval fish platter

    Ilish or rui, whole or in pieces

    About 36 cm long

  • 2 curry servers

    A deep bowl for curries, dal or korma

    About 20 cm across

  • 4 bhorta dishes

    Aloo, begun or shutki bhorta

    About 12 × 9 cm

What comes with it

  • Walnut chest with fitted compartments, lined in indigo velvet
  • Engraved bronze plaque with your family name and edition number
  • A dedication letter
  • Story card that opens the NEELĀ design film by NFC or QR code, with a copy to download
  • Care guide for your pieces
  • Numbered edition certificate
  • Protective sleeves between stacked plates
  • Tailored fabric cover and protective outer packaging

A sample composition for six. Sizes are approximate until the first sample is measured. The plate shown is a concept visualisation.

See the NEELĀ dinner set

How a collection is made

Each collection passes through five stages, and each is checked before the next begins.

Design and making

Design
We settle the pieces, the colour and the words on the plaque with you, and record every approval in writing.
Making
The pieces are made to the approved reference sample, in batches against confirmed orders.
Finishing
Edges and glazes are checked against the sample, and the plaque is engraved with your approved text.

Inspection and packing

Inspection
Every complete set is inspected against the reference sample: the count, the glaze, the rims, the fit and the spelling.
Packing
Each piece goes into its place in the chest, the chest into its fabric cover, and the cover into protective outer packaging.
Read about our craft
An artisan’s hands lifting a plate from a bucket of cobalt glaze, the glaze sheeting off its rim
Footage of the making will appear here as production begins. Concept visualisation.

How a commission works

From the first message to the first evening at your table, one named person looks after your order.

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  1. A sketchbook of plate profiles beside glaze test tiles, lining swatches, a brass ruler and a blue-glazed plate

    Consult

    We talk on WhatsApp or by video about the occasion, your table, your guests and your budget.

    Concept visualisation.

  2. A whole NEELĀ collection laid out piece by piece in a grid on ivory linen beside the walnut chest

    Compose

    We send a written proposal with the exact pieces, the personalization, the price and the delivery window.

    Concept visualisation.

  3. A blank bronze plate waiting to be engraved, on a walnut desk beside a burin and a blue-glazed bowl

    Approve

    You approve every detail in writing, including the engraving proof, and pay the first stage.

    Concept visualisation.

  4. White-gloved hands holding a blue-glazed plate up to the window light, a second plate and a linen cloth on the table

    Create

    Your collection is made, finished and inspected, and we send you updates as it progresses.

    Concept visualisation.

  5. A set delivered in its walnut chest, wrapped in a tailored ivory canvas cover tied with navy ribbon, on a marble console beside a carved door, jasmine in a brass bowl

    Deliver

    We bring your set to your door in its walnut chest, and remain your contact for care and replacement pieces.

    Concept visualisation.

Hands passing a bowl of rice across a family table laid with blue-glazed plates, fish curry, dal and brass glasses

A private appointment

Speak with us on WhatsApp or by video before you choose anything. We listen, answer what matters to you, and prepare a written proposal.

WhatsApp concierge
+880 1XXX-XXXXXX
Email
concierge@bhoj.example
Hours
Sat–Thu, 10:00–19:00 (Dhaka)
We reply
Within one working day
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