About Us

Schröey & Mouser is a design studio in New Delhi. We make objects for the table that are not quite behaving themselves.

The name comes from Schrödinger and his cat, the thought experiment where a thing is two contradictory things at once until somebody looks at it. That is more or less our brief. A wine goblet with a mouth is a wine goblet and a face, and it stays both until you decide which one you are holding. A plate shaped like a pineapple is dinnerware pretending to be fruit. Everything we make is a useful object doing an impression of something else, and the joke only works if the object is genuinely good at its job.

So the pieces are made to be used. Slip-cast for a consistent form, then painted and finished by hand, which is why two glasses in a set match in shape and differ in everything else. They go in the dishwasher and the microwave. We would rather they lived on your table than behind glass.

We work inside old traditions, figural majolica and hand-painted tableware among them, and take them somewhere stranger than where we found them. Everything is drawn in our own studio and made here in India, by people we know and pay directly.

We are small and we intend to stay that way for a while. New pieces arrive in short runs, patterns retire, and nothing is made in quantities that would require us to stop caring.