Reading the Hallmarks of South Indian Brass
A short field guide to the maker's marks, alloy variations, and patina that distinguish 19th-century South Indian brass.
Bespoke furniture designed to your rooms, completed by antiques that carry their own history. Three generations of the same family, one workshop in Trivandrum, one considered eye.
It begins with a commission designed for your rooms, completed by antiques that carry a history. And when you want a fine piece now, a small range is ready to take home.
Our CraftTell us the room. We design and build furniture to its exact proportions, materials and light, joined by hand in our Trivandrum workshop and made to live in your home for generations.
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CuratedA working collection of period and Anglo-Indian pieces, chosen by the family eye. Each one carries its history, and finds the right place in the right home.
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In StockA small range of ready-made pieces, built to the same standard as our commissions. Take one home as it is, or use it as the starting point for a commission.
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No catalogue numbers. Every commission begins with a conversation about your home, and ends with a piece that belongs in it.
We visit or talk through your space, how you live in it, and what the room is missing.
Drawings and material samples, refined together until the piece is exactly right for the room.
Built by hand in our workshop, with joinery, timber and finish chosen to last generations.
Set in your home, sitting as though it had always been meant to stand there.
Established 1949 · Trivandrum
For three generations, Leen's has worked from a single showroom on a quiet side-street in Trivandrum, designing furniture and gathering antiques under one roof, chosen by one family. Every piece passes the family eye before it passes anyone else's.
Read the Heritage StoryA short field guide to the maker's marks, alloy variations, and patina that distinguish 19th-century South Indian brass.
Why we leave the patina, the surface, and most of the history exactly where it was found.
Notes from a private acquisition: ledgers, miniatures, a writing desk that turned out to be Anglo-Indian.
Occasional notes from the showroom: new acquisitions, our thinking on restoration, and objects worth knowing about. No more than once a month.