WHAT IS THE MEANING BEHIND THE NAME "KNARRATIVE 576"?

The K in KNARRATIVE is silent, a quiet symbol of my vision and philosophy for the brand. It stands for my belief in individuality, intuition, and the unseen narrative that shapes all creative work.

The number 576 carries a story from my past: it was the stock number I was assigned in boarding school. A symbol of uniformity, through order and discipline, our identities were tallied to digits, a part of an endless assembly line.

But through this brand, I have tried to reclaim and redefine that number.

Today, 576 stands for the rejection of the ordinary and an adoption of the deeply personal. It’s a reminder that every person holds a story of their own, and every handcrafted object carries a lineage of human touch: from the designer who envisions it, to the maker who shapes it, to the person who lives with it.

Each piece by KNARRATIVE 576 is a continuation of that belief: that design is not just what we see, but what we feel and remember.

-Krsnam Bhatia

Founder

Our KNARRATIVE

KNARRATIVE 576 is a multidisciplinary design house that explores the relationship between form, material, and meaning.

We create furniture, lighting, and objects that live between the realms of art and function, designed to evoke emotion, invite interaction, and carry quiet stories within their form.

Our philosophy is rooted in our first collection, Living Systems: a belief that design, much like nature, is never static. It grows, decays, transforms, and adapts. Each piece exists in that balance between the organic and the structured, the raw and the refined, and should be embraced for its natural quality.

From cast metal and carved wood to chiselled stone and blown glass, each object holds subtle traces of the human hand and the maker’s intent.

ARTISTIC DIRECTION

I approach design with the belief that objects are living systems, shaped by time, touch, and the people who inhabit them. My work attempts to explore the tension between the organic and the monolithic. Each piece starts as a thought about balance: how something structured can start to feel alive.

Each object that leaves the studio carries more than its form:

It carries the memory of the hands that made it, the mark of the process that shaped it.

It embodies the material's aspiration: what it desires to become, the spaces it longs to inhabit, and the imagination it hopes to inspire.