A workshop before a brand

Giovanni began in 2015, when Prateek Kapoor tried to furnish his own home and found what most people find: limited options, vague promises, missed deliveries and nobody accountable for the piece at the end of it.

So the family built a workshop. Not a showroom with a factory somewhere behind it — a working floor in Bhopal where timber is racked, cut, carved, polished and upholstered under one roof, now more than 43,500 square feet of it.

We work as a studio, not a store. There is no warehouse of stock — you bring a room, a measurement, a way of living, and we build what belongs in it. Every commission gets a dedicated manager and an itemised quotation naming the wood, the foam, the finish and the delivery date.

The furniture went on to furnish the family’s own places — Giovanni Village on the edge of Ratapani, Giovanni House and Suites in the city — and hotels well beyond them, including the Courtyard by Marriott in Bhopal. The stays are our portfolio; the workshop is the reason they feel the way they do.