We work with what the forest offers—timber from dead or fallen trees, never live-cut. Every part is used with care, from root to branch. Our joinery is nail-free, handcrafted, and finished with natural oils. Each piece carries the story of the forest and the hands that shaped it.

Born in the wake of a storm, Arborist India blends traditional tree-climbing wisdom with modern arboriculture to care for India’s trees—safely, ethically, and expertly

Cradle to Cradle

At Dry Fall, every piece of work is an ode a what we harvest from forests of Auroville and the community guided by conscious living that nurtured it.

Emboding a cradle-to-cradle virtue, all timber is sustainably harvested from dead and dying trees to give them a second life. For decades, the workshop had been operating under Solar power and ground water pumped through windmills. Every part of the tree from the trunk, branches and root stumps find its suitable expression in the work. The waste is composted for the soil and timber less suitable for construction is provided as firewood to local units in Auroville.

Process to Product

We value time, time to create, grow, innovate in the Aurovillian spirit and the way of nature. We explore designs that feature the integrity and elegance of the natural form making every furniture unique and are hand crafted to the needs of the environment inhabited as seen in our bespoke and live edge collections. The furnitures are built without the use of nails but with traditional and experimental joinery techniques and finished with natural and non-toxic oil and wax exhibiting a quality that was perfected over years.

Tales over Time

The roots of ’Dry Fall’ trace back to the early 80’s, a nascent time of Samriddhi, one of the forests in Auroville’s Green Belt. It grew out of a necessity to create basic food cupboards under simple thatched roof structures to store food safely from the wildlife. A massive afforestation undertaking in the early 70s, in the then barren plateau of Auroville resulted in the Dry Tropical Evergreen Forests (DTEF) of the Green Belt. Along with some indigenous species, some exotic species, like for instance the Australian ‘Work Tree’ (Mother’s name for Acacia auriculiformis) were planted which has adapted so well and has served as one of the primary types of timber used. One of the early structures erected was a Cretan Sailcloth Wooden Windmill to pump water from the Borewell for which a small workshop was built. All the processing of the timber such as drilling, cutting, etc was done locally and manually at the workshop. The 12m high structure and the mechanism of the windmill was built out of wood sourced from Pondicherry as long and straight timber was required. Over time, as the people from the communities nearby started to build their abode, there was a need to provide more furniture and build structures and thus our team which began with one carpenter grew in strength. By early 90’s, Dry Fall’s Forest Carpentry had 20 employees, carpenters, masons and helpers and had built few houses, mostly in the Green Belt. In 2000, we were a company with nearly 40 employees, all of them well trained and seasoned over year’s of experience. Since then, we are progressing our scope to provide a holistic range of services from tree care to construction looking to collaborate with like-minded individuals across disciplines.