Lingappan, 47, is native from a small village in the outskirts of Puducherry, where he still lives with his family. He learned wood work and carving while he was 14, was employed until 1994 in a workshop, before starting its own project. He now employs an assistant and has developed a lovely collection of incense holders, candle holders, made of a local variety of oak wood and serpentine stone. Lingappan's collection is exhibited in our wood catalogue, Ref. AGL.
