How Modus & Mood works

Three kettles. One Diwali gift. And a family group chat with twelve opinions.

There's a simpler way to settle it.

On Modus & Mood, tap the heart on the pieces you're torn between.

Then open your wishlist, tap "Can't decide? Ask someone", tick two to four pieces, and get one link.

Send it on WhatsApp. Whoever opens it simply taps "This one". No sign-up. Nothing to type.

Open the same link and you see every vote as it lands, and which piece is leading. Then add the favourite to your tote in one tap.

Use it all festive season. The Diwali gift. The holiday outfit your travel group has to agree on. The plates for your guest table.

Your link stays open for 14 days. Enough time for even the slowest voter in the family.

Modus & Mood. Decide together.

Buying a gift should feel good. It's the bits around it that get awkward.

Not sure what they'd like? Open the Gift finder. Answer five quick questions about them, then pick a budget. It works out their mood, and picks three pieces that suit them.

Now, the awkward bits. In your tote, switch on "Is this a gift?" Add a note, and we print it on a card. We leave the invoice out of the parcel, so the price never shows. The note is free.

Want it wrapped? Add gift wrap for ₹350.

Then at checkout, enter their address as the delivery address. Delivery is free, with no minimum.

Modus & Mood. Send it straight to them.

A birthday. An anniversary. A housewarming. The dates that matter have a way of sneaking up on you.

On Modus & Mood, tap "Remind me before a date". You'll find it on our Gifting page.

Pick the occasion: a birthday, an anniversary, a housewarming, a festival, or anything else. Add a nickname, like Mum. We never ask for their details.

Set the day and the month, then leave your email or mobile number.

Ten days before the date, a reminder lands, with a few gift ideas. On WhatsApp if you gave a number, or by email.

Then one more nudge, four days before.

Tick "Remind me every year", and birthdays and anniversaries come round again on their own.

Save the dates that matter, once. Modus & Mood. Never forget a date.

How big is it, really? It's the question every product photo leaves open.

Photos fill the frame, so a planter and a mug can look the same size.

So on many of our product pages, tap "See it to scale". You get a line drawing at true scale, next to something you know: an open hand, a dinner plate, a sheet of A4, a dining chair.

The Second Cup mug: 14.5 cm tall, beside a hand. The giraffe planter: 26 cm, almost as tall as a sheet of A4. The seashell wind chime: 65 cm, against a dining chair.

The outline shows the size, not the exact form. For mugs and cups, you also see how much they hold.

Modus & Mood. No more guessing.

Look closely at this elephant. The pattern isn't painted on.

Nerikomi is a Japanese ceramic technique. Coloured clays are stacked in layers, and pressed into a block. The block is sliced, and every slice carries the pattern right through it.

The slices are joined, and shaped by hand into the piece. So the pattern runs through the body of the clay, not just the surface. Check the unglazed foot or the inside, and it's there too.

And because the block changes shape with every cut, no two pieces can ever be exactly the same.

Our nerikomi planters, figurines, bowls, bells and wind chimes are made by hand in India.

Modus & Mood. One of a kind, all the way through.

Under each piece on our site, there's a row called "Pairs well with". So how do we pick it?

Every piece becomes a point. Its colours, materials, mood, and the words that describe it decide where it sits. Pieces with a similar style land close together.

But two mugs don't make a pair. So a match has to come from a category that complements it, like a planter and a plant stake.

Then we add what people actually buy together, measured against chance, so best sellers don't crowd out everything else.

Style, fit, and bought together. Every piece is scored against every other, every day. Each piece keeps its best six, and the row rotates, so the three you see are always three different kinds.

Modus & Mood. Suggestions from data, not a sales push.

Four moods run through everything we make. Curator. Social. Sanctuary. Ritual.

Curator is for the things your eye chooses first. Social, for plans, people, and staying a little longer. Sanctuary, for quiet corners and nowhere to rush. Ritual, for the everyday things worth making special.

Not sure which one is you? Take the quiz. Five questions, about twenty seconds. Your ideal evening. What's on your table. Your shelf. Your weekend morning. The colours you reach for.

Every answer leans towards one mood. Count them up, and the strongest is yours, sometimes with a little of a second.

Then you get six pieces picked for your mood. No sign-up, nothing to type.

Tap "Find your mood" on our home page. Modus & Mood. Shop by mood.

Found the one, and it's sold out? Don't keep checking back.

Tap "Notify me". Leave your email, or a 10-digit mobile number. When it's back, we tell you once. By email, or on WhatsApp if you gave a number. No account needed. Your request stays open for up to 90 days.

And the pieces you're not ready to buy yet? Tap the heart, and they wait in your wishlist. No account needed for that either.

Sign in, and your wishlist and your tote follow you to any phone or computer you sign in on. Save on your phone on the way home. Pick up on your laptop after dinner.

Modus & Mood. Nothing you love gets lost.