Nipa Doshi was born in 1971 into a Gujarati family of Mumbai. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1997 but she soon returned to India to work with local craftspeople. After a short stay she went back to London where she met Jonathan Levien, a Scot who had recently finished his master in furniture design at the Royal College. The synergy between Nipa and Jonathan clicked immediately; in fact they set up the Doshi Levien studio in 2000 and got married.
The combination of the two cultures and creativities generated a very special, innovative design concept which unites two different yet complementary approaches to their work: while Nipa's is heavily influenced by the visual culture and materials of India, Jonathan's is rooted in industrial design.