Select projects
A selection of some of my personal and professional work over the last three years in the wooden furniture and product space.
Furniture | The Autumn Bar Cart
For Gunava Design, 2021
A double purpose bar/tea cart that is easy to move and functional. I worked on the design of this piece with the brief from my principal designer for it to be sleek and to incorporate some functional details into the structure. The final design features a removable tray and a wine glass holder integrated with the design.
Lighting | Button
Personal, 2021
The design process for this piece started as travel resumed post pandemic. I realised that not every hotel had table lamps conveniently located next to you to turn off right before you sleep. The quality of light is also different in each hotel, and for someone like me who finds it hard to sleep in a new place, I was thinking it would be comforting to have a lamp whose light I was used to.
The brief in my head was for the lamp to be as small as possible, and to have a dynamic element so that there was control over the amount of light diffused. It also needed to be something that worked as an accessory when off.
Furniture | The Incense seaters
For Bram Woodcrafting Studio, 2019
Bram Woodcrafting Studio was given free reign to develop a living room set for a furniture manufacturer. The design team with our Founder Bram decided to go the Scandinavian route. I was in charge of the seaters while a colleague designed a matching coffee table.
The design was done with structural verifications and inputs from Bram. The idea was to keep it very intentionally heavy- a low seater that emphasizes the beauty of the grains in White Oak. A large cushion brings the height of the seater out of the uncomfortable zone while the wood is still kept low.
Lighting | Squiggle
Personal, 2021
A minimal floor lamp, the idea for this piece came about when I was thinking of the interiors of a house I was designing. An important factor was the compactness- It needed to fit in a tight corner but still be a piece that was visually impactful. I also wanted it to be an economical product that reflected the fact that good design can also be affordable. The final design is essentially only two pieces of bent metal joined together with a modified bearing that allows it to rotate and the user to decide how they want it in their space.
Product | Custom sunglasses
Personal, 2021
These sunglasses were a fun design exercise I did with the help of Samvit Blass and his workshop LightFish. It came about due to a lack of options for sunglasses that suited my face (my head is quite small and most of the commercially available sunglasses look disproportionate on me.)
I designed a product that would use layers of wood and brass to create a strong frame, and a custom hinge in brass composed of three individual layers.