Coiled lighting
Meera Devi
Assam, India · 27 years at the bench
Learned to coil from her grandmother at nine. Her shades take nine hours each and never repeat exactly.
The makers
42 families. One material.
We don't run a factory. We work directly with independent workshops, pay their asking price, and put their name on every label. Here are four of them.
Steam-bent furniture
Kenji Aoki
Kyoto, Japan · 34 years at the bench
Bends structural bamboo without a single screw. Releases only nine chairs a month.
Twill basketry
Sri Wahyuni
Bali, Indonesia · 19 years at the bench
Leads a cooperative of eleven weavers whose pattern has passed through four generations.
Cold-pressed boards
Thanh Pham
Hue, Vietnam · 22 years at the bench
Obsessive about culm age — he will reject a whole harvest if the fibre density is off.