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A selection of some of my personal and professional work over the last eight years in the wooden furniture and product space. 

Thesis reimagined

Personal, 2017/2026

A reworked version of my undergraduate thesis - an adaptive reuse project to revive the spaces under a train line in the city of Chennai, India. First published in 2017, I reworked the project while applying for a Master's program to Malmo University. 

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Furniture | Drafting table/easel

Personal, 2024

A drafting table that converts to an easel designed for my best friend - an architect and artist. The table was designed to be completely dismantled if required, and individual components can be reused in different ways. The top is adjustable, working as a desk, a drafting table or an easel at varying angles of comfort based on the user's requirements. 

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Lighting | Squiggle

Personal, 2021

A minimal floor lamp designed to be a good product while also being affordable. The design was kept intentionally simple, with an added element of adjustability that fits it into any space. 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. 

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Product | Custom sunglasses

Personal, 2021

These sunglasses were a fun design exercise I did with the help of Samvit Blass and his workshop LightFish. 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
 

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© 2023 by Mokshaa Kuttayya

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