Feels UNREAL to see ourselves—and our Long-Haired Sconces—staring back at us from this @nytimes story! After months of squishing hemp, experiments, building and all the second-guessing that goes into making something new, it’s such gift to have this moment 🤎🤎🤎
We don’t know if we’ll ever *not* feel like fish out of water, but thanks to @lyle.gallery and @hellohuman.us for crafting an exhibition that celebrates just that. Honored to be part of OUTSIDE/IN, amongst artists and works that each feel like windows into other worlds.
Thank you @kindofanna for seeing our work and writing about it with such care, @amirbangs for this perfect photograph (with the lamp’s hair flowing into mine 🖤) and @yuvsees for assisting 🤎
@hellohuman.us@lin.tyrpien@magdalena.tyrpien@jennyhellohuman@lyle.gallery@clairebutwinick@aurora_hinz —thank you! what a dream team, what a dream start to this exhibition 🤎🤎🤎
We are (maybe crying) honored to announce the acquisition of “Mirrors for Aliens, 2023” by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art @sfmoma for their Architecture + Design Permanent Collection ❤️
Our hand polished stainless steel thalis, made as a reflection of our lived experience as ‘Non-Resident Aliens’ joins works by Shiro Kuramata, Isamu Noguchi, Donald Judd and Nathalie DePasquier in SFMOMA’s permanent collection.
To say this work was personal seems redundant, there are too many feelings around it - and we have put it all down into an emotionally charged newsletter going out tomorrow - but for now it just feels incredibly meaningful that this piece has found a permanent home at the SFMOMA, down the street from the live-work studio it was first made in, especially since permanence has felt most elusive to us. Everything else in tomorrow’s 📝 ❤️
All kinds of happy this morning, to be in ‘Woman Made: Great Women Designers’ by Jane Hall & published by Phaidon. Utharaa is one of 200 women product designers from the early twentieth century to the present day to be featured in the book 💕
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/ now available in the UK, Europe and Asia. You can order your copy at phaidon.com/womanmade #linkinbio
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We expected our first super-bloom to feel overwhelming. Instead, it just felt like comfort - something so simple, familiar and sweet.
When we got back, we made this mold for a four-petal form almost immediately, and it has stayed with us for over two years, never quite resolved.
This year, it found its way back.
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Flowers in Our Hair
Opening May 15, 5-8 pm
@kartikresearch
RSVP link in bio
On view May 13–19 / Closed Tuesdays
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📸 of Palaash with Mold by @new____note
Long-Haired Sconces, Volume 2
Last year, we introduced the Long-Haired Sconces, inspired by the soft choreography of rituals around tending to hair.
For Volume 2, we make their children. Turning toward younger formations: schoolgirl hairstyles, short crops, bouncy bobs, pigtails with ribbons.
Open Night
Friday, May 15
5–8pm
Kartik Research, New York
RSVP link in bio
On view May 13–19
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Flowers in Our Hair
soft-geometry at Kartik Research
Two new lighting series shaped by childhood, adornment, and contemporary Indian handmaking.
Open Night
Friday, May 15
5–8pm
Kartik Research, New York
On view May 13–19
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So excited for this one! Join us for the open night - RSVP link in stories! 🖤🖤🖤
Sample Sale is now live as we make space in the studio for new things next month and newer this summer 🖤 Link in today’s newsletter/ DM 🫶🏽
Photos by @new____note 📸
The Elio Lamp by @Soft.Geometry is inspired by those nostalgic frosted sugar jellies many of us remember from childhood 🍬 But the story behind it is actually a deep exploration of how light behaves in the real world.
During the pandemic, husband-and-wife design duo #SoftGeometry began experimenting with hand-cast resin in their kitchen. By letting tiny bubbles form in the material, they discovered a way to diffuse light into a soft, glowing texture—almost like stacked pieces of illuminated jelly.
The lamp’s curvy stacked silhouette is also a subtle nod to the 1926 Bibendum Chair by Eileen Gray, translating a modernist icon into a contemporary sculptural light.
Today, every Elio Lamp is still handmade by the designers themselves at home, and it comes in delicious color “flavors” like Aloe, Lychee, and Blueberry.
🛍️Visit (link in @soft.geometry ’s bio) and use code HELLOHUMAN15 for 15% off.
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