Designed objects for silence, memory, and conversation.
Handmade lighting and objects from Ahmedabad, India.
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Studio
Sāmvād is a studio for objects that hold rituals, materials, and conversations.
Each piece is handmade slowly, shaped with local artisans, and designed to live across generations.
Approach
Material-led, handmade
Made In
Ahmedabad, India
Objects
Lighting · Ceramics · Home
Ekāānt
A meditative lamp for solitude. Light, scent, and silence in one ritual object.
The Object
A porcelain lantern for quiet rituals of light, aroma, and pause. Rotates on. Dims over twenty minutes.
Ekāānt
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Step 01 · The Base
Where every composition begins.
A tiered ceramic base with a charging ring. The only fixed element in an otherwise limitless form.
Step 02 · The Bulb
Light, before the form finds it.
A slim filament bulb seated in the socket. Naked, honest, and warm.
Step 03 · The Shaft
Texture emerges.
A hand-thrown stoneware cylinder, marked with blue botanical traces.
Step 04 · The Form
Mass and presence.
A matte ovoid — smooth, weighted, deliberate. A counterpoint to the texture below it.
Step 05 · The Ring
A note of colour.
A glossy ceramic torus — a quiet comma between forms that changes everything.
Step 06 · Assembled
Your composition.
No two arrangements are the same. Infinite combinations, each one unrepeatable.
Step 07 · Illuminate
Light awakens the form.
The stoneware glows from within. No two lamps illuminate a room the same way.
Krāmā
A modular lamp shaped through progression and play.
The Base
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The Artist
Designed objects by Asthā
Asthā creates objects that live between utility, material memory, and emotional presence. Her practice explores light, tactility, ritual, and conversation through handmade designed objects.
BFA in Designed Objects · School of the Art Institute of Chicago · Now building in Ahmedabad, India.
A meditative lamp designed for a moment of solitude.
It turns on by rotating the base and begins dimming after 20 minutes, creating a quiet time-bound ritual. At the top sits a ceramic aroma diffuser, allowing the object to hold both light and scent.
Ekāānt is not simply a lamp. It is a companion for stillness — an object that marks the beginning of a pause.
The Ritual
Light and scent, in one gesture.
Rotate the base. The light comes on. A slow timer begins — twenty minutes of warmth before the lamp dims itself to nothing.
The aroma diffuser receives drops of oil. As the lamp warms, the scent rises slowly into the space.
Materials
Translucent porcelain body
Leather strap handle
Brushed aluminium collar
Stoneware ceramic aroma diffuser
Commission Ekāānt
Each Ekāānt is made to order. Handmade in Ahmedabad. Reach out to begin.
Krāmā begins as a collection of individual forms — each with its own material, texture, translucency, and character. Through stacking, rearranging, and composing, these elements become a singular object.
Unlike traditional lighting, Krāmā invites participation. The user becomes part of the design process.
The object changes as its owner changes.
Every Krāmā is unrepeatable.
The forms, finishes, and arrangements are infinite. No two people build the same lamp. The composition you create exists only for you.
Named for progression.
Krāmā comes from the Sanskrit word for progression, sequence, and unfolding through stages. The lamp is not about reaching a final form — it is about the act of arranging. The act of discovering.
"Like words becoming a sentence. Like notes becoming music. Like conversations becoming understanding."
Materials
Porcelain and stoneware ceramics
Wooden base with charging ring
Multi-textured ceramic components
Translucent and opaque elements
Compose your Krāmā
Every combination is unique. Choose your elements — the lamp you build exists only for you.
Each object begins not with a drawing, but with a conversation — with the material, with the artisan, with the ritual the object is being designed to hold. Form follows feeling.
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The hand of the craftsperson.
Every piece is shaped by skilled hands — potters in Ahmedabad, brass artisans in Moradabad, leather craftspeople in Rajkot. Slow, deliberate, deeply collaborative.
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Materials that hold memory.
Porcelain, stoneware, leather, aluminium, walnut. Each material chosen for how it ages — patina, warmth, texture. Objects that look more beautiful five years from now than today.
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Objects for generations.
Not made for a season. Made to be passed forward — from a mother to a daughter, from one home to the next. Objects that begin conversations across time.
Infinite combinations.
Every Krāmā is unrepeatable.
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Commissions, collaborations, and objects waiting to take form.
Asthā creates objects that live between utility, material memory, and emotional presence. Her practice explores light, tactility, ritual, and conversation through handmade designed objects.
Trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she completed a BFA in Designed Objects, Asthā now builds her studio practice in Ahmedabad, India — collaborating with local artisans and craftspeople across the country.
Sāmvād — meaning conversation — is both the name and the ethos. Every object is a question asked to the person who holds it.
Asthā · BFA Designed Objects School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sāmvād Studio · Ahmedabad, India @samvad.by.astha
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