Maha Alavi is a Canadian industrial designer whose practice moves between Toronto and Tokyo. With a background in philosophy and psychology, her work explores the relationship between objects, people and the spaces they inhabit, drawing on travel, light, proportion and material.
Working across hardware, furniture and homewares, Alavi creates intuitive, tactile forms through hands-on exploration. Her cast metal pieces are hand formed and finished in a family-run foundry in Northern India, with recycled metals and small-batch production forming an important part of the studio’s approach.
