BANGKOK, THAILAND

WOOD: SOFT MAPLE AND CHERRY

Kamonwan Mungnatee (Mew) established her Budd design studio in Bangkok, Thailand in 2019. The Thai designer graduated from the industrial design course at King’s Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang’s (KMITL) in 2019. Her projects range from small objects to decorative items and furniture design, inspired by the idea of user context and everyday objects. Her work is process-based and focused on creative thinking in terms of materials, technique and form.

Mungnatee was keen to create a product rooted in a sense of place and that users could connect with emotionally. The inspiration for her Corners lamp came from Thailand’s vernacular architecture. ‘I was attracted to the structure at the base of the pagodas that you find in our country, which is a technique of creating “indented corners” – the corners of a rectangular structure are broken up into multiple recessed corners,’ she explains.