Handi Chair by Saym Hussain
Handi Chair by Saym Hussain
The Handi Chair, created by Saym Hussain, a London-based designer from Glasgow, reworks aluminium handis from London's vibrant Shepherd’s Bush Market. Each piece embodies a materially diasporic journey: British scrap metal travels to Pakistan to be made into pots, then returns to the UK to be sold in local markets.
Aluminium, stickers, textile.
Light silver (aluminium colour)
65 x 65 x 72 cm
10,25 Kg
Care: wipe with acetone to remove any dirt and maintain shine. Take care with hard items that may scratch the surface finish.
Made in the UK
This chair is made to order with an estimated production time of 12 weeks.
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Description
Description
The Handi Chair reworks aluminium handis from Shepherd’s Bush Market in London. Each piece embodies a materially diasporic journey: British scrap metal travels to Pakistan to be made into pots, then returns to the UK to be sold in local markets. The chair incorporates a red-checked terry towel into its form, simultaneously materialising collective cooking practices and the economic stories of the diasporic and working-class intersections in the UK. Part of the broader ‘Pot Dialogics’ artistic project, the Handi Chair is used in filmed dialogues with British South Asians as a site of cultural negotiation. Its surface gathers stickers of their stories, becoming a living archive of migration, memory, and belonging.
Aluminium, stickers, textile.
Light silver (aluminium colour)
65 x 65 x 72 cm
10,25 Kg
Care: wipe with acetone to remove any dirt and maintain shine. Take care with hard items that may scratch the surface finish.
Made in the UK
This chair is made to order with an estimated production time of 12 weeks.
About The Designer
About The Designer
Saym Hussain is a London-based designer from Glasgow whose work moves between research and making, exploring how objects and contexts shape each other. Grounded in material investigation and social inquiry, his practice works with everyday objects to interrogate the histories they come from whilst surfacing social, political, and cultural narratives, reimagining aesthetic and diasporic codes in contemporary design. His work is situated within his British South Asian experience, translating personal references into sites of conversation and renewal. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in MA Design Products (2025), where he was a fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and Logitech Scholar, he has since established his studio practice in London, focused on narrative and locally situated objects.
Shipping
Shipping
This chair is made to order with an estimated production time of 12 weeks.
It will be shipped from the UK.
UK: £35
EU: £45
Global: email us at madpeople@madnesses.com
