Handi Low Table by Saym Hussain

The Handi Low Table, reworks a single aluminium handi from Shepherd’s Bush Market, extending a language of low seating commonly found in South Asia through a uniquely diasporic lens. Part of the broader ‘Pot Dialogics’ artistic project, the 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. Carefully articulating its subtle curvature, concavity, and flares, the piece evokes architectural and Harappan aesthetic forms, revealing how these forms continue through diasporas into everyday material cultures in the UK.

Aluminium

Light silver (aluminium colour)

52 x 52 x 32 cm

3.25 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 table is made to order with an estimated production time of 12 weeks.

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.

This table 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