WE'VE - Artisan Story - Mahsa Vanaki
Channel: we've built
Date: 2013-11-13

WE'VE is a e-commerce community connecting artisans, designers, and buyers from around the world.

Digital technology meets tangible, handcrafted design with Mahsa Vanaki's innovative mash-up of digital fabrication, architecture and fashion. Mahsa Vanaki is a trained architect who studied in her native Iran as well as in the United States, and her designs represent Vanaki's curiosity and desire to transform digital forms into physical objects, such as handbags, lighting, and architectural installations. Her tools are simple: a lasercutter and her laser-sharp curiosity and eye for design; and the end result is decidedly modern -- a structural aesthetic with a sophisticated style. Vanaki combines her love of texture and textiles, including wool felt and recycled scrap leather, her interest in complex forms and her willingness to experiment and explore. Each piece feels like a new discovery and a unique piece of functional art.