Studio
HIKARI - hYDERABAD, India
Why we exist
I founded Hikari because I kept noticing what light does to a room.
That observation became a question: could furniture work the same way? Not by demanding attention, but by rewarding it.
Hikari is my attempt at an answer. We design through subtraction removing what is decorative, keeping what is essential. As George Nakashima says, "Simplicity is not emptiness — it is the removal of everything that does not belong."
That materials have a voice, and that our job is to listen before we shape. Hikari is my way of working against speed and excess. We release only a handful of objects at a time, each the result of close collaboration with craftsmen who share a belief in care over output.
Roots and approach
The studio's approach begins with subtraction, not minimalism pursued for its own sake, but honesty arrived at through discipline. To remove what is decorative is not restraint. It is clarity. What remains is the piece as it needs to be: no more, no less.
Materials are not treated as surface. Grain, joinery, the quiet evidence of the maker's hand, these are not irregularities to be resolved. They are the work itself, made visible. A piece that hides its process hides its meaning.