KAIA

KAIA Editions is a British-German design studio founded in 2003 and led by Manuela Szewald, working across lighting, objets d’art and installations. Its language is built on reduction, elemental form and the honesty of construction: surfaces are refined without erasing the mark of the hand, and screws, joints and connections stay visible as part of the design.

The studio runs its own atelier in the Bavarian countryside near Munich, at Haag an der Amper, and collaborates with small artisanal workshops across Europe, with showrooms in London and New York and a dealer network that includes Vienna, Paris, Copenhagen and Rome. Szewald came to design from law and political science, shaped by the Vienna Secession and by Carlo Scarpa’s approach to architecture.