Swetha Vegasana

Swetha Vegasana is the founder of Intent Made, the design-build furniture studio she established in Hyderabad in 2020. An architect by training, she took a master’s at the Architectural Association in London, where she worked with Arup engineers on the Woodchip Barn, a truss built from tree forks joined through 3D scanning and robotic milling.

That experience of turning an awkward waste material into structure shaped the studio’s method: material exploration first, then prototyping, then handcraft. Intent Made’s pieces, from the Wave Bench shown at Isola Design Festival to marquetry cabinets and mirrors, are developed with Indian artisans and sold as bespoke furniture that keeps the grain, the joint and the trace of the hand.