Ultramar Studio

Ultramar is a furniture and object design studio built around a single idea: a journey through the narratives and folklore of the wide world beyond the sea. The name comes from the Latin ultra and mare, meaning “beyond the sea” or “overseas”, and it names the studio founded in 2023 by Ewan Lamm, a Hong Kong-British designer working on the meeting of Eastern and Western cultures.

Lamm graduated in product design from Ravensbourne University London in 2018, learned furniture fabrication at a retail interior agency and then spent years as studio designer to Lara Bohinc before opening his own practice. Pieces such as the Citadel lighting collection, the Torii bench and the Sentry light sculpture translate tales from distant places into furniture and objects, and have been featured in Elle Decoration UK and Dezeen.