Uma Objects

Uma Objects is a furniture brand based in Torbalı, outside İzmir, and it exists because of a factory: Polkima Moulded Composites, the Turkish manufacturer behind it, has more than 35 years of experience moulding fibreglass and composite parts. Rather than hide that industrial origin, Uma turns it into a design language of one-piece shells, seamless curves and colours that hold up outdoors.

The studio develops collections with outside designers, most visibly the T4 series with London practice Holloway Li, whose benches and tables borrow the sandwich construction of a surfboard, and seating such as the Big Red. A blue fibreglass couch of theirs appeared at Alcova during Milan Design Week 2024, the pieces are made to order for hospitality and residential projects and sold through stockists in Europe, Asia and the Americas.