Anna Bakhlina

Bio

Anna Bakhlina is an architect and designer based in Paris, working across architecture, interiors, and object design. She holds a Master's degree in Architecture from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and has worked across Japan, India, and France, at SANAA in Tokyo, Naqshbandi Studio in India, and Carbondale in Paris.

In 2025, she founded AHHA, an object design and research practice extending her architectural thinking into sculptural objects. Her furniture work includes the Perle coffee table for BUDRI's Charmé collection, developed as part of Carbondale Studio, shown at Milan Design Week 2025. The first AHHA series was exhibited at the Musée de Muravyov-Apostol, Moscow, as part of the curated TrynTrava exhibition, and was on display at Lampa educational and entertainment laboratory in Paris.
 

Statement

The collection reinterprets banal, everyday objects such as the pot. This collection reinterprets banal, everyday objects such as the pot. Rather than reproducing these familiar typologies, the pieces introduce controlled distortions in proportion, alignment, and material perception, challenging the expected relationship between weight and form.

Objects that traditionally imply mass and stability are translated into lightweight, visually unstable structures. The collection consists of three groups: Field, Balance, and Gravity. The pieces generate spatial interactions, tension, orientation, and void, forming a micro-architectural landscape at the scale of the table.

Produced through 3D printing and subsequently reworked by hand, each piece combines geometric precision with surface irregularity. This process allows the objects to shift from mechanical output towards the object with a sense of presence.
 

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