People / Saym Hussain
Saym Hussain is a London‑based designer from Glasgow whose work moves between research and making, exploring how objects and contexts shape each other. Grounded in material investigation and social inquiry, his studio practice uses objects to surface cultural, social, and political narratives in response to contemporary crises. He is a graduate from the Royal College of Art in MA Design Products (2025) — supported by the Industrial Design Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and the Logitech Scholarship for Diversity in Art & Design. Also a graduate from Imperial College London in MEng Design Engineering (2021).
A Seat at the Table: Chair 31
The Stack Stool
Stacked high in local diasporic markets, and found in homes and restaurants, handis carry cultural memory and entangled histories that mark British South Asian experiences.
‘The Stack Stool’ repurposes a handi from Shepherd’s Bush into a stool. Aluminium handis are made from British scrap metal exported to Pakistan to be formed into pots and returned to the UK. In using this material, the stool embodies experiences of ‘in-betweenness’, extending aesthetic codes from the sub-continent through a uniquely British and diasporic lens whilst interrogating place and belonging in contemporary Britain.