Atelier Hahn

CV

2026-05-27T22:46:44.993415735Z

A short CV. The longer version is available on request.

Practice

Atelier Hahn — Lisbon, 2021–present Founded 2021. Furniture, lighting, and small-object commissions for private clients and small product collaborations with European manufacturers. Selected work: Tobias Lounge (2024), Bramble Side Table (2024), Pendel for Frida Kaffebar (2023), Klippe (2023).

Studio Bjørn Johanson — Stockholm, 2018–2021 Senior designer. Worked on furniture and product collaborations for Källemo, Massproductions, and a small handful of independent makers. Day-to-day model-making, production drawings, and supplier liaison during the manufacturing handoff.

Konstfack — Stockholm, 2015–2017 Assistant in the wood and metal workshops while studying.

Education

MA Industrial Design — Konstfack, Stockholm, 2017 Thesis: “On Repair.” A study of objects designed for service over their lifetime, including three furniture prototypes and a written component on the economics of small-batch repair networks.

BFA Furniture Design — Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies, Linköping University, 2014

Exhibitions

Casa Ladeira, Lisbon — 2024 Solo presentation. Tobias Lounge, Bramble Side Table, and a small collection of unreleased lighting prototypes.

Stockholm Furniture Fair, Greenhouse section — 2017 Three thesis pieces. Awarded Greenhouse “best in show” jury mention.

MISC Gallery, Copenhagen — 2019 Group exhibition: “Quiet Things.” Two pieces from the Studio Bjørn Johanson collaboration with Massproductions.

Writing

“On Repair” — Form Magazine (Sweden), Issue 318, 2017 Excerpt from the thesis. PDF available on request.

“Material as method” — Disegno, online, 2023 Short essay on the studio’s approach to material selection and sourcing relationships.

Languages

Swedish (native), English (fluent), Portuguese (working), French (reading).

Contact

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Email is the best way to reach the studio. studio@atelierhahn.example

I usually reply within a couple of days. If you don’t hear back within a week, please send a follow-up — it almost always means the first one is buried, not ignored.

What’s useful in a first email

A sketch of the brief. A paragraph is fine. The shape of the thing, what it’s for, where it goes, who uses it. Doesn’t need to be exhaustive.
Your timeline. Even “ideally before next summer” or “no rush” helps.
Budget range. Helpful for both of us; saves a long conversation that turns out not to fit.
Where you are. Most commissions are based in Portugal or shipped from Portugal; international is doable but adds time and freight cost.

For press inquiries, please mention the publication and deadline in the subject line. The studio’s high-res image library is available on request.

Studio

The studio is at Rua dos Sapateiros 84, Lisbon. Visits by appointment — please email ahead, the door isn’t always staffed.

Elsewhere

The footer of this site has links to the studio’s Instagram, Are.na, and a low-traffic newsletter (one or two issues a year, usually when something new ships).

About

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Atelier Hahn is the studio of Mira Hahn, an industrial designer trained in Stockholm and based in Lisbon since 2021. The studio takes on a small number of furniture and product commissions each year, plus occasional short-run product collaborations with European manufacturers.

Mira’s work tends toward considered material choices — solid hardwoods where they earn their weight, hand-spun aluminum and brass where they don’t, leather and canvas where a textile says it best. The studio doesn’t do anything synthetic, and tries hard not to specify anything that won’t be repairable in twenty years.

Practice

Most projects start with a long conversation about what the object is for — not a brief but a sketch of how a person will live with the thing. The studio works in pencil and 1:1 mockups for as long as it takes; CAD comes in once the form is settled.

Commissions are typically 4–10 month timelines depending on the manufacturing involved. Shorter when the brief is small and the material is well-understood; longer for pieces that need new tooling or a new fabricator.

Contact

For commissions, collaborations, or anything in between: studio@atelierhahn.example.

The studio is at Rua dos Sapateiros 84, Lisbon. Visits by appointment.

Tobias Lounge

2024-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Tobias Lounge began as a request for a chair “to read a long book in.” The client wanted something that committed to a posture — not a do-everything armchair — and was willing to give up versatility for the right one.

We landed on a low, slightly reclined sling: deep enough to sink into without being a sofa about it, and short-armed so a forearm could rest on a knee while turning a page.

Construction

The frame is a single continuous loop of steam-bent European ash, pinned at the back where the curve meets itself. The sling is a double-layer of 12 oz duck canvas, finished with hand-rolled hems and brass grommets that take the strain off the fabric.

There is no hardware visible from the user-facing side of the chair. Brass pins are countersunk into the ash and capped with matching wood plugs; the sling threads through internal channels routed into the frame.

Production

Bent in batches of three at a small steam-bending shop outside Aveiro. Sling sewn by a local upholsterer who’s done the studio’s textile work since 2022. Final finish — Danish oil followed by a light wax — done in the studio. Each chair takes about three weeks from rough lumber to crate.

The piece is not in production. The client owns the design; a small number of additional units may be made on commission.

Bramble Side Table

2024-04-08T00:00:00Z

A side table that fits beside a chair, not in front of it — the top extends forward on a cantilever so a cup of coffee can land where the user’s hand naturally drops, instead of three centimetres past the armrest where most side tables put it.

Form

The base is a single rectangular block of solid oak — 32 cm tall, 18 × 22 cm in plan. The top is a separate piece, joined to the base via a deep mortise that runs the full depth of the base block. Roughly 60% of the top overhangs; the joint geometry plus the natural weight distribution holds it without any visible fastener.

There is enough overhang to put a teapot down. There is not enough overhang to sit on, and the proportions make that obvious — the user should not be tempted to try.

Status

Two prototypes made in the studio in spring 2024. The cantilever geometry has been worked out and proven; the studio is talking with a couple of small furniture makers about a short production run. Available on commission in the meantime.

Disegno · A Lisbon Studio Slows Down

2024-03-15T00:00:00Z

“The chair will outlast me. That’s the only metric that matters.”

A long-form profile of the studio in Disegno‘s spring 2024 print issue. Photography by Magda Veiga. The piece centres on the Tobias Lounge commission and the studio’s approach to working with a single private client over a 10-month timeline.

Read on Disegno →

Pendel

2023-11-20T00:00:00Z

Frida Kaffebar wanted a pendant that would read at distance through the windows of their three Stockholm locations — bright enough to be visible from the street at dusk, restrained enough not to compete with the rest of the room.

The brief was specific: a 36 cm spun-aluminum shade with a deep curve inside and a flat exterior, in two finishes (satin and lightly hammered). The cord had to be linen-wrapped because Frida’s interior designer hated rubber cable.

Manufacturing

Spun by a third-generation aluminum spinner outside Helsingborg who does most of his work for the kitchenware industry. The first batch took three rounds of mock-up to land the curve — the spinning process favors gentle radii, and the original drawing asked for a sharper transition than the metal wanted to give.

Cord assembled and wired in the studio. Brass cord-grips and ceiling canopies are off-the-shelf; the studio specs them rather than re-tooling for an in-house equivalent that would cost three times as much without a meaningful improvement.

Forty units in the first run; another sixty for a second café earlier this year. Available through Frida’s online shop in limited quantity.

Wallpaper* · Five emerging Iberian studios to watch

2023-11-08T00:00:00Z

A short feature in Wallpaper*‘s November 2023 print issue. The studio appears alongside four other small Iberian practices working in furniture and lighting; coverage focused on the Pendel pendant for Frida Kaffebar.

Read on Wallpaper* →

Dezeen · Pendel pendant uses spun aluminium and linen cord

2023-09-22T00:00:00Z

A product-launch piece in Dezeen covering the first run of the Pendel pendant for Frida Kaffebar. The article includes notes on the manufacturing setup with the third-generation aluminum spinner outside Helsingborg, and on Frida’s specific brief for a fixture that would be visible from the street at dusk.

Read on Dezeen →

Klippe

2023-07-12T00:00:00Z

Klippe (“cliff” in Norwegian) is a pair of brass bookends that came out of a frustration with the bookends already on the studio’s own shelves — too light, too short, and almost universally finished in something that fights with the books they hold.

Material

Each bookend is folded from a single 2 mm sheet of brass: a tall upright that meets the books, a horizontal foot that slides under them, and a small return bend at the back of the foot that gives the foot enough rigidity to take the load without flexing.

The brass is hand-rubbed with a mild patina — closer to a worn coin than a piece of jewellery. It will continue to develop with use, which the studio considers a feature.

A small piece of dense wool felt is glued to the underside of each foot, both to protect the shelf and to give the bookend a small amount of friction so it doesn’t slide forward as the books shift.

Production

The studio does the folding in-house on a small box brake; patina and felt-fitting also in-house. Available as a pair from the studio shop; lead time about two weeks at current order rate.