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Clay. Craft. Design.

Selected Works

Ceramics for spaces, objects & light, 2026

“Is this possible in clay?”

It’s a question we get asked often.

Luckily, that’s exactly what drives us too.

At Pravaha, we’re interested in testing what clay can do, across form, scale, surface and function.

The result? Lighting, objects and elements designed for the spaces they inhabit.

Pendant light with a rounded ceramic shade glowing warmly

Selected works · tap a project to open it

Octopus Chandelier

Sculptural ceramic lighting

Developed for Design Hex

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Close-up of the green glazed ceramic octopus tentacles holding crystal bulbs

The challenge wasn’t making an octopus in clay.

It was making one work as a chandelier.

Dimensions

W 5′6″ approx. · H 2′ approx.

Ceramic elements — Pravaha

Fabrication + installation — Prabhuti Vadaiya

Glazed on every side

During firing, a glazed surface cannot rest directly on the kiln shelf, it would fuse to it.

So we developed a custom stilting system using Kanthal-wire contact points, allowing the sculptural forms to be fully glazed and safely fired.

Grey clay tentacle pieces laid out on a wooden workbench

Clay tentacle with hand-pressed suckers before firing

Green glazed tentacle pieces after firing

Rune Pendant

Large-scale Ceramic Pendant

Developed for Muse LAB

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28 kg.

Wheel-thrown.

In one piece.

Can something this heavy really hang from a ceiling?

If a ceiling can hold a swing, why not a light?

Dimensions

W: 24 in · H: 13 in

Ceramic design + making — Pravaha

Suspension hardware — NamePlaceAnimalThing

A person seated on a stool wearing the large cream Rune pendant like a lampshade

A surface built one line at a time.

The Rune texture is carved into the clay by hand, while the form is still workable.

Each line follows the profile of the pendant, turning a single wheel-thrown form into a deeply tactile surface.

Part of Pravaha’s Rune series, the texture was developed to move across objects, lighting and scale.

Potter shaping a large tiered clay form on the wheel in the studio

Hands carving vertical lines into the tiered clay pendant

Bedroom with a coral ceramic flower lamp on a curving brass arm beside the bed

Floral Bedside Lamp

Sculptural ceramic lighting

Developed for Design Hex

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Large coral and cream ceramic flower, shown close up

Making it bigger was easy

Keeping it delicate wasn’t.

At 18 inches across, the challenge was preserving the softness and movement of a flower at scale.

Dimensions

W: 18 in · H: 7 in

Ceramic design + making — Pravaha

Fabrication + installation — Prabhuti Vadaiya

12 full-scale flowers.

2 made it to site.

At this scale, there was no smaller way to test it.

Porcelain

Translucent, but too fragile at full scale.

Stoneware

Stronger, while allowing the petals to stay thin.

Two pink glazed test cups held in a hand

Colour

At 1200°C, chemical reactions in the glaze determine the final colour — making multiple tests an integral part of the process.

Each trial changed something: material, thickness, form or process.

Until the flowers could hold both, the scale and delicacy.

The finished floral lamps on either side of the bed in the finished bedroom

From full-scale tests to their final place

Bathroom with a hand-made yellow basin sculpted with dinosaurs on a green vanity

Handmade Basins

Sculptural ceramics, made functional.

Developed for Design Hex

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A prehistoric world, inside a basin.

Created for the client’s daughters’ bathroom. Their brief was simple:

“We want dinosaurs.”

And dinosaurs, we delivered.

Dimensions

W: 18 in · H: 8 in

Close-up of the yellow basin with fern leaves and small dinosaur figures

The grey clay basin before glazing, with dinosaur forms sculpted inside

A different room.

A different expression.

Hand-modelled botanical forms extend across the basin’s exterior, bringing dimension to its black-and-white surface.

Black-and-white striped basin with red botanical details on a carved wooden vanity

Striped basin with red flowers and leaves, seen close up

Grey clay basin interior with botanical details

Botanical shapes being modelled by hand onto the basin

Wall art of ceramic flowers and leaves on a cream background

Botanical Wall Art

Sculptural ceramics with Lustre Detailing.

Developed for Multitude of Sins

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Close-up of an iridescent glazed ceramic petal in amber and silver

The brief called for Iridescence.

So we developed it.

The reference called for a pearlescent, iridescent surface we hadn’t produced before.

We developed the process through testing, then refined the colour until the material and the brief aligned.

The palette had to be developed, not chosen.

We tested colour, clay bodies, textures and surface treatments against the references, refining the options until they worked together as one composition.

Hand holding a small copper and violet glazed shell-shaped tile

Hand holding a round tile with blue ripple glaze

Test piece of a beaded stem and leaves in blue and bronze

Hand holding a small glazed shell in brown and bronze

Hand holding a small blue glazed square tile

Four glazed spheres in turquoise and cream

Round marbled clay disc in brown and cream

Multiple compositional groups.

55 rounds of sampling.

One finished wall piece.

55 samples → 1 finish

The finished botanical wall piece of ceramic flowers and leaves

Bathroom with a marble vanity, arched mirror and two ceramic capsule wall lights

Capsules

Sculptural ceramic lighting

Developed for MuseLAB

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Collaboration

Pravaha x Nameplaceanimalthing

Dimensions

L: 11 in · B: 6 in · H: 4 in

Got an idea that feels a little too ambitious?

Good. Let’s try it in clay.

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Soft sculpted ceramic form in pale speckled stone

India Design 2026

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