Morgan Timuri

Morgan Timuri is a multidisciplinary designer who, after a long journey of trying to find materials and forms that resonate with her, has fallen and found her way on a path to create handcrafted furniture and objects with materials sourced from discarded piles that others have deemed worthless. In giving these materials a second life, she positions herself to align with the idea that what is overlooked holds value and that care and attention can transform something forgotten into beautiful functionality. Her pieces are designed to find a way to infiltrate ordinary life, where the tension between the aesthetic and the functional is at the heart of her practice.

Her cultural heritage spanning Afghanistan, Iraq and wider Asia informs her work not through explicit visual reference, but through ethos. In these traditions, making by hand is an act of care and knowledge passed willingly between generations, a sentiment Morgan carries directly into her studio, where she chases a legacy for the irreplaceable quality of the human hand. In an era of disposable mass production, she reintroduces an understanding long held across cultures: that objects can carry memory and intention.

Bridging the worlds of fine art and functional craft allows her to challenge the systems that have historically separated the two. These systems marginalised non-Western making traditions and her work demonstrates that an object can be beautiful, culturally resonant and useful all at once.