Maria Tyakina is a furniture designer whose artistic practice centres around exploring physicality and reimagining the habitual ways of viewing everyday objects. Sculptural gestures characterise Maria’s work and emphasise form, materiality, and spatial relationships.

Maria aims to blend form and narrative with the inherent qualities of the materials and construction techniques used. By balancing research and the physical process of creation, Maria’s innovative approach to material expression enables her to create objects where abstraction and functionality meet and converse. Originally from Russia, Maria completed her Interior Architecture and Furniture Design studies at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, in the Netherlands, where she now lives and works.