Karouna Chanyudhakorn

Karouna Chanyudhakorn is an interior stylist and FF&E designer based in France, trained at the intersection of fashion and interior design. Her career spans some of the most exacting studios in European design: she began at Trend Union, the forecasting studio founded by Lidewij Edelkoort, before working with Mlinaric Henry & Zervudachi, Sebastien Bergne, and Bruno Borrione. Her final position before founding her own practice was at Philippe Starck's studio, an experience that shaped both her rigour and her sensitivity to form.

Her specialty is FF&E, with a particular focus on lighting. For Karouna, light is the defining element of any interior: not a technical afterthought but a quality that determines whether a space feels inhabited or merely furnished. She approaches it through colour and shade, treating luminosity as a material in its own right.

This thinking takes concrete form in the Tara table lamp, her signature piece. Hand-cast in slightly polished bronze with a woven raffia shade, it weighs five kilograms. The form emerged from what she describes as an intuitive process: the hands following thought, the object taking shape before it is designed. The result is a lamp that holds stillness without being static.

Her work is available on Monde Singulier as part of the Tara collection.