Mumbai design studio MuseLAB has prioritised sensual appeal over a singular design language for its debut 13-piece furniture collection.
The Hedonist range leans primarily on wood, glass and metal to form a series of tables and seats, as well as a singular mirror.
As the name suggests, each piece plays with complimenting and contrasting these materials in the name of achieving maximum aesthetic pleasure.
Crossed back legs prop up the Nougat I chair
Instead, the focus is on how the same materials can be combined and recombined endlessly to very different, but ultimately satisfactory, effects.
Two of the collection's coffee tables, for example, both integrate glass into their design, but the material takes on very different roles in each.
A double helix of hand-hammered metal sheets forms the base of the Disc table The textural interplay gives the furniture a sense of movement, as when Disc's glass top exposes the light and shadow of the double-helix underneath.
This base is hand-hammered into shape from five millimetre-thick metal sheets, before being left to rust naturally and finally coated with a sealer. Most pieces in the collection use materials in their natural state, sealed with a water-based PU finish.

Besides the cylindrical glass that props up the Bloom table, all fabrication is done in Mumbai.
The larger Bon Bon II is designed to be a dining table
Other seating designs in the collection play with a luxurious, chocolate-brown faux-leather, using it alternately to ...