DESIGNER PROFILE

Robert Sukrachand is a New York City and Chiang Mai based furniture designer. Since launching his first collection in 2015 Robert has created mixed material works that blend divergent material and cultural influences.

Growing up in Massachusetts but spending his summers in his father's native Thailand, Robert has always sought energy from liminal spaces where boundaries are blurred and translation is a necessity. The same can be said of his design practice which at its core seeks to create a dialogue between craft disciplines, cultural histories, and material forms.

In 2019 Robert’s work turned introspective with Mirazzo, a collection of mirror and stone aggregate benches which reinterpreted Thailand’s terrazzo street furniture. This was an attempt to use his own material vernacular to build upon a hybrid form in which no single designer - but rather Thai material society more broadly - had reimagined an Italian construction technique in a way that pervades everyday Thai life.⁣

In May of 2024 Robert launched PERN BAAN, his new Chiang Mai-based design studio that produces artisan made lighting + home decor designed between New York City and Thailand. PERN BAAN’s mission is to use design as a universal language for connection and community building.

Robert’s work is frequently featured in such publications as Interior Design, The New York Times Style Magazine, RUM ID, Elle Decor, The Cut, and Design Milk, among others. In 2020, he was named as “one of the 20 names to know now in American design” by the editors of Sight Unseen. Please refer to our PRESS section for full articles.