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"My work exists between ornament and structure — between Istanbul and New York — between sculpture and ceremony."
"Decoration implies superficiality. I'm interested in ornament as structure — as something that defines spatial experience, not merely embellishes it. Lighting is not illumination. It is suspended jewelry. Spatial adornment. Ceremonial object." — Feyza Kemahlioglu
Born and raised in Istanbul, Feyza Kemahlioglu trained as an architect at Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia GSAPP in New York. It was a parallel discipline — glassblowing — that redirected her practice toward objects and light.
FEYZ Studio was founded in New York in 2015 as an investigation into how ornament, craft, and cultural memory can function architecturally — through light. The studio works at the intersection of architecture and making: each piece is conceived structurally before it is made beautifully.
Feyza's deep connection to Anatolian craft traditions — glass-blowing, meerschaum carving, ornamental metalwork — became her material language. Her architectural training gave her a structural vocabulary. The work lives in the tension between those two worlds: Istanbul and New York. Ornament and structure. Ritual and modernity.
"In Western modernism, ornament was stripped away. In many Eastern and Middle Eastern traditions, ornament carries identity, status, ritual, protection, ceremony. I live between those two philosophies. That tension is my engine."
Living between Turkey and America creates friction in aesthetics. That friction is not a problem to resolve — it is the engine of the work.
Lighting as architectural-scale jewelry. Light as something worn by space — intimate, precious, ceremonial.
Glass-blowing. Carving. Hand-shaping. Technique is not a means to an end — it is the author's signature on the work.
Meerschaum. Glass. Metal. The interplay of porosity, opacity, and luminosity — materials chosen for what they say, not just what they do.
Every piece begins with experimentation. The studio works collaboratively with master craftspeople — glass-blowers in Brooklyn, meerschaum carvers in Eskişehir, metalworkers across New York — testing materials and techniques until the form earns its existence.
Our glass is hand-made in Brooklyn, NY. We continuously experiment with new techniques — not to innovate for its own sake, but to find the right material expression for each idea. Custom projects are a natural part of this process: working directly with clients, architects, and interior designers to create pieces made specifically for a space.
This is not production. It is authorship.
Whether you're an architect, collector, interior designer, or simply someone who wants a piece made for your space — we'd love to hear from you.
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