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Tahir Mahmood Design I am Tahir Mahmood, a designer based in Toronto.

There’s a kind of knowing that only comes through your own hands.Every piece here started as raw clay on the wheel, pull...
29/05/2026

There’s a kind of knowing that only comes through your own hands.

Every piece here started as raw clay on the wheel, pulled and shaped into form before being glazed and trusted to the fire. And then comes the moment of first opening the kiln, when they finally become what you see now.

These will become one-of-a-kind lamps, totems, and a chandelier. Each one carries the quiet marks of its making: the small decisions, the imperfections, the character that can only live in something shaped entirely by hand.

🔗 Inquire about commissions — link in bio.

14/05/2026

Some designers are drawn to furniture. Others to ceramics. For me, it has always come back to light.

There is something about the way a well-designed lamp changes a room, not just what you see, but how the space feels. It’s something that I will never get tired of exploring.

This one is close to my heart.

A studio surface where an artist has been working for the last 30 days with one color — black
14/05/2026

A studio surface where an artist has been working for the last 30 days with one color — black

Over the last few months, something quietly beautiful has been unfolding through clay.What began as curiosity slowly tur...
03/05/2026

Over the last few months, something quietly beautiful has been unfolding through clay.
What began as curiosity slowly turned into a deep connection — between hands, earth, fire, movement, and time.
It feels like a journey unfolding within another journey — a new love story in the making.
Let’s see how this evolves.

Soon available at
www.tahirmahmood.com

Over the last few months, something quietly beautiful has been unfolding through clay.What began as curiosity slowly tur...
03/05/2026

Over the last few months, something quietly beautiful has been unfolding through clay.
What began as curiosity slowly turned into a deep connection — between hands, earth, fire, movement, and time.

It feels like a journey unfolding within another journey — a new love story in the making.

Let’s see how this evolves.

Soon available at
www.tahirmahmood.com

Every design has an origin. Mine begins in Changa Manga.In 2009, I left Lahore in search of one specific craftsman, the ...
28/04/2026

Every design has an origin. Mine begins in Changa Manga.

In 2009, I left Lahore in search of one specific craftsman, the master of a wood coloring technique I knew would bring the Chattoo Watta to life. I asked around for weeks.

That’s how I found Ustad Noor Hassan.
A master in every sense of the word, with decades of knowledge living in his hands.

I drove an hour and a half into his village, sat with him in his workshop, and together we shaped the very first prototypes of the Chattoo Watta — carved from rosewood, finished with a technique only he could deliver.

A year later, that mortar and pestle would go on to receive the Design Exchange Award.
But long before any recognition, there was just a designer from Toronto and a craftsman from Changa Manga, sitting on the floor of his workshop, figuring it out together.

This is the heart of Tahir Mahmood Design. A designer’s vision is only as alive as the hands that bring it into the world.

The Chattoo Watta.
Carved from rosewood.
Built by a master.

🔗 Shop the Chattoo Watta — link in bio.

20/04/2026

The story behind Bulbul — in my own words.

I asked myself what would it take to make a bird feeder that belonged as much to the garden as the birds themselves?

I spent months working alongside the craftsmen I’ve collaborated with for years, shaping and reshaping the form until it felt right. I wanted the surface to feel honest, the kind of material that weathers beautifully, that ages with the garden instead of sitting apart from it.

The shape itself came from studying bird nests… that soft, cupped geometry that birds instinctively trust.

And then came the squirrels.
After watching them outsmart the first prototypes again and again, I went back to the drawing board and designed a baffle — integrated into the form so it looks like it was always meant to be there.

This is how every piece at Tahir Mahmood Design comes to life. Slowly. Through observation. Through problem-solving. Through the hands of craftsmen who care as deeply about the work as I do.
Bulbul is minimal in form.
Generous in purpose. And quietly built for the birds it was made to welcome.

🔗 Shop Bulbul — link in bio.

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12/04/2026

Twenty years of working with craftsmen in Pakistan, and there are still techniques that stop me in my tracks.

One of them is a centuries-old method of colouring wood using natural pigments — something I’ve never once come across here in Canada.

So I’m going to learn it, and then bring it here.

And once I do, I want to see what happens when those traditional pigments meet the lacquers and materials we have access to in Canada. What new things can we create when two worlds of craft finally meet in the same room?

That’s the experiment. I can’t wait to share what comes out of it.

Before it hangs from your balcony, it starts here. 🤍These are moments we’ve never shared before — the making of Bulbul, ...
06/04/2026

Before it hangs from your balcony, it starts here. 🤍

These are moments we’ve never shared before — the making of Bulbul, our handcrafted ceramic bird feeder, designed and made right here in Toronto.

Over three decades of working alongside master craftsmen has taught me one thing above all else: there is no shortcut to something that is truly felt. Bulbul begins as raw clay, shaped by skilled hands, smoothed with care, and loaded into the kiln with patience.
What emerges is not just a bird feeder — it is a small, quiet testament to what handmade craftsmanship can be.

Each piece is a confluence of utility and beauty. Minimal in form, yet alive with the kind of warmth that only comes from something made slowly, intentionally, and with deep respect for the process.

Available in kiln-fired ceramic and terracotta, Bulbul is designed to bring a little wildness back to your balcony or garden — attracting Cardinals, Goldfinches, Blue Jays, Woodpeckers, and more to your corner of Southern Ontario. 🐦
Minimal in form. Generous in purpose.
🔗 Shop Bulbul — link in bio.

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Every piece we create is a conversation between two worlds — the craft traditions of Pakistan and the design sensibility...
01/04/2026

Every piece we create is a conversation between two worlds — the craft traditions of Pakistan and the design sensibility of contemporary Canada. 🤝

For over three decades, we’ve believed that the most extraordinary home decor isn’t manufactured — it’s handcrafted, with intention, by makers who carry generations of knowledge in their hands.

From the pottery wheels of Lahore to the workshops of the GTA, this is what drives everything we make at Tahir Mahmood Design.

Handcrafted. Heritage-rooted. Made to last a lifetime.

🔗 Read our latest blog post — link in bio.

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