studio@sakdere.com
With a background in Industrial Design, she has developed an interdisciplinary practice through close engagement with craftspeople. Time spent working alongside artisans in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar broadened her understanding of traditional making techniques and continues to inform her approach to material experimentation and contemporary design.
MA Design Products
2025-26, London
Supported by Logitech Diversty Scholarship in Art and Design
Metropolia University of Applied Science
Product Design, Erasmus Exchange
2022, Helsinki
Kadir Has University
BA, Industrial Design
2019-2024, Istanbul
Junior Product Designer
2024
Gorbon Ceramics
Product Design Intern
2023
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye
Research Assistant
STAR Scholarship Helder
2023
Yakamoz Glass
Product Design Intern
Pharetra Massa
2023
TasarımÜssü
Industrial Design Intern
2022
Fakir Hausgerate
Industrial Design Intern
2021
Design Through Making
Resarch Through Design
Wood Working
Glass Blowing - Beginner
Leather Work
Branding
Visual Communication
Brompton Design District
Perfectly Imperfect
September 2026
London Design Festival
Brompton Design District
One Tool One Stool
2026
RCA, Design Products
Degree Show
London
2026
The Glass Furnace Turkey
Glass Blowing Fundamentals Exhibiton
July 2023
Habitare Fair
Lightining Design
Helsiki,
2023
Demo
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
’Designing a Wooden storing unit’
Helsinki
2022
Scholarship Award from Glass Furnace Turkey
Glass Blowing Fundamentals
2023
Free Standing Cabinet
Vegetable Tanned Leather - Ash - Metal Embroidery
Positioned at the intersection of craftsmanship, material exploration and cultural memory, this cabinet reimagines Anatolian handcraft through a new material language.
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Stool
Vegetable Tanned Leather - Leather Laces
Developed in response to the One Tool One Stool brief, this project investigates the leather string as an unconventional means of material manipulation.
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Wooden Storage Box
Inspired by the everyday habit of placing small objects onto nearby surfaces, this piece translates an instinctive gesture into form. A carved recess in the lid provides a subtle resting place for these objects, giving purpose to an otherwise habitual action.
Lightining
Sade is a multi-layered lighting object that brings together Finnish cultural values, nature, and the present moment through minimal form. Inspired by the calmness of Finnish life and the gentle rhythm of water, it invites the user to pause and reflect on the quiet beauty of everyday moments
Chair
Ash
Cabinet
Plywood, Vegetable Tanned Leather