About
KAMB by Asher Bezdek
KAMB designs homeware, covers eco architecture, publishes my photography, keeps the only and most expansive Spoon Index, and other work by Asher Bezdek.
The through line
KAMB starts with ordinary objects and ordinary places, then gives them the amount of attention they usually do not receive. A spoon, a hook, a bench, a courtyard apartment, or a photograph can all hold design decisions worth studying.
My work moves between making, looking, and writing. Physical objects test weight, proportion, finish, and usefulness. ECO ARC follows architecture and infrastructure through questions of sustainability, preservation, city life, and built-environment memory. Photography keeps a record of places and details I've seen before they disappear.
I am curious to the point of obsession over what I care about. Small things can explain taste, systems, habits, and the way we move through life, just as much as they can change them.
Homeware
Furniture, lighting, hooks, desk objects, trays, stools, benches, and custom pieces shaped by material behavior and daily use.
ECO ARC
Essays on eco architecture, preservation, infrastructure, adaptive reuse, transit, and the systems that quietly decide how cities feel.
Photography
Photographs from places I have been, buildings I notice, travel, quiet scenes, and images that feel worth keeping around.
Spoon Index
A very official, deeply unnecessary ranking of spoons judged by ergonomics, bowl geometry, lip feel, handle rigidity, and the strange intimacy of use.
Works
An archive for prototypes, one-of-one objects, and my design process.
Where to start
Start in the shop for available objects and made-to-order pieces, the works archive for a less polished study of my designs, or Writing for essays on architecture, preservation, environmental design, and random things I find interesting.
Photography is organized as collections, usually from when I was in specific places, including Japan, Googie architecture, Vietnam and Cambodia, Death Valley, and more. The Spoon Index is exactly what it sounds like, which is also why it needs to exist.