Miguel
Najarian

Designer & Sculptor Los Angeles

Selected Work

Portfolio

Product Design · Fall 2025

Aura Stool

A bar stool built around visibility: a soft light glows from the base to signal an open seat across a crowded room. Developed from early ideation through refined seating profiles in a Fall 2025 product design studio.

Concept · Product Design Studio
Product Design · Fall 2025

Saltair

A one-hand seasoning sprayer designed for even, mess-free coverage, developed through early ideation and interviews with working chefs in the same Fall 2025 studio.

Concept · Product Design Studio
Sculpture · Ongoing Collection

Bibo’s Design

An open-ended line of sculptural studies built around a single recurring character, oversized everyday objects reworked as standalone pieces, revisited across different materials and finishes. No. 1 Pencil and Sharpener, shown above, open the series.

No. 1

Pencil Floor Lamp

Wood, HVAC sheet metal, acrylic, light bulb

Height 6.5 ft (198 cm)2025

Sharpener

Wood, aluminum sheet

21 × 24 in (53 × 61 cm)2026

One Line Series, piece 1 of 3
One Line Series, piece 2 of 3
One Line Series, piece 3 of 3
One Line Series01 / 03
Sculpture

One Line Series

Faces drawn freehand as a single line, then rebuilt by hand in foam liner as raised relief pieces for the wall.

Sculpture

Breathe

A draped plaster bust, form emerging from folded, fabric-like mass.

Sculpture

Foosball Table

A handmade mini foosball table built in five woods and three finishes over a 12-week Applied Design studio, set inside a case that lights up, etched with a stadium and its fans.

Experiential · Coachella & Stagecoach

Festival Builds

Lounges, rest areas and photo moments designed and built with a team for Coachella and Stagecoach, taking bare tents and open festival grounds to finished, guest-ready spaces.

01

Before & After

Festival tent during the build, bare plywood floorBefore
The same tent finished, painted floor, lounge seating and gamesAfter
02

Lounges

Havasu lounge with a canopy of suspended inner tubes, shade sails and hammocks
Havasu lounge hammocks under orange shade sails

Havasu, a lounge on the Stagecoach grounds built to bring the desert-and-lake feel of Lake Havasu to the festival: shade sails, hammocks and a floating canopy of inner tubes.

03

Photo Ops

Honky Tonk Angel neon wings photo wall at night
Stagecoach neon palm and jet ski photo set at night
How the Work Gets Made

Process

Moments from the studio, from raw lumber and sheet metal to the finished object.

01

Material

Work begins with the material itself, its weight, grain, and resistance, before any drawing happens.

Carrying lumber out of the yard
Boards laid out on the workbench
Bar clamps ready on the bench
02

Form

Full-scale drawings and rough studies test proportion and balance long before a final piece is built.

Drawing a full-scale line study on the studio floor, from above
The hexagonal pencil body, glued up
Holding the long hexagonal body upright
Fanned wood segments for the pencil tip
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Making

Each piece is built by hand in wood, metal, plaster, or foam, with fabrication treated as part of the design, not a step after it.

Spray-painted stencil on the studio floor
Stepping back to look at the pencil while painting it, from above
Mounting a One Line Series piece on the wall
04

Object

The finished work is left to hold its own presence, without over-explaining itself.

Miguel Najarian in the studio, crouched at the base of the pencil sculpture, painting it
In the studio · Painting the No. 1 Pencil Floor Lamp
About

The Practice

I’m a designer and sculptor working across furniture, sculpture, and site-specific installation.

My practice sits at the edge of product design and fine art. I develop functional objects and standalone sculptural forms side by side, using the same material language throughout.

Materials

  • Mixed Media
  • Wood
  • Foam
  • Metal
  • Plaster & Clay
  • Cement

Practice

  • Studio Commissions
  • Gallery Exhibitions
  • Site-Specific Installation
  • Spatial Experience Design
  • Interior Design
  • Furniture & Object Design
  • Consulting
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