Tuğba Koç’s HOMA at Milan Design Week 2026
Elena Lazzarini
For Milan Design Week 2026, Tuğba Koç’s brand, HOMA, is on view throughout the week in two special collaborations across the city. They will be at Linteloo (Salone del Mobile Fiera Milano, Rho). In addition, you can see them at Neutra (Palazzo Visconti, Via Cino del Duca 8, Milano).
Contemporary design atelier
HOMA is a contemporary design atelier based in Vienna and Istanbul, specialising in mirrors, lighting, interior objects, and furniture crafted through the integration of multidisciplinary techniques and materials. Additionally, behind HOMA stands Tuğba Koç, blending artistic innovation with modern design.
At HOMA, handcraft is where every transformation begins. Artisans work with glass, mirrors, and metal by hand. They push these materials beyond their traditional boundaries into sculptural forms that explore reflection and translucency. Every object is born from a process of experimentation. Through this process, glass, marble, and metal take on new stories of memory and change. In addition, stone, glass, and precious metals are merged, mirrored, and reimagined into conversations between transparency and opacity, fragility and strength, reflection and depth. Through the creative direction of Tuğba Koç, these materials find new meaning within contemporary interiors.
HOMA exists at the crossroads of art, design, and sculpture, transforming glass, marble, mirror, and natural metals such as brass and copper into unique collectible works. In this atelier, craft is understood as an open horizon, a space where materials are honoured for their individual histories. Koç and her team then fuse and reconstruct them into new dialogues of contrast and resonance.
Founded by interior architect and artist Tuğba Koç, HOMA approaches every work as something greater than an object. Each piece becomes a component of a larger environment. Light, reflection, and material precision become architectural tools. Altogether, these tools help build atmospheres that dissolve the boundaries between art, architecture, and design.
Founder and creative director: Tuğba Koç
Tuğba Koç is an artist and designer whose work centres on transformation through material. She immerses herself in the properties of glass, marble, brass, and copper. A defining element of her work is her experimental approach to mirroring, where elemental reactions give rise to unexpected patinas, patterns, and reflective surfaces.
Collections such as Nebula, Eye of the Universe, Ash, Orbis, and Drop of Silver on Copper embody this material alchemy. These works reinterpret natural elements through experimentation and contrast, and dissolve the boundary between functional design and sculptural presence.
Working alongside her women-led team and master artisans, Tuğba Koç creates collectible works that celebrate craftsmanship. At the same time, these works evolve craftsmanship into contemporary expression.
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