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A handcrafted pleated silk lamp glowing in the Penah atelier

One light.One story.One of one.

Atelier · Istanbul · Est. 2024

Selected Works

Each work is singular. When it finds its home, it leaves the collection forever.

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Burcu Erdal in her Istanbul atelier

Atelier · Istanbul · 2026

The Maker

Burcu Erdal

Interior Architect · Maker · Lecturer · Researcher

With degrees in restoration, interior architecture, and architecture from Yıldız Technical University, Doğuş University, and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University — and a PhD still in progress — Burcu brings fifteen years of practice and a scholar's patience to every piece she makes.

She teaches. She restores. She researches. And in the hours between, she makes lamps that carry the memory of all three.

Meet the maker

We don't manufacture lighting.
We give birth to it.

The Penah promise

From the Atelier

Quiet moments, captured between pleats.

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  • Burcu Erdal atölyede çalışırken
  • Pleating in progress
  • Applying gold bullion fringe
  • First light
  • Burcu Erdal
  • Shaping the frame

The Slow Letter

Enter the world of Penah.

A short letter, sent only when a new piece is born or an old one finds its home. No noise, no commerce — only quiet news from the atelier.

We send rarely. We keep it short.

Philosophy

Design, for me, is not merely an aesthetic pursuit — it is an ethical responsibility.

Burcu Erdal