Design
Forms drawn slowly
Each form is drawn and revised until a single gesture carries the object, then checked as a print before it enters the catalog. A piece that is only a variation on one we already make does not get added.
The studio
A studio for stillness
Puku Prints is a small 3D-print studio in India making six decorative objects for design-conscious rooms. Every piece is printed to order in plant-based PLA, finished by hand, and shipped from India. Nothing is held in stock.
Layer by layer on the bed
The piece is printed to order in plant-based PLA over 11 to 26 hours depending on the form. One printer, one object at a time — a print that fails at hour twenty fails completely, so someone checks on it.
Finish
Edges that feel held
Edges and rims are sanded by hand so they feel resolved rather than cut. The printed faces are left as they came off the bed, because the layer lines are the record of how the piece was made.
Ship
Sent when it is ready
The finished piece is packed and shipped from India, free on orders above ₹1,500. We write to you when it leaves the print bed. There is no warehouse pile for it to be pulled from.
We would rather make fewer things, and make them well.Puku Prints
The material, honestly
We print in plant-based PLA — a plastic made from fermented plant sugars rather than petroleum. It is industrially compostable, which is a narrower claim than it sounds: it needs a facility that holds material at high temperature for weeks, it is not home-compostable, and it will not break down usefully in a landfill.
We chose it because the feedstock is genuinely different and because printing it needs no solvent stage. But the material is not where the argument is won. It is won by making one object, once, for one person, and by making an object worth keeping.
There are things a printed piece is not good at, and we would rather say so here than have you find out at home. A printed vase is not watertight, so cut flowers need a glass liner. A printed bowl is a catch-all rather than tableware. And PLA softens above roughly 55°C, so nothing we make belongs in a dishwasher or a parked car.
Six pieces in the current drop
A small catalog. Printed when you ask.