Teo Yang Studio SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

The two traditional hanoks in Seoul’s new-meets-old Bukchon Hanok Village where Teo Yang lives and works (AD, May 2021) have, no doubt, inspired the designer’s singular approach. “Focusing on local context, heritage, and culture but recasting it in a very modern, 21st-century aesthetic has been a manifesto for me,” says the designer, who worked for Marcel Wanders in Amsterdam before returning to his native Seoul to start his own practice in 2009. Since then, he’s brought that mantra to stores and restaurants as well as the lobby of the ancient artifact-filled Silla History Gallery at the Gyeongju National Museum. This year he launched his own furniture collection, Eastern Edition. Next up: the L.A. home of a prominent Korean art collector, the Seoul outpost of Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, and a national…

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Architectural Digest (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2022

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