Leo Lei

1 month ago | design-milk.com | Leo Lei

The Independents marks Colony’s 10th anniversary as a platform where founder Jean Lin’s personal vision and marketplace viability find rare equilibrium. The exhibition brings together 24 design studios from Colony’s orbit, each responding to what independence in design practice means to them. The resulting collection serves as both retrospective and manifesto – a declaration that independence in design isn’t merely aesthetic preference but philosophical stance.

1 month ago | design-milk.com | Leo Lei

Known primarily for his masterful ceramics, Danny Kaplan has now ventured boldly beyond his established vocabulary, introducing three collections that signal a dramatic expansion of his material exploration while maintaining the sculptural sensibility that defines his work. Kaplan’s thoughtful approach to palette – evident in his carefully developed ceramic glazes – serves as a throughline connecting his new ventures in metal furniture, hand-knotted rugs, and resin mirrors.

1 month ago | design-milk.com | Leo Lei

Susan Clark, whose singular vision for Radnor has reshaped the landscape of contemporary design curation, stands at the threshold of the gallery’s most ambitious chapter yet – Evolution in Form – a sun-drenched penthouse perched 70 floors above Manhattan within the soaring Sutton Tower. Her influence on how we experience design in residential contexts has been transformative, creating dialogue between object and space that transcends traditional gallery paradigms.

1 month ago | design-milk.com | Leo Lei

What first appeared as a monolithic statement in raw metal now emerges in a curated palette of black brown, white, beige, and vermillion – transforming Sabine Marcelis’ original Stedelijk Chair design into a new conversation about color and form. This evolution speaks to what the Rotterdam-based designer once described as her interest in form and materiality, where the material itself becomes both canvas and structure.

1 month ago | design-milk.com | Leo Lei

A spiral staircase ascends through three stories of the Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel’s Sky Lobby, its copper-accented herringbone floors below mirroring the city’s historic cobbled streets. Framed by fluted columns, the staircase becomes more than mere vertical circulation, but rather a material manifesto of how Stonehill Taylor’s design for North America’s first Raffles property unveils Boston’s cultural heritage.