Nathan Yong Recipient of Singapore President's Design Award for Designer of the Year in 2008

Nathan Yong Recipient of Singapore President's Design Award for Designer of the Year in 2008

 

Developer Nathan Yong gained recognition as a pioneer in the Singapore design setting when he founded layout firm Air Division in 1999 with 3 good friends. Air Division was the initial Singaporean business to sell its styles to high-end furnishings retailers.Yong graduated from the University of New South Wales with a distinction in Masters in Design. After working as the innovative director of Air Division from 1999-- 2009, he launched a consultancy called Nathan Yong Design and Folks, a furnishings label that honors Eastern furniture craft. In terms of scale, Yong's items are affected by the congestion of city living and value feature and simplicity. "My work is a reflection of my yearning for nature in a concrete jungle like Singapore. Spaces are smaller sized and folks are busier," claims Yong.Today, along with running his own furnishings tag and consultancy, Yong additionally serves as layout supervisor for Grafunkt, an appealing Singapore-based firm that focuses on Eastern developers and items. He has actually obtained the Singapore President's Design Award for Designer of the Year in 2008 and the Red Dot Concept Layout Honor in both 2006 and 2007. Yong's work has shown up in international layout magazines consisting of Situation da Abitare, Wallpaper \*, Monocle and Dwell.ElizabethAs with most Nathan Yong's layouts, Elizabeth is both liquid in style and makes the best feasible use of all-natural materials. The excellent structure of the armchair and settee is in black-stained solid ash, creating a welcoming nest where many cushions in carefully-blended colors and/or covering materials create an intimate and welcome area. Examining this framework very closely, the lot of basic elements and the quality of their assembly, one can easily appreciate the quantity of job which has entered into its production.In a sitting room, the sofa and armchair will certainly combine equally as well with classic items as they will certainly with additional contemporary products, bringing a warm, 'deco' really feel. The numerous opportunities in terms of colour and/or material associations for the pillows will likewise ensure its owner a virtually special piece!Primary Desk "I believe sometimes like these, folks often return to the past to look for some solace," claims Nathan Yong. And with one look at his Primary Desk (2010), it's clear that this developer is ready to take us there. With a salute towards the mid-century furnishings that he grew up with in Singapore, Yong designed this desk after a flashback of his primary school days in the class. There's additionally something advanced concerning it, with its sharp legs and powerful side profile, which Yong sees as something "straight out of The Jetsons, the cartoon that I made use of to see at that age." The desk has five cabinets-- three in the leading shelf and two in the desktop computer. There are no ornamental cabinet pulls to sidetrack you while you function. Instead, Yong formed the cabinet fronts to have "tabs" like those you would certainly locate in a note pad, making the cabinets easy to open up and shut. He likewise angled the fronts of the small drawers to allow for the pitch of an open laptop computer. Spend some time and examine the Primary Desk, and you'll see that Yong is a very wise developer. His ideas are well thought out and totally dealt with. Made in Malaysia.