COMPOSITION AND BALANCE: STUDIO JUNGMO YANG
Yang Jungmo is not the type to blindly follow stylistic trends or to propose extravagant designs. He aims at creating the kind of ‘furniture a grandmother can pass on to her granddaughter’, ‘objects which still look attractive after a long time’, or ‘amiable designs that can put anyone at ease’. SPACE asked him to talk about the necessary elements behind timeless and meaningful design.
Choi Eunhwa (Choi): After graduating from university, you worked as an industrial designer at SWBK (now SWNA and BKID). What did you focus on there? What motivated you to leave this firm and establish your own studio?
Yang Jungmo (Yang): At the time, most of the projects I worked on involved designing office furniture. These were large-scale projects with multiple stakeholders, requiring a lot of time and effort at the
