A Paean to Light and Love
A neurosurgeon met a fashionista and they fell in love. Initially based far apart, they made the world their carpet and collected from it treasures of antiquity and affection—each marking a moment along a shared trajectory. They bought a home together and these objects became salt to the dish, garnishing silent walls with narratives. This, in brief, is the tale thus far of Damian Lee and Faye Yang. Their abode has only been inhabited for a year since they got married last August, but is timeless for abounding reasons.
Serendipity had it such that the duo had studied in the same junior college prior to being introduced by a common friend. Their match is a pairing of the cerebral and the sensual—a surgeon’s work requires precision and rigour, and Yang’s aesthetically grounded training first in visual arts, and then at Parsons School of Design in New York, schooled her perceptive manner of amalgamating material and emotion. “Art and design is an integral part of me. I have always been drawn to forms, colours and textures, and their interplay with one another. I wanted my home to be layered with different materials,
