Why interior designer Joyce Wang’s flair for cinematic compositions puts emphasis on ‘less is more’
- Founder of London and Hong Kong practice, responsible for Mott 32 restaurants around the world, reveals her love of film, a sense of the dramatic and home
- Wang, known for her multilayered industrial chic concepts, says she is increasingly putting comfort first in her ideas
Even before starting her design studio in Hong Kong in 2011, interior designer Joyce Wang was already a global citizen.
Born in Hawaii, she went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, the Royal College of Art in London and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and has worked for Foster + Partners.
A mother of three, she has gained a reputation for beautifully thought-out design and layered narratives over the years and won international hotel, wellness, restaurant and residential projects, while her eponymous practice has grown to encompass 11 staff in its Hong Kong office and 10 in London.
Her approach to design, has also evolved. “We care about comfort more and more,” Wang says of her studio.
“We were known for our metal, our industrial chic style and we still love the metal details, but we want [the spaces we design] to be comfortable, so metal might be in places you don’t touch. It’s something you might experience on a different level.”
The spaces Wang creates may put comfort first, but they still have that sense of drama that has always been a Wang Studio calling card.
