RickLee

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From a gnarled oak tree to a sleek pocket knife, award winning San Francisco industrial designer Rick Lee finds inspiration in everyday objects. An innovator at the vanguard of modern design, Lee combines rational thinking with radical influences to create minimalist pieces with deft whimsical touches.

Upon obtaining a degree in industrial design, Lee began his career in Chicago with notable furniture manufacturers and design studios. Relocating to Milan , he then honed his distinctive artistic style seen in his work today. Incorporating minimal principles of Bauhaus with experience he gained collaborating at the irreverent Studio Alchimia, Lee nurtured a unique aesthetic that is both vibrant and charismatic.

After more than 15 years of multi-disciplinary exploration in San Francisco, Chicago, and Milan, Lee and his team now design for major furniture manufacturers and independent clients including Bolnaldo, Penta lighting, Magis, Surface Magazine, Bombay sapphire, American Leather, DWR and the San Francisco Opera Guild. His work has appeared in movie sets and in celebrity homes of Bruce Willis and Michael Jordon. Lee’s designs have also been widely exhibited and reviewed in notable publications such as the New York Times, Metropolitan Home, Surface Magazine, Case De Abitare, ID, Metropolis and Dwell.

Lee’s theoretical approach to design hinges on the tactics of an actor. Working with a wide range of materials and resources, he prefers not to work with any one particular material on a consistent basis. Lee considers “ California cuisine” an apt metaphor for his work—a mix of seemingly incongruent ingredients carefully combined to create something new and fresh.

"The Essence collection....all based around promoting the idea of environmental consciousness. Therefore, not only the material used are derived from nature (like wool and silk) but my designs for this collection are also an organic interpretation of nature inspired theme. From the bold thumbprint image is to represent the idea of us (human/mammals) to the butterfly pattern which is to show off the magnificent beauty of insect. The nature (rugs) symbolizes the very ESSENCE of our eco conscious responsibility." -Rick Lee

Standard Sizes: 5' x 8', 6' x 9', 8' x 10', 9' x 12', 10' x 14'