Kwangho Lee

Kwangho Lee is a Seoul-based designer working between craft and industrial design, best known for furniture and lighting in which PVC tubing, electrical wire, copper and enamel are knitted, woven or bound into continuous sculptural surfaces. Born in 1981 near Seoul, he studied Metal Art & Design at Hongik University and graduated in 2007; he cites his grandfather, a farmer who made household goods by hand, as his reference for approaching ordinary objects.

His work has been shown at Design Miami/Basel and the Saint-Étienne Biennale, and is held by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, SFMOMA, M+ and Leeum. He was nominated for Designer of the Future at Design Miami/Basel in 2009, named Artist of the Year by the Korean Ministry of Culture in 2011, and in 2025 joined Seoul furniture brand Wekino as creative director.