Lab.crete

LAB.CRETE is a craft and design studio founded by designer Hyunjae Lee and artist Hyoungsul Kim in Seoul. The name joins the -crete of concrete with the lab- of laboratory, which describes the method literally: objects are developed experimentally, with the material treated as a field of tests rather than a fixed finish.

The studio analyses an object the way an architect plans and constructs a building — as architects design a space for human, we design a space for object. That thinking produces furniture, lighting and sculptural pieces such as Strata, Phenomenon and TOPO-Landscape, shown at DDP Design Fair, London Design Fair, Platform-L and the Hanyang University Museum, and in collaborations with brands and galleries in Korea.