Singchan

Singchan Design is a studio in Guangzhou founded in 2020 by Sing Chan, also known as Chen Xingyu, working across lighting, furniture and objects. Its method is to look for forms across civilisations and periods and rebuild them for the present, so that a piece reads at once as contemporary object and as distant cultural memory.

The Fragment collection, shown at Alcova during Milan Design Week 2024, is built from polished stainless steel and rectilinear glass, assembled into floor, pendant and wall lights whose reflection and shadow do the work of decoration. Chan grew up in Panyu, the old port district of Guangzhou, among hills, workshops and abandoned buildings — a landscape of craft and decay that still drives his questions about what urbanisation keeps and erases. Pieces are made in small runs and sold through galleries and showrooms.