South Korean designer/artist Sisan Lee(1995) majored Spatial design and founded Studio LEESISAN in 2018, a design practice that makes a various objects such as furniture, lighting and sculpture.


WORKS
Proportions of Stone
Stone Pagoda
Stone Tray
Neo-Primitive
Equilibrium
Inlay
Side
X Chair

PROJECTS
Installation for 999 HUMANITY
Installation for RIMOWA in Seoul
OBSCURA Pop up store
OMAR AFRIDI ‘Primitive Tech’
RIMOWA ‘As seen by’
OBSCURA store in Dosan
Installation for KASE
Installation for GYUBAN
OBSCURA store in Seoungsu
Object for HYUNDAI
Floating stone for a Private Client
Semi Cylinder for W Office

PRESS
INFORMATION
INSTAGRAMS

Inlay

Designed with Sipyeong Lee

Stainless Steel / Vegetable Leather
W 50 × D 35 × H 40 (cm)
W 120 × D 40 × H 40 (cm)
2020

‹Inlay› is a technique that inserts various unique materials into the concave surface of the original object. Using inlay technique, we combined leather and iron plates, two contrasting materials, into a single surface. The user can separate this furniture that seems to be one unit into two units for their convenience. Also over time the inlaid leather on the upper part of the furniture grows darker drastically compared to the leather on the side part of the cut section, due to the user's contact and the environment. Through such changes and contrasts, we wanted to show the relationship between these two very different materials.

After a year, Steel and leather make up the same surface, but unlike artificially processed steel, the leather naturally changed in tone due to a year of aging. You can also see that the outer leather is in a more tanned condition than the inner leather. Along with ‘contrast between different two materials’, ‘contrast within the same materials’ was the core of the work, and as time passed by, the visual of the work became clearer as intended.
Mark