DESIGNERS WE LOVE: AMY LAU

Amy Lau opened her eponymous firm in 2001 in New York City and has since been creating unique and lively interiors. Lau has been lauded by the top interior design awards and publications for her residences. Her spaces look to the future and quote the past, with forms and textures that simultaneously reflect nature and evoke the future. Like much of mid century design, Lau’s work balances this place in time and texture, mixing sleek, perfectly formed pieces with natural materials. Her tight color schemes create spaces that look like they deliberately and specifically belong together.

Natural, organic forms and textures are seen in all of Lau’s work. This is reflected in instances such as the underside of an Eame’s chair, hardwood millwork, or a stone basin sink. Pieces like a Noguchi coffee table, a sculptural lamp, or a Kagan sofa echo the free flowing lines of nature but with restraint— mediated nature. This is how this kind of design rides the line between natural and artificial, antique and futuristic. The color schemes keep within this restraint and create and even more refined design.

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