ELLE Decor Celebrates the Best of AAPI Design
In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, we’re giving a special shout-out to stellar work by Asian and Asian-American designers. Max Burkhalter / William Abranowicz
May marks Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month; each year, the monthlong celebration offers a chance to spotlight the diverse design talent and perspectives of this community. Recent months have also seen a swell in anti-Asian violence in the United States, lending even greater urgency to questions of representation and making this year’s AAPI Heritage Month feel more important than ever. Though every month is a month to highlight the stellar work done by Asian and Asian-American designers, we’re giving a special shout-out this May to the stunning interior design projects by AAPI creatives that have been published online and in our pages. Come on in and look around, won’t you?
Amanda Gunawan of OWIU Design turns a cookie-cutter space into an Asian-inflected haven with an industrial edge.
In 2019, architect Amanda Gunawan chanced upon a corner unit in the Biscuit Company Lofts, which originally served as the West Coast headquarters for the National Biscuit Company better known as Nabisco in Downtown Los Angeles’s Arts District.
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The new American architecture and design studio Inflexion Builds has converted a garage in Los Angeles into a miniature gym on the basis of the concept of the ADU: Accessory Dwelling Unit. The gym meets the needs of a young couple of home-fitness influencers arising out of lifestyle changes due to the pandemic.
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Inflexion Builds’ Wellington Gym
Other photos. More than a year has gone by since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and we have seen a lot of
changes in the world of architecture. The fact that we have had to limit the radius of our actions to a small area around our homes for several months has revealed how inappropriate our homes can be for responding to these new requirements, particularly when we do everything at home, from schooling our children to working in a home office.