Hyfen / HCWD Studio

Exploring new possibilities of human behaviors through object & space design.

Hyfen is a design collection of home goods, furniture, lighting and accessories, created and curated by HCWD Studio and collaborated designers worldwide, focusing on bridging human sense, physics, material and geometry, looking into the essence of routine subjects, extracting the critical elements from others, and linking them together to create strange-familiar new objects that recompose how we interact with environment and daily life.

Hsin-Chun Wang & Ye Liu, founders of Hyfen, are based in New York City. They are one of the 50 Young Professionals of Red Dot 2016, 2016 Best Designers/Best Design Studio from International Furniture Fair Singapore and the nominees of German Design Awards 2016. Their studio practices in art, furniture, lighting and space design. Their works strike to rediscover the using experience of daily object, and redefine the relationship between human scale, space and landscape. They work at the intersection of functionality and sensibility, dedicate to integrate elegant form with sense. They refine details and follow the nature of material with challenging ideas to create design with meanings and to provide solution for improving.

Three key words: minimal, elegant, intuitive

Team Leaders

Ye Liu

Founder and Creative Director of HCWD Studio. She received a B.A. Degree from Tongji University and a M.ARCH degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. During the career in China, Ye worked for Ai Weiwei from 2005 to 2007 and then joined Arata Isozaki Associates as an architect. After that, she became the senior project designer at Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects and took the lead of several development projects at East Nanjing Road in Shanghai. After came to US and graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art, she went to RTKL Washington DC Office and Tsao & McKown Architects in New York. She worked and participated in architectural and interior projects from the US, Brazil, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Ye’s exhibition design project, when she was at Tsao & McKown, Beauty – Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial was on view at Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in 2016. She was invited as guest critic at many universities and also teaches at University of the Arts as Lecturer of Master’s Product Design.

HsinChun Wang

Born and raised in Taiwan, HsinChun Wang enjoys experiencing different lives and cultures, favorites in contemporary art and logical thinking. After received B.S. degree in Industrial Design in National Cheng Kung University, he worked for DID Institute as industrial designer in Taipei from 2002 to 2005, then came to US for further studying in art and design at Cranbrook Academy of Art. From 2010, he worked as senior industrial designer for Zeikos Inc., at the same time started his own practice in design and had his works selected to exhibit in Frankfurt, Taipei, Michigan, New York, and Shanghai, in 2014, he co-founded HCWD Studio. He also teaches at University of the Arts as Program Director of Master’s Product Design.

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