Get to know one of our partners, Towan Kim in this month’s Designer Diaries!
Kukio
1) What is your favorite BHD project (either that you have worked on or not)?
I just couldn’t pick one… so here are three
This project was a turning point for me, trained as an architect, and helped me embrace Interior Design to the full extent. It occurred to me that the interior should not be an afterthought, but an inspiration at the onset of the project to culminate in an overall success. It certainly helped to have an amazing team working together on this one and I can proudly say it finished out beautifully.
Avow
Every challenge in this project became a design opportunity
Jackson Street
This project reveals the recipe for how BraytonHughes creates spaces. It combined the architecture, interiors and objet d’art effortlessly and it came together in a uniquely urban and sophisticated ensemble.
2) What is your favorite design product?
I’m a big fan of a ‘Bulldog clip’. Use it every day.
3) What (or who) inspired you to be a designer?
My grandmother. Starting at an early age I would rearrange everything around me and once finished I’d find myself restarting the process all over again. My grandmother pointed out that there is a profession for people like me. Nowadays, I draw first before moving anything.
Side note. I would, if I could, live in a place that’s surrounded by E. J. Ruhlmann’s furniture in Molino’s interiors with Scarpa’s details in Zumthor’s building, somewhere along the Mediterranean…
Sketches – Ruhlmann + Interiors – Ruhlmann Carlo Mollino - Wikipedia
Carlo Scarpa - Wikipedia Peter Zumthor - projects
4) If you could have dinner with any 3 people dead or alive who would they be?
Botticelli, David Bowie, Miles Davis with his trumpet
5) What is your most used emoji?
I don’t like emojis, not yet anyways ; )
6) What are you streaming right now?
Premier League, UEFA Champions League and plenty of S. Korean shows.
7) What is your favorite snack food?
Apples, the ones in season! Also, I’m trying to eat more chocolate.
8) If you could teleport somewhere right now where would you go?
Bottom of the ocean. I imagine it being wondrous and extraordinary. I would be speechless.
9) In a parallel universe, what is your profession?
Yoga Instructor by day, Jazz musician by night? or Truffle hunter!
10) Coffee or Tea? How do you take it?
Americano. I take it piping hot. Also, green tea before coffee.