thomas@yangsdesign.com
As a new design studio, my current practice is one of uncovering the phenomena of making objects that become artifacts of the home. How do the completely ordinary objects of our everyday life become beautiful? My objects ask how we can learn of their meaning from our perception. My practice plays with the curiosity imbued by objects that pose questions, that pull you into their intentional details, and from afar become balanced in space.
Ways of Sitting - 2023
A Reading Space for One : A Library as a Bench -2022
A Love Letter to Isamu Noguchi -2022
The Weight of an Environment - 2022
Rigs and Jigs : Tools that make Tools that make Artifacts - 2022
Two States of a Rock - 2022
Corrugated : Paper Containers -2022
Where Water Comes From : A Drinking Vessel - 2022
Lumiere : Carlore - 2021
Food Waste Moore Joint - 2021
2025-
Collectible Object Boutique
Collectible CURATED SECTION
Exquisite Corpse - Frederics and Mae
The Independents by Colony
Shelter by Afternoon Light
Lyle Gallery Gathered
2024 -
Colony Residency Show
The Crossroads ICFF - Rockwell
Earshot - NewYork
2023-
Wanted Design Launch Pad 2023
Facilisis: Ultricies Ornare Ligula
2021
Rhoncus Auctor Ornare; Tincidunt Tristique, Porta Libero
2020
by Kelly Pau
2025
‘ 386: A second NY design week’ , Magasin,
by Xavier Donnelly
2025
‘Sitting on Stones’ , Lebial,
by Leo Lei
2025
‘The Independents - Colony’ , Seen Today,
by Dave Pinter
2025
‘The Independents - Colony’ , ArchiPanic,
by Enrico Zilli
2025
‘ Decade of Design Showcased in Colony’s Exhibition The Independents’ , Design Milk,
by Leo Lei
2025
‘The Small Spaces Issue (Jan/Feb)’ , Dwell,
by Leonora Epstein
2025
‘ Rigs and Jigs Tools That Make Tools That Make Objects’ , MOLD,
by Madeleine Young
2024
‘ Sight Unseen Year Book’ , Sight Unseen,
by Monica K, Jill S
2024
‘ Designers in America Lack the Infrastructure to Help Build Their Businesses. A New Residency From Colony is Here to Help ’ , Sight Unseen,
by Deborah Shapiro
2024
‘ Apothecary Lamps, Shaker-Inspired Wall Hooks, and More Debut Collections’ , Curbed NY Mag,
by Natalia Torija
2024
‘ Colony’s Residency Returns With a Fresh Crop of Design Talents’ , Surface Mag,
by Ryan Waddoups
2024
‘ Colony Launches Four New Studios Through the Designers’ Residency’ , Design Milk,
by Kelly Beall
2024
‘ Designers showcase work "meant to be lived with" at Colony in New York’ , Dezeen,
by Adrian Madlener
2024
‘ Jia-Ciasa’ honours the mundanity of daily use objects with alterable attributes’ , StirPad,
by Almas Sadique
2024
‘ Must-see releases from Soho Home, noteworthy debuts at NeoCon and 3 Days of Design, and more’ , Business of Home,
by Caroline Biggs
2024
‘7 Emerging Designers Tell Their Stories’ , Hospitality Design,
by Stephanie Chen
2024
‘ Presenting the 2023 WantedDesign Manhattan’s Launch Pad Final Participants’ , Design Milk,
by Vy Yang
2023
‘Presenting the 2023 WantedDesign Manhattan’s Launch Pad Final Participants’ , Design Milk,
by Vy Yang
2023
‘Stone Brush’ by Thomas Yang and Makiah Roberts turns sweeping into meditation’ , StirWorld,
by Almas Sadique
2023
‘Stone Brush’ by Thomas Yang and Makiah Roberts turns sweeping into meditation’ , Designboom,
by Ravail Khan
2023
Last Updated 24.10.31
Material : Cherry, River Stone, Sterling Silver Flower Nails
Lead Time : One of a Kind
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The table is a garden, a place of beauty cultivated for its enjoyment. Sterling silver nails, hand-carved and cast with flower-shaped heads, abandon their function. Instead, they adorn the timber leg perched on a river stone, the table’s reminder that utility does not have to preclude beauty.
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Material : Pine, Maple, River Stone
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The Rocking Stool pulls you in by the river stone, which I carried from Trout Brook and carved to fit the centuries old reclaimed barn wood from northern Quebec. Referencing the timber framing method of Eastern Asian craft referred to as Ishibatate (standing on stones), this love letter to materials is also a transfer of knowledge.
Seen at The Independents - Colony 2025
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Material : White Oak, River Stone
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The stone is carved to fit the reclaimed white oak from off-cuts of an Amish wood mill. I am celebrating the stone’s natural form as a function. Felting the bottom profile of the stone to extend its rock-ability to any surface without causing damage. It is a marriage of form and function.
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Seat Height: 18.5”
Material : Wood, COM
Lead Time : 16 - 18 Weeks
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The Ama (Dining Chair), is the continuation of the Delicate but Tough (2024) side chair. This chair, Mouton Noir (Black Sheep) speaks to the life of my Ama. To her being told she wouldn’t find love because she was too tall. To her being othered by the places she lived. It speaks to her resilience, and her love. Refusing to other those around her as they did her. Shown in Blackened Ash and Bouclé.
Seen at Shelter by Afternoon Light 2025
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Material : Wood
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The Cross-Section Side Table is an exploration of material limits and the power of negative space. Balancing from a subtly off-center cross stem and floating leg, the side table showcases the strength of lightness. Shown in Speckled Maple.
Seen at Shelter by Afternoon Light 2025
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Material : Yame Kozo Hadaura Paper Laminated Beeswax, Bamboo String, Maple.
Lead Time : 6 - 8 Weeks
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A hand laminated paper shade in beeswax that lays upon a structural wooden frame. The paper and wax bonds to itself eliminating any need for glue. One ribbon of inlaid bamboo ribbing keeps the lantern’s form while allowing it to become animated by a breeze or passing body.
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Material : Yame Kozo Hadaura Paper, Bamboo String, Wood, White Ceramic.
Lead Time : 10 - 12 Weeks
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The Tian Den lighting series is named after Taiwanese sky lanterns. A hand-sewn paper shade lays upon a structural wooden frame whose bamboo ribbing keeps the lantern’s form while allowing it to become animated by a breeze or passing body. The Yame Kozo Hadaura paper absorbs daylight, revealing the frame and accentuating the vitality of the lamp when both lit and unlit. Delicate details—wood wire coverings, an elliptical base, and handmade white stone ceramic fixtures—transform the mundane task of changing a light bulb into a ritual of care.
Tian Den Series
Collection : Jia-Ciasa
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Material : Yame Kozo Hadaura Paper, Bamboo String, Wood, White Ceramic.
Lead Time : 10 - 12 Weeks
Price: Inquire
The Tian Den lighting series is named after Taiwanese sky lanterns. A hand-sewn paper shade lays upon a structural wooden frame whose bamboo ribbing keeps the lantern’s form while allowing it to become animated by a breeze or passing body. The Yame Kozo Hadaura paper absorbs daylight, revealing the frame and accentuating the vitality of the lamp when both lit and unlit. Delicate details—wood wire coverings, an elliptical base, and handmade white stone ceramic fixtures—transform the mundane task of changing a light bulb into a ritual of care.
Tian Den Series
Collection : Jia-Ciasa
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Material : Yame Kozo Hadaura Paper, Bamboo String, Wood, White Ceramic.
Lead Time : 10 - 12 Weeks
Price: Inquire
The Tian Den lighting series is named after Taiwanese sky lanterns. A hand-sewn paper shade lays upon a structural wooden frame whose bamboo ribbing keeps the lantern’s form while allowing it to become animated by a breeze or passing body. The Yame Kozo Hadaura paper absorbs daylight, revealing the frame and accentuating the vitality of the lamp when both lit and unlit. Delicate details—wood wire coverings, an elliptical base, and handmade white stone ceramic fixtures—transform the mundane task of changing a light bulb into a ritual of care.
Tian Den Series
Collection : Jia-Ciasa
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Material : Wood
Lead Time : One of a Kind
Price: Inquire
The Ama Chair is a delicate balance of opposing forces. The chair’s joinery pushes and pulls—with, and against—to create moments of stillness. Yang’s Ama, Chin Yin Wu, was an artist, a mother, a daughter, and a sister. Kind but stern, delicate but tough, thoughtful but clumsy, serious but funny; a study in balance. This chair is one interpretation of the designer’s grandmother, with many more to come.
Collection : Jia-Ciasa
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Material : Wood
Lead Time : 16 - 18 Weeks
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Built from the nostalgia for intersecting cultures, the Cabinet of Memories is based on the proportions of a traditional East-Asian cabinet. The cabinet’s devotion to daily objects is found in its reinterpreted design; book splines celebrate the craft of a publication’s spine while varying sizes of drawers and doors wrap the cabinet. Intended to hold space for long-term care of objects, the Cabinet of Memories is derived from recollections of Yang’s own family heirlooms.
Collection : Jia-Ciasa
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