Our project for Shepard’s Studio and Office is featured in Interior Design Magazine’s August Issue…

We are co-hosting a 4th of July design mixer for the LinkedIn Industrial Design Group with Curedale Inc. If you are in Los Angeles come and join designers from the fields of industrial design, architecture, automotive, product, and graphic design at our studio on Saturday between 1-6pm. Thanks to generous support from our friends at Evil Monito Magazine.

WHEN:
From 1.00pm July 4th 2009

WHERE:
YEH STUDIO - LOS ANGELES
1064 Myra Avenue
Los Angeles California 90029
tel / fax : 800.282.7194

RSVP:
Rob Curedale
rob@curedale.com

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Sponsors:

Senior Principal: Raymond Yeh, Managing Principal: Bryant Yeh
Design Team: Ha-Vi Tran, Casey Benito, Kelly Anderson, Tharathorn Suksuri

Structural Engineer: Gordon L. Polon
Contractor: James Harrison - Art of Building

Lighting: W. A. C. Lighting
Furniture Fabrication:  Levi Brewster
Specialty and Custom Fabrication:  Barnacle Brothers, Alessandro Thompson

Photos (c) Yeh Studio, Stephen Schauer, Joshua White

Our work is almost complete on an interior warehouse renovation for Sony’s Gran Turismo Explore Studio. The space functions as a design studio and designers administrative office as well as a showcase and event space for Sony Polyphony Digital’s Gran Tursimo unit. Open studio space features a custom kitchen and conference room and space for some fast cars.

Fabrication for our custom designed workspace furniture is almost complete and ready for site installation. We’ve been working on producing a complete line of creative workspace furniture for office and studio furnishing applications. Our line will be a suite of modular pieces that will work in a variety of creative workspace and studio settings: Video / Audio production, Media production and general office applications. Here’s a preview:

We hosted the MIT Alumni Club of Southern California’s architecture alumni event: Greening Tech Campus, Greening the World - A lecture and presentation given by Professor Leon Glicksman. Professor Glicksman has worked on research and consulting related to energy-efficient building components and design, indoor air flow and indoor air quality. His presentation summarizes his work as the chair of an MIT effort to develop energy-efficient, sustainable building technologies and compatible designs.

Located in a period 1930’s building in Echo Park Los Angeles the OBEY Building houses artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey’s studio, design agency and art gallery.

Our goal was to create cohesive functional spaces with common design elements for each of the different parts of Shepard’s studio, gallery and design offices. One of the challenges was to integrate and organize the various public and private functions from production, design, and administrative areas together as a functional whole. The original existing two level building was an amalgamation of old renovations from the 1930s thru to the 70s and had no floor to floor connection so a stairwell was an integral part of our scheme -we created a birch paneled stair well that connects the upper level administrative area to the lower gallery, conference, and print shipping areas.

The interior finishes and custom designed furniture for each of the areas were designed to complement Shepard and Amanda’s design aesthetic but not be a distraction. The main open design studio was created by structurally re-configuring and exposing the timber roof beams to make a larger space. Plywood and weathered steel modular desk and storage units allow the design studio and production areas to be flexible and functional. A custom layout and table integrates a light box and art material storage and large plywood tables in the conference rooms double as layout tables for print and artwork. The gallery space functions as a series of display rooms connected by a hallway and terminating at a reception bar and gallery retail counter and display at each end.

We took care to maintain and integrate many of the old existing interior details with the new spaces that were created. 60’s ceiling molding and arches were contrasted with plywood floors, weathered steel and birch wall surfaces. An existing old chandelier was re-purposed to light the main internal stairwell. Many of the materials that we chose were also for their environmental qualities; sustainably harvested plywood with low VOC finish stains and second generation steel elements were used throughout the spaces.

Working with Shepard and his team was for one fun. He and Amanda are amazing people that are committed to bettering our lives through art and of course Shepard’s iconic design sensibilities. Shepard and Amanda genuinely understand and appreciate the value of design and working with them allowed us to take inventive leaps that conventional clients would not really be open to and really made the process personally satisfying.

Yeh Studio

This project came from two sources of inspiration: our love of suprematist graphic design and reclaimed wood.

We designed a series of interchangable graphic patterns and inlaid it into reclaimed 1920s douglas-fir. The stripes are machine routed into the wood and then filled with tinted resin and hand finished. Each bench is unique in its pattern and color combination.

We are now distributing the benches in a limited run with select color and wood combinations. Contact us at: info [at] yehstudio dot com to order one.

Our Entropy Objects creative workspace furnishings grew out of a suite of custom designed pieces that we created for the offices of a west coast production company. We wanted to create a line of creative workspace furniture that incorporated re-purposed and re-claimed materials -and has a more distinct design identity in contrast to the ubiquitous conventional mid-century throwback designs that populate creative workspaces. We developed the individual pieces in conjunction with our partner Alessandro Thompson into a line of furnishings that are perfect for creative workspaces as well as the homefront.

ENTROPY CREDENZA

The clean lines, warm natural surfaces and extensive use of re-claimed and re-purposed materials highlight our effort to remake the world of common objects into something different. All of the units are handmade in Los Angeles from reclaimed and refinished steel and FSC certified woods.

ENTROPY DESK

Our Media and Video Editing Desk features a poured resin table-top and custom media cabinet to conceal system components.  ENTROPY MEDIA DESK

A private residence that overlooks the ocean south of Morro Bay. We designed the house as an open rectangular cube with a public and a private facade. The narrow front facade faces the street and the open long facade looks into an enclosed yard and garden area. Uninterrupted views of the bay and surrounding coast are visible from the upper level.  A generous wide hallway on the ground level provides room for family activities and informal social gatherings to happen with open views to the garden. Slated for completion in 10′.