YENCHEN & YAWEN
Yen Chen and Ya-Wen both graduated from Royal College of Art in Design Product and Textile in 2014 and 2012. Yen Chen is interested in how material, craft, and computing technology could come together to influence design and Ya Wen’s area of expertise is creating innovative rich combinations of various raw materials and colors.
Their works merge between craft and technology and focus on curating lifestyle and enrich aesthetics of life through their creation.
Yenchenyawen Studio Based in London and Taipei, the studio designs and makes handcrafted objects in which unorthodox material combinations are manipulated by traditional and experiment founded in 2015
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