Looking to upgrade your garden with a durable evergreen shrub that provides year-round interest and doesn’t require the backbreaking labor of higher-maintenance plants, such as roses or hedges?Look no further than heavenly bamboo.We link to
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Home Away From Home is a series that spotlights BIPOC brands that are adding a cultural essence to everyday items. This allows anyone to always have a piece of their culture in their own space without ever feeling homesick or out of touch with their roots. We're exploring the stories of the individuals behind the brands that have touched people's hearts through their products and have allowed people to feel at home anywhere.
Sharon Lee comes from a lineage of skilled artists who have preserved Korean folk art techniques and symbolism. She knew it was her own personal destiny from a young age to continue the tradition—but in her own creative way. Lee, a Korean-American fine artist and interior designer, created Krane Home as a means to share Korean art through her own unique artistic interpretations of animals and nature.
Lee thoughtfully curates each of her products by creating meaning in every detail that's drawn, so it feels both personal to the client who is hanging up her artwork and the room that's surrounded by her ornate wallpaper. Not only is she sharing the beauty of Korean folk art—she is teaching others to design with intention.
SL: My mother and grandfather are Korean artists—my mother is an accredited Korean folk art painter in Korea. Her pieces have become family heirlooms—she does not sell them because they take so long, and they're actually keeping the ancient techniques of Korean folk art alive. All of the paintings she does are reproductions of ancient pieces.
It's done exactly the same way as it was done hundreds of years ago during the Joseon Dynasty. For example, she grinds her ink on an ink stone, crumbles up seashells for white color, and makes orange-yellow from a petrified root.
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Looking to upgrade your garden with a durable evergreen shrub that provides year-round interest and doesn’t require the backbreaking labor of higher-maintenance plants, such as roses or hedges?Look no further than heavenly bamboo.We link to
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