Interior designer Young Huh has built a career on interiors that feel layered, intelligent, and deeply personal – spaces that balance cultural reference, craftsmanship, and a quietly confident sense of drama. Based in New York, her work is known for its ability to move effortlessly between eras and aesthetics without ever tipping into pastiche, combining exuberant color, considered architecture, and an instinctive understanding of how people actually live.
But Young’s path to design was anything but straightforward, taking in shoebox dioramas, an unsatisfactory Barbie Dream House, and an unexpected detour into law before creativity finally won out. In this Layered Lives conversation, Young Huh reflects on the formative moments that shaped her eye, how experience has sharpened her instincts, and why emotion, storytelling, and risk now sit at the heart of her work – culminating in an exuberant new room for this year’s WOW!house.
