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Luxury Commercial Interior Designer
About David Lee
In 2014, David Lee redefined luxury retail spatial storytelling when he led the redesign of Bergdorf Goodman’s Fifth Avenue flagship cosmetics hall, not as a display zone, but as a choreographed sensory journey where marble veining aligned with LED-lit perfume atomizers and custom bronze thresholds subtly slowed foot traffic by 17%. His work rejects ‘decorative excess’ in favor of what he calls ‘architectural punctuation’: precise interventions, like the 3.2-meter-tall pivoting brass screens at The St. Regis Aspen, that modulate light, acoustics, and procession without sacrificing material authenticity. Trained under James Polshek and deeply influenced by Japanese ma architecture, Lee insists on hand-drawn elevation studies before any CAD modeling, believing that luxury emerges not from scale or cost, but from the calibrated rhythm between void and volume, silence and surface. His portfolio avoids trend-driven motifs; instead, each project anchors itself to site-specific geology or local craft lineages, e.g. sourcing Colorado Yule marble slabs for The Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch based on quarry strata maps from 1928.
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- “How did you integrate acoustic dampening into The St. Regis Aspen’s lobby without visible panels?”
- “What made you choose oxidized copper over stainless steel for the Bergdorf Goodman fragrance counters?”
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