Lynne Chan Style and Design

Designing for Richard Christiansen of Chandelier Creative always guarantees working out of the ‘left-field’ side of the brain. This week’s challenge was to help bring his already over-the-top 80’s Baroque-Goth-Chinoise-style apartment to the next level. This included designing asymmetrical gloss-black cabinetry, giving red shellac to a 1000-crystal chandelier, lacquering fifty porcelain figurines from the Cultural Revolution, and finding practically every red Chinese cookbook ever published! You can read the full article at New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/homedesign/greatrooms/richard-christiansen-2012-3/

Yarn bombing is no longer just the domain of renegade crafters and guerrilla knitters, but that’s practically what it took to make this campaign for luxury department store Lane Crawford. I set designed and styled this shoot with photographer Bela Borsodi. Good taste comes from somewhere, and so we bonded over German industrial music, Throbbing Gristle, and Kleenex Liliput. Sometimes you just can’t judge a luxury goods photographer by his cover! With just a week to create all of these props, I worked with a swat team of knitters, crafters, crocheters, and builders to create these incredible results here. Yarnbomb Mozart found a place back home on my bookshelf.

I had the opportunity to design the graphics and set backdrops for Bloomingdale’s Nifty Gifty Holiday Catalog. Taking inspiration from the Op Art and Pop Art sensibilities of Bridget Riley and Roy Lichtenstein, I used dots, optical patterns, lines, and pop colors to create these bold, whimsical backgrounds.

Behind the scenes rigging for Asprey’s catalog with Gregoire Alexandre and Janine Trott. Nothing a little hot glue, duct tape, monofilament, wax, gel, florist wire, and high powered fans can’t fix.

Miss Piggy: Style Icon

Westin hotels launched this campaign, offering a new level of luxury, comfort and fantasy. A floating bed of clouds drifts by full of objects, a girl mixes a giant cocktail poolside,  a woman sleeps in the lightest mattress made of helium balloons, and time seems to suspend on the golf course. I assisted set designer Amy Henry for this shoot with photographer Gregoire Alexandre. It was an incredibly complex shoot with a crew of 6 people to set up elaborate rigging. Lots of hard work, but it came out looking great.

Installation views, Bergdorf window for Alexander McQueen.

You would never guess that Land’s End Summer Catalog was shot in a 24-inch January blizzard. But a production halts for no one, not even when Mother Nature knocked over a massive 50 ft. tree RIGHT in front of our our Brooklyn location! Our incredible trucking crew arrived at 7am to shovel and clear the road, even hand-sawing tree limbs out of the way. Truly impressive! Everything went without a hitch, with the FDNY arriving later to finally clear the rest of the street.