The Weight of Air

 Experiment, for Kwangho Lee, is an ongoing condition rather than a fixed method. In Lightful, created for Bottega Venetaand presented during Milan Design Week, leather is pushed through the house’s Intrecciato weave until it begins to behave in less predictable ways.

Trained at Hongik University, Lee works by subtly unsettling established techniques. His ongoing collaboration with Bottega Veneta—now in its third iteration, and informed by time spent at its atelier in Montebello Vicentino—reflects a balance between precision and disruption, where tradition is tested rather than preserved intact.

Suspended woven forms, varying in density and scale, are arranged without a fixed center, their final composition shaped on site. Light shifts across their surfaces, altering how they are perceived throughout the day. The result feels less like a finished object than an experiment still in progress, quietly adjusting in response to space and viewer alike.