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LIVING BY DESIGN

For interior designer Leonard Lee, each of his projects begins with a story. “I see design as a way of bringing people on an emotional journey,” says the regional managing director and creative officer for Asia-Pacific at interior architectural firm, Wilson Associates. Leonard has been with the company for nearly two decades, during which he has built an impressive portfolio of projects with big hospitality names the likes of Ritz-Carlton, Shangri-La, Capella and Conrad.

And like Italian carmaker Maserati, whose inventive designs exude both elegance and sportiness at once, Leonard seeks to challenge the status quo through his work. With hotels, for example, “it’s not about the start and end of a guest’s journey as much as it is about what happens in between”, he explains. “So what we try

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