Design Awards Winners

2025

Design has the power to shape not only the spaces we inhabit, but the ways we care for ourselves and one another.

The inaugural NeueHouse Design Awards—presented in partnership with Shinola and LA Design Festival, recognize work that reimagines how we live, rest, gather and grow.

Selected from a field of visionary finalists, this year's honorees reflect our core values: clarity, craft, and purpose.

Join us in celebrating the winners and explore their work.

Honorable Mentions:
Kenneth Garnett, Genesis Collection
Anthony Newman, The Grotto
Aaron van Shaik, Superbungalows on Marathon Street

THE LUMINARIES

Desk Lamp

Living WINNER

The Luminaries is a collection of sculptural lamps created as a quiet dialogue between Earth and cosmos.

Each piece feels like a signal — grounding, glowing, and a little otherworldly. I hand-build them in my Los Angeles studio using ceramic, brass, and handmade paper, layering texture, light, and form to create something that feels ancient and new at once. Every lamp is one-of-a-kind. The ceramic bases are stacked like relics, each glazed with formulas I developed through years of testing. The paper shades are sculpted by hand from kozo and mulberry fibers, glowing like moons or weathered clouds. Together, they hold the tension between weight and lightness, between matter and breath. This collection is shaped by a lifelong curiosity about the universe — from physics to philosophy, from clay to silence. These lamps are not just functional objects. They’re meant to shift the feeling in a space. To ground it. To open it. The Luminaries is for spaces that value presence. For people who notice texture and care about how things are made. Each piece is slow, intentional, and infused with a sense of stillness — a soft reminder of something we’ve forgotten… or haven’t yet remembered.

HANCOCK PARK HOUSE

Home Design

ENVIRONMENT WINNER

Designed by Leong-Leong, the Hancock Park House is the home of Esther Kim and Joseph Varet, founders of Various Small Fires, a contemporary art gallery with locations in Los Angeles, Dallas and Seoul. They sought to renovate their 1970s ranch-style home into a space that not only served as a domestic residence for their family of four, but as a space for institutional-minded programming as well. As Leong-Leong’s first freestanding residence, this 6,000 square-foot space in Los Angeles offers a hybrid typology: a serene indoor/ outdoor suburban sanctuary for living with art.

SALT STONE

Halotherapy Machine

Wellbeing WINNER

Salt Stone is a home halogenerator for daily respiratory therapy. It delivers the core functionality of traditional halogenerators — micronizing medical-grade salt and dispersing it as a breathable dry salt aerosol — but in a radically smaller, user-friendly form. Precision- engineered components ensure consistent particle size and concentration, making it suitable for personal inhalation and aligned with clinical halotherapy principles.