Noted furnishings and interiors designer Jiun Ho announces his first textile collection, Jiun Ho Textile, available through Jiun Ho representative showrooms in major markets—initially Holland & Sherry in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, DC.

A passionate designer and traveler, Jiun Ho is spiritually and artistically inspired by the world’s incredible diversity of landscapes and cultures. Jiun Ho Textile captures the beauty of global terrains and peoples. Many of the designs are deft adaptations from the designer’s own photography.

This initial launch of the collection, titled Salar, numbers twenty unique designs and 132 SKU—many colors in each pattern. The first spark of inspiration for them arose during Jiun Ho’s travels in South America, specifically to the salt flats and deserts of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, with their strikingly colored red lakes, flamingos, skies, and pampas.

The materials range from linn to cotton, velvet, chenille, and satin, using fibers of the highest quality, and can be used in a variety of applications, from window treatments to furniture upholstery. In the manufacturing, Jiun Ho is closely collaborating with leading mills in Italy and beyond.

The collection will soon grow to encompass many more unique designs, grouped into families based on the geographical region of their inspiration. It will include hundreds of distinct colorways, including many different neutrals, allowing for innumerable color combinations.

Jiun Ho came to the United States from his native Malaysia to study design and worked for several leading interior design firms before opening his own studio in San Francisco fifteen years ago. He quickly became known for his sensuous interiors that combine a minimal aesthetic and global inspirations. This led to to Jiun Ho’s furniture and lighting collections, now offered in multiple showrooms throughout the United States.

Working out of his San Francisco gallery, Jiun Ho de Jia, the designer and his team are surrounded by art, objects, and antiques from throughout the world. The gallery also provides a showcase for Jiun Ho’s ever-evolving signature collections. Visitors have the opportunity to acquire pieces unobtainable anywhere else.

Jiun Ho has been nominated for an Interior Design Best of Year award, and his designs have been published in Elle Decor, Interiors, the New York Times, Luxe, Architectural Digest, and numerous other publications in the United States and internationally. He has been invited to participate in leading show houses and to take part in design forums, panel presentations, and other special events around the world.

New York: Jiun Ho Inc. and Michael Steinberg Fine Art are pleased to announce Hand Over Hand, the debut of an on-going series of art exhibitions to be curated by Michael Steinberg and hosted by Jiun Ho @ Dennis Miller NY. The opening reception will take place on May 22nd, 2017 from 5:30 – 8:00 PM.

 Hand Over Hand features the work of five artists, Cora Cohen, Larry Poons, Stephen Pusey, Brie Ruais and Kikuo Saito, all of whose works make manifest the hand of the artist. While sharing many qualities - gestural, tactile, lyrical and expressive - the selected works demonstrate a diverse sampling of the nearly endless varieties of mark making found in contemporary art. As an exhibition, Hand Over Hand is also transgenerational with artists ranging in age from thirty-five to eighty.

 Cora Cohen was born in Manhattan in 1943, Her work draws from contemporary urban and philosophical sources. Her paintings, altered x-rays, and drawings are based on seemingly contradictory ways of seeing and making. As acts of erasure follow figuration, discernible imagery gives way to uncertainty, waywardness, and displacement.

 Cohen’s first major solo exhibition was held at the Everson Museum of Art in 1974. She became increasingly interested in the notion of painting informed by a world outside of the self-reflexive concerns of modernism and postmodernism and during this period made paintings that affirmed the medium’s capacity to extend beyond a rectilinear format. A traveling exhibition, Cora Cohen: paintings and altered x-rays 1983-1996, and additional solo and group exhibitions, brought her critical recognition in the United States and Europe.

 Larry Poons is an abstract painter who was born in Tokyo, Japan. He rose to prominence in the 1960s with paintings of circles and ovals on solid—often brilliantly colored—backgrounds. His work moved away from the optical art towards looser and more painterly abstract canvases. His work is associated with Op Art, Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism.

 He was given his first one-man exhibition in 1963 at Richard Bellamy’s famed Green Gallery, and in 1965 his work was included in MoMA’s celebrated exhibition, "The Responsive Eye." In 1969, Poons was the youngest artist featured in curator Henry Geldzahler’s landmark survey, "New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940-1970." In 1981 the MFA Boston organized an exhibition of his paintings from the 1970s. The work of Larry Poons is included in major museum and private collections throughout the United States and abroad.

 Stephen Pusey was born in London and graduated from St. Martins School of Art. In 1986, he exhibited at PS1 (MoMA PS1) after which New York became his domicile. During the following years, Pusey experimented with various forms including digital and networked media.

Concurrent with his explorations in the digital realm, Pusey continued exhibiting and working with physical material. Between 2003 and 2004, he exhibited a 9 x 20 foot Abstract graphite mural at the Slought Foundation, Philadelphia. The following year his Abstract paintings and graphite installations were shown at Hermes, New York. The artist has had various solo and group exhibitions in New York City and internationally including Michael Steinberg Fine Art and, in 2013, at Guided by Voices.

 Brie Ruais was born in 1982, in Southern California. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Merging the movements and weight of her body with hunks of clay, Brie Ruais stomps, kicks, stretches, wedges, rakes, and pulls this earthy material into abstract, organic forms that serve as beguilingly beautiful records of her actions. Listing Ana Mendieta and feminist theory as influences, she sees her work as a feminist version of Richard Serra’s. Ruais’s projects begin with a set of instructions, which she carries out quickly, infusing the clay with the energy of her process. With heavily worked surfaces finished with richly colored glazes, her pieces recall landscapes, abstract paintings, and the contours of the body itself.

 Ruais had solo exhibitions at Nicole Klagbrun Gallery and Mesler/Feuer in New York and participated in group exhibitions at the American University Museum, in Washington D.C and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA.

 Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1939 and moved to New York City in 1966. His knowledge of choreography and stage direction have directly influence his approach to painting. Typically, he painted on the floor, circling and moving over the canvas to create each composition. The resultant works are rhythmic, gestural and expressionistic. His rich constellations of gestural works offer deliberate evidence of the artist’s hand. Shifts in density, scale, tone, and intensity of strokes suggest that each gesture occupies an individual position.

Saito has had solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His work is included in in public and private collections such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; Duke University Museum of Art, North Carolina; AT&T Collection, New York; Estee Lauder Collection, New York; J.P. Morgan Chase Collection, New York and the World Bank, Washington, D.C.

 The innovative and multi-disciplinary Jiun Ho Inc, founded by Jiun Ho, includes Jiun Ho Furniture, Jiun Ho Light, Jiun Ho Textile, Jiun Ho Interiors and Jiun Ho de Jia, a gallery and atelier that showcase Jiun’s hand-selected art and antiques. In 2016, the Company launched Jiun Ho @ Dennis Miller NY followed by Jiun Ho Chicago. These expediential showrooms blend the line between a traditional showroom and residence, integrating artwork, ceramics, and antiquities

 Jiun is celebrated for translating a minimal aesthetic with a global worldview, extensive travel, modern and elemental materials, contrasting textures and clean lines inform his original, balanced and harmonious designs. He is the recipient of numerous awards and his products and interiors have been published in leading national and international publications. His designs are available in premiere showrooms throughout the United States, Canada and select international locations.

 Michael Steinberg Fine Art is a curatorial, art advisory and publishing company based in New York City. Steinberg draws on fifty years of experience in the New York gallery world. His interests and expertise extend from established post-war artists through the most contemporary emerging careers and ranges through all media from painting, works on paper, sculpture and installation to photography and digital media.

(December 15, 2016) – The Mariaflora brand of outdoor fabrics will present an Africa-themed collection from California designer and inveterate traveler Jiun Ho, an intriguing – if not entirely unique collaboration – that will be unveiled at Paris Deco Off, January 19 to 23, 2017.

There are five patterns in Mariaflora’s Africa Collection, and three of them will actually be shown on Jiun Ho’s furniture designs during Paris Deco Off.  The collection will be displayed along with new Filippo Uecher fabrics in two Left Bank showrooms laid out by Jiun to have a seamless flow. The showrooms are entered at 53 rue de Seine.

Mariaflora is a brand of high-end outdoor fabrics woven at a mill owned and operated by the Filippo Uecher family in the mountains of Italy. Africa represents Mariaflora’s first collaboration with an outside designer.

“Filippo and I share an interest in traveling the world, and we have love for the continent of Africa – South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,” says Jiun. “I have had the urge to design a fabric collection for the longest time, and to collaborate with Mariaflora was the perfect solution.”

Named after some of the most exclusive game reserves in Botswana, one of Jiun’s favorite safari destinations, the fabric patterns depict a stylized version of the plains, desert, dry rocks and riverbeds of Africa.  

Mariaflora’s Africa Collection will include five patterns: Mombo, Jao, Linyanti, Vumbura and Okavango. Each pattern will be offered in six colors: Terracotta, Green, Blue, Turquoise, Grey/Charcoal, and White/Beige.

“Red is not the most common color to see in outdoor fabrics but we came up with a golden red that reminds of African sunsets,” says Jiun, adding, “The tactile quality of the fabrics is remarkable. They are beautifully woven and soft to the touch.”  

Woven on both dobby and jacquard looms, Mariaflora textiles are directed towards the residential market, though the brand has been used in both hospitality and commercial settings. The fabrics are woven with 100% Solution Dyed Acrylic at Mariaflora’s mill in Biella, Italy. 

Filippo Uecher will also be presenting two new collections made entirely of natural fiber:

• Tintoretto – four new stripe patterns woven in 100% linen. The quality of fabric will be similar to the Bernini Collection introduced last fall.
• Donatello – geometric designs woven on jacquard looms, including a new houndstooth construction in linen and cotton and raffia woven in cotton/linen.

BACKGROUND

Jiun Ho is renowned for his sensuous interiors and furniture that blend his minimal aesthetic with global inspirations. Jiun has traveled to over 110 countries, and fuses his firsthand experiences with the art and design of these cultures into his work. His passion for travel, great food and fine wine inspired him to create a lifestyle exploration gallery/showroom/studio in San Francisco that boasts art, objects and antiques from around the world and provides visitors a look at the global cultures that have inspired Jiun throughout his career.

Filippo Uecher has been weaving textiles for over 35 years. He graduated from the School of Textiles in Biella, Italy, a region which has been producing fabrics since the early 11th century, and he worked in the family’s furnishings fabrics business. A decade ago he launched the Mariaflora brand of sophisticated indoor-outdoor fabrics, named after his grandmothers, with his wife, Elena Dondi, and recently he launched an eponymous line of elegant indoor fabrics made with high-quality natural fibers inspired by the Italian style and tradition.

J. Samuel Textiles is the U.S. representative for the AURA, Filippo Uecher Collection, Johnstons of Elgin, J. Samuel, and Mariaflora textile mills in Belgium, Italy and Scotland. J. Samuel was established by Justin S. Strauss and his parents, Sherry and Richard, who have a combined 80 years’ experience in the textile industry. Catering to the interior design trade, J. Samuel curates high-end fabrics from mills that pride themselves on quality and longstanding artisanal weaving traditions that have been passed on from one generation to the next for hundreds of years.

For further information about the Africa Collection from Mariaflora and the new Filippo Uecher collections, contact Tamar Mashigian, 310-276-5001, tamar@cdecor.com. 

The noted furnishings and interiors designer Jiun Ho is celebrating the September 22 opening of his New York showroom, Jiun Ho at Dennis Miller Associates, with a unique event in collaboration with Cambria Partners, the American-made natural quartz producer, Luxe magazine and a group of leading design talents. 

Each of the designers, Benjamin Cruz, Bennett Leifer, Carl D’Aquino, Lisa Kanning, and Jiun Ho has created an object in Cambria quartz.The objects will be on display in Jiun Ho’s new showroom at The New York Design Center until September 30. Two objects will be auctioned to benefit the Kips Bay Boys and Girl’s Club in New York. The three remaining objects will travel for further viewing at Cambria Galleries in San Francisco, Toronto, Palm Desert and Minneapolis.

Jiun Ho designed his new showroom reflect the luxurious international style for which he is known. It is a fluid, experiential space that immediately transports visitors to a new level of style and sophisticated living. Jiun Ho says that the configuration of the showroom will continually evolve as new designs and collections are introduced, 

In any Jiun Ho-designed environment, the right art is integral to the overall scheme. Accordingly the designer has selected pieces from a range of contemporary artists that enhance each area in exciting and unexpected new ways. 

Dennis Miller, one of the country’s leading authorities on modern and contemporary furniture, has long-represented Jiun Ho’s designs in New York. When an adjacent showroom  became available earlier this year, it seemed a perfect opportunity to increase the space available to showcase Jiun Ho’s growing collections of furniture, lighting, fabrics, floor coverings and accessories. Many of the designs in the new Jiun Ho space are recent introductions that both Dennis Miller and Jiun Ho are delighted to have the chance to present in an optimum setting.

Jiun Ho says, “Dennis Miller has provided not only a wonderful showcase  for my designs, but his knowledge and guidance over the years have given me endless inspiration and support. I am grateful for this wonderful opportunity for Dennis and I to greatly expand our working relationship.”

Jiun Ho is the founder of his own 15 year old luxury lifestyle design studio, based in San Francisco. His designs have been published in numerous leading publications including Elle Décor, Architectural Digest, Interior Design (which also nominated him for a Best of Year Award), The New York Times and Luxe. He is frequently invited to participate in leading show houses. A noted speaker, Jiun Ho is also often asked to lecture on design and to participate on panels with other leading authorities in the field. His designs, found in dozens of exclusive homes in the US and other countries, are available in premiere showrooms throughout the US, Canada and internationally.

Cambria is the first and only family-owned American-made producer of natural quartz surfaces. Headquartered in Le Sueur, Minn, all Cambria designs are made of 93 per cent natural quartz and are  completely maintenance free. Their products are available through an exclusive network of specialty retail and trade partners that can be found on www.CambriaUSA.com.

Los Angeles, CA -- Jiun Ho proudly announces the preview of his new Jiun Ho Collection V at WESTWEEK 2016 in the Pacific Design Center on March 23rd and 24th and will remain open by appointment through April 19. Presented by Thomas Lavin, Jiun’s Los Angeles showroom representative, Jiun has designed a thoughtful pop-up display in Suite 370 that serves as a celebration and narrative of his 15 years of product design.

Part travelogue and part autobiography, the temporary space displays 16 new designs along with Jiun’s photography of his recent crossing of five continents -- from Asia to Africa, Europe and North and South America. Large blow-ups suspended from the ceiling document Mr. Ho’s sources of inspiration, among them striking images of precisely cut Incan masonry, the Chateaus de Chenonceau and de Chambord in the Loire Valley, the Okavango Delta in Botswana and Mondrian’s distilled canvases. 

Jiun Ho was born in Malaysia and early trips throughout Asia with his family fostered his passion for learning and design. He has now visited over 100 countries and this exposure to unfamiliar surroundings, people, art, and material culture has provided him with an extraordinarily rich vantage point. The more he has seen, the more inspired, confident and emboldened he has become. States Jiun, “I learned that the language of design transcends time and place. This freedom to discover and to look at things with a different perspective was totally immersive and, on my recent travels, I became more adventurous and innovative.”

During visits to Peru, Chile and Bolivia, Jiun was struck not only by the captivating landscape and culture, but the living blend of ancient and modern. His Maras Chair, Pisac Cabinet and Ica Shelving evoke precisely cut Incan masonry and the vibrant colors embraced by the region’s culture. The Picchu Coffee Table, Acora Coffee Table, and Picos Chairs recall the weathered terrain and deconstructed beauty of Cusco, Machu Picchu, and the Sacred Valley of the Incas. 

Okavango Delta in Botswana, an immense, astounding oasis in the Kalahari Desert, inspired the massive Masai Dining Table with its handsome drum base, along with the Etosha Chair, whose long, graceful arms evoke the curl of an elephant’s trunk and the grace of an antelope. France also looms large as impetus for his designs, including the stately Vendome Table and the soigné Odeon Table, homage to Hector Guimard’s exuberant architecture for the Paris Metro. The delicate beauty of the Saumur Console and Bench reference his visit to the Chateaus de Chenonceau and de Chambord in the Loire Valley. 

Distilled and refined, the Aomori Bed recreates a Japanese dreamscape with African undertones. A little closer to home, the Kama Chair is all about Palm Springs. There is the realm of art, too, with Macari seating evoking the geometry and rigor of Mondrian’s de Stilj canvases and No More Play Tables, a tribute to Alberto Giacometti.

As formal expressions of their functionality, the Jiun Ho Collection V references and reimagines nature and the man-made. Translating a minimal aesthetic with a global worldview, contrasting textures, clean lines, rich dark woods, and sumptuous fabrics distinguish Jiun’s inventive, balanced and luxurious ensemble. While designing his 15th Anniversary collection, he learned that design transcends all borders and that the eye really must travel to fully fathom and appreciate beauty. 

Jiun Ho is the recipient of numerous awards and his products and interiors have been published in leading national and international publications. His furniture and lighting designs are featured in some of the world's most exclusive homes and are available in premiere showrooms throughout the United States, Canada and select international locations. To commemorate his 15th Anniversary, Jiun previews the PopUp Presented by Thomas Lavin, his exclusive Los Angeles representative. From March 25 through April 19th, the Collection can be seen by appointment and designers are asked to call 310.278.2456 to schedule a date and time. For additional information about Jiun Ho, visit jiunho.com

New York, NY -- Jiun Ho is proud to announce the Jiun Ho Collection V, an ensemble of inventive designs launching November 2015 at the New York Design Center. As both a celebration and narrative of 15 years of product design, the Jiun Ho Collection V is also part travelogue and part autobiography. Chronicling his recent crossing of five continents – from Asia to Africa, Europe, and North and South America, this odyssey has provided him with the liberty to imagine, innovate, and to try not just new designs, but new materials and methods of manufacture. 

Jiun Ho was born in Malaysia and early trips throughout Asia with his family fostered his passion for learning and design. He has now visited over 100 countries and this exposure to unfamiliar surroundings, people, art, and material culture has provided him with an extraordinarily rich vantage point. The more he has seen, the more inspired, confident and emboldened he has become. States Jiun, “I learned that the language of design transcends time and place. This freedom to discover and to look at things with a different perspective was totally immersive and, on my recent travels, I became more adventurous and innovative.” 

During visits to Peru, Chile, and Bolivia, Jiun was struck not only by the captivating landscape and culture, but the living blend of ancient and modern. His Pisac Cabinet and Ica Shelving evoke precisely cut Incan masonry and the vibrant colors embraced by the region’s culture. The Picchu Coffee Table, Acora Coffee Table, and Picos Chairs recall the weathered terrain and deconstructed beauty of Cusco, Machu Picchu, and the Sacred Valley of the Incas. 

Okavango Delta in Botswana, an immense, astounding oasis in the Kalahari Desert, inspired the massive Masai Dining Table with its handsome drum base, along with the Etosha Chair, whose long, graceful arms evoke the curl of an elephant’s trunk and the grace of an antelope. France also looms large as impetus for his designs, including the stately Vendome Table and the soigné Odeon Table, homage to Hector Guimard’s exuberant architecture for the Paris Metro. The delicate beauty of the Saumur Console and Bench reference his visit to the Chateaus de Chenonceau and de Chambord in the Loire Valley. 

Distilled and refined, the Aomori Bed recreates a Japanese dreamscape with African undertones. A little closer to home, the Kama Chair is all about Palm Springs. There is the realm of art, too, with Macari seating evoking the geometry and rigor of Mondrian’s de Stilj canvases and No More Play Tables, a tribute to Alberto Giacometti. 

As formal expressions of their functionality, the Jiun Ho Collection V references and reimagines nature and the man-made. Translating a minimal aesthetic with a global worldview, contrasting textures, clean lines, rich dark woods, and sumptuous fabrics distinguish Jiun’s inventive, balanced and luxurious ensemble. While designing his 15th Anniversary collection, he learned that design transcends all borders and that the eye really must travel to fully fathom and appreciate beauty. 

Jiun Ho is the recipient of numerous awards and his products and interiors have been published in leading national and international publications. His furniture and lighting designs are featured in some of the world's most exclusive homes and are available in premiere showrooms throughout the United States, Canada and select international locations. To commemorate his 15th Anniversary, Jiun debuts the Jiun Ho Collection V on November 5th at the New York Design Center, 200 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1502, which will be on view until November 19th. Dennis Miller & Associates is the exclusive New York representative for Jiun Ho.