Wonmin Park was born in 1982 in Seoul, South Korea, and is a graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven. After working with a series of prestigious design companies in the Netherlands, he established Studio Wonmin Park, based in Eindhoven, in 2012. Park’s furniture acts like sculpture that demands to be looked at and visually appreciated.

Along with the impact of its opaqueness and transparency, Wonmin Park chose resin for its texture giving him“the sensation of painting enveloped air”. This forms part of his exploration of substantiality versus insubstantiality and his artistic evaluation of uncertainty, ambiguity and vagueness. His designs sit on the axis between minimal and practical, but always contain an element of dissonance that creates a sense of balance and tension within the work. 

The use of resin in Wonmin Park’s work produces a surreal, dream-like quality reminiscent of seeing something without fixed contours, bound together by light and air. The artist himself says that he aims for a“sense of lightness and purity”and that the works“engage with their surroundings”. His designs are considered as both practical commodity and fine art.