Yuxuan Huang (b.1999) is a furniture designer based between Brooklyn, New York, and China. Working with natural materials that bear the marks of time and growth, her practice often employs a collage-like play of reclaimed wood, bamboo, stone, and other found or deconstructed matter. Fascinated by the cut motifs of traditional paper craft, she creates sketch-like furniture and lighting that echo craft legacies while carrying forgotten memories of the past. Her recent collection, My Grandpa Once Taught Me How to Fly a Kite, explores hand-painted paper and shellac as sustainable mediums for illuminating, storytelling, and memory keeping.

Born and raised in Chengdu, a mountainous city in southwest China, Huang has long sought subtlety and serendipity in the life of objects. Her passion for conceptual art led her to pursue an interdisciplinary education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied Designed Objects and Photography. Her interest in space and time deepened into an exploration of form, materiality, and the functionality of furniture and objects. She received her MFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2024.

Huang’s work has been exhibited at SaloneSatellite in Milan, ICFF/WantedDesign Manhattan, Collectible New York, and Alcova Miami, and has been featured and mention in The New York Times, Dwell Magazine, Wallpaper, Galarie, Sight Unseen, AN Interior, and Dezeen.