These are but few of the many inspirations Eugenie Yanlin Huang Selway draws from to inform her work. Ms. Huang Selway creates objects that seem like artifacts from a far away universe, collisions in materiality and construction. No matter what scale of work (architecture to jewelry), she honors the stories in client insights, and finds how her gained knowledge, intuition and technical know-how can impact these experiences into meaningful, usable spaces.

Growing up amidst stacks of blueprints, art volumes, and music anthologies in the woods of North Carolina, Ms. Huang Selway first began making design objects inspired by dogeared books of Calder, O’Keefe, Bauhaus, to name a few. Between pursuing bachelors and masters degrees in architecture at MIT and Columbia, she spent a year in middle Ohio learning how to rebuild motorcycle parts and motors while working at NBBJ Architects.  She is the Director of Global Store Design at Kiehl's Since 1851 and for almost a decade shared the NYC-based architectural practice Formactiv after working at Polshek Partnership. She has also apprenticed for conceptual jewel-smith atelier Trimetall in Cologne and with the late Jessica Rose in New York. She has served as juror for studio reviews at Parsons School of Design, Columbia GSAPP, MIT Dept of Architecture, and Ohio State Knowlton School of Architecture.