Kris Yenbamroong is the chef and owner of Night + Market, a restaurant with two locations in the West Hollywood and Silver Lake neighborhoods of Los Angeles. He was named one of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs in 2016.
His restaurants are bright, colorful nods to the authentic Thai cuisine he mastered at his parents' restaurant, Talésai. But at home, Yenbmaroong was attempting to work in a space that was altogether uninspiring.
Laurel & Wolf is a Los Angeles-based interior design startup that pairs clients with designers to refresh specific rooms for $149 each. For $249 a room, you can pick from three different designers whose concepts you can preview before selecting.
Laurel & Wolf designer Jessica Ruiz Lee helped Yenbamroong revamp his office space — let's take a look at how it turned out.
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The Night + Market restaurants are located in an exceptionally colorful space. Regular customers include celebrities like Drew Barrymore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, Aziz Ansari, Lena Dunham, and Ryan Gosling (though Gosling apparently only gets take-out here).
But at home, Yenbamroong was dealing with a rather uninspiring space. Over the last few months, he has been working on a cookbook with his wife, Sarah St. Lifer, that's due to come out this year. "It was so cluttered that I'd open the door, look at it and think, 'I can't work here,'" Yenbamroong said to Laurel & Wolf. "Then I'd close the door and go sit on the couch, which has its own distractions."
Yenbamroong enlisted the help of Laurel & Wolf to maximize the productivity of the space.
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