HBF Textiles Launches Paint By Numbers Designed by Liam Lee

 

 

HBF Textiles, in collaboration with Liam Lee, unveils Paint By Numbers, Lee’s debut textile collection comprising four unexpected and vibrant patterns that demonstrate Lee’s distinctive understanding of color and form, encourage experimentation through their juxtaposition.

 

 

Crafted with a poetic sensitivity to color and texture, the collection draws inspiration from Lee’s recent paintings that incorporate forms derived from paint-by-numbers kits and hover between abstraction and figuration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Whereas the pattern names in the collection refer to painting and my practice in some respect, the color names are drawn from a diverse array of sources in literature, mythology, and music that inform Lee’s artistic practice. Each colorway in Paint By Numbers contributes to the emergence of cohesive and color-filled interiors, their dynamic hues mirroring an artist or painter’s palette: vivid, remarkable, and alive with possibility.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paint by Numbers by Liam Lee is the recipient of four industry awards: 
NYCxDesign Award - Contract Fabric Category
HiP Award - Hospitality Category: Fabric + Textiles 
MetropolisLikes Award
Best of NeoCon Silver Award - Upholstery Category

 

 

 

 

 

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“I tend to work in a somewhat non-linear way, and color is central to my practice,” says Liam Lee. “The colorways in ‘Paint By Numbers’ are intended to be mixed and matched, acting as puzzle pieces for designers to explore playful, polychrome palettes in their projects.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COLLECTION

 

 

 

 

 

MAGIC EYE
POINTILLIST
GRIDWORK
IMPASTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“One of the most rewarding aspects of developing this collection was the color work,” says Liam Lee. “We started at a very granular scale, sometimes with just small yarn samples, and had to envision how a large swath of fabric will look once it's woven, how the color will read under different light, and how incremental shifts in hue will affect the overall harmony of a colorway.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRODUCTS

 

 

 

 

 

MAGIC EYE
POINTILLIST
GRIDWORK
IMPASTO

 

 

 

 

 

About Liam Lee 

 

 

Born and raised in New York City, Liam Lee is a Brooklyn-based artist and designer whose work is inspired by the dissolution of boundaries between interior and exterior spaces, as well as between structured objects and the natural environment. Since beginning his practice in 2020, Lee has exhibited work with Carvalho Gallery, Patrick Parrish Gallery, and R & Company in New York, Objective Gallery in Shanghai, Make Hauser & Wirth, the Ogunquit Museum, the Brattleboro Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Named a finalist for the 2023 Loewe Craft Prize, Lee was included in Wallpaper* Magazine’s USA 300 list in 2023, and USA 400 in 2024 and 2025. In 2021, Lee was named one of Dwell’s 24 emerging designers and Architectural Digest’s ‘Ones to Watch.’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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