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.
“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.”
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.
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Magic Eye
Drawing inspiration from the computer-generated graphics that captivated Lee in the ‘90s, this pattern brings a mesmerizing energy to upholstery, tracing its lineage from the Jacquard loom and its punch card to today’s digitally driven weaving technologies. The result is a textile that feels alive, and its lichen-like motif is a testament to Lee’s fascination with how binary code can conjure something organic and full of depth. Available in seven dappled colorways, Magic Eye is woven from 78% post-consumer recycled polyester and is also suitable for wrapped panels.
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Pointillist
Taking its cue from the fin de siècle artistic movement, Pointillist integrates points of color through hand-selected bouclé yarns to produce dynamic color fields that are luminous and cohesive. The 10 colorways span a striking range, from the cerulean-lit Proteus, to the earthy browns and blues of Noh, and the charmingly retro pink and chartreuse of Studmuffin. Pointillist is approved for both indoor and outdoor use, pairing its visual softness with considered durability.
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Gridwork
At first glance, Gridwork’s simple construction communicates a handcrafted quality. While the textile itself echoes the simple warp and weft of canvas, textured yarns and piece-dyed contrasting color combinations weave together a surface that softens out from afar and yet, up close, reveals a layered, artistic depth. Made from 95% post-consumer recycled polyester, each of the 13 colorways is designed to impart two things at once: sophistication and surprise. Take Tantrum, Lee’s exclusive signature vibrant pink, or the subtle play of light and dark in Nocturne, it’s this balance that gives Gridwork a subtle tension.
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Impasto
Deriving its name from the thick application of paint to build depth, Impasto, a textured velvet, adds a dynamic, light-sensitive, and lively curation to this collection. Its undulating, woven structure evokes the organic patterns that are integral to Lee’s work: natural textures displayed in woven pile. Offered in 5 distinctive colorways such as Oberon, an inky mix of purple and brown named for the king of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Wilde, a rich, warm forest green that is as refined as its namesake (Oscar), Impasto is defined by the mercurial, in-between and slightly off-kilter hues that resist easy classification.
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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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