ESCAPE ARTISTS

The founders of Lekker Architects employ a playful yet rigorous approach to architecture and design.

If you have felt inspired by the whimsical, colourful artwork – a flower created out of shuttlecocks, for instance – displayed in the Hermes store windows in Singapore, you have Lekker Architects to thank.

The Singapore-based multidisciplinary design studio is behind the ingenious presentations that are as playful as they are intricate.

Helmed by the husband-and-wife team, Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing, Lekker Architects was established in 2002 as Lekker Design. With a portfolio comprising architecture, landscape, interior, exhibition, window display and product design, including their recent series of public seating for the National Gallery Singapore, the 12-person studio truly epitomises what it is to be multidisciplinary. In fact, the research-driven couple are also book writers, having released the tome Horror in Architecture in 2013 about strange, atypical building types.