To be Michael Lee’s client means being emotionally and intellectually engaged from a project’s inception. He asks clients to “bare their souls” and even assigns required reading—A Pattern Language, a 1977 book on environmental design. Only then, says the Malibu, California-based designer, are he and his clients able to “start the journey of decorative pillaging and architectural salvation.” In addition to his design practice, Lee keeps himself busy with a host of endeavors, including an upcoming exhibition of his photographs called “Shadows and Souls,” his own line of decorative salvage at a shop in Sag Harbor, New York, and the Elephant Rock Foundation, an organization he founded that gives grants to young musical artists. For years, he says, “I wondered if what I was doing made a difference. What I know to be true now is that art, architecture, music and poetry make the world a more beautiful place.”

Michael Lee

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