VW+BS

Voon Wong (the VW) set up his own studio in London in 1997 after having worked with some well-known names in the architecture world – Rick Mather, Zaha Hadid, the Danish office CF Moller and some commercial practice in Singapore. A few years later with Benson Saw (The BS, from a background in engineering at Motorola and a degree in product design from the Royal College of Art), they started a separate business working on product design and before very long the two of them were winning awards for products such as the Loop light in the selection for the Compasso d’Oro and the ELseries won the Oxo Peugeot Award for lighting design.

It soon made sense to bring the two studios under one roof. VW+BS, a multidisciplinary practice, started in 2006 with Ian Macready (he is the + sign) from a background of design marketing and sales. The studio has now completed more than 250 projects internationally including residential and commercial architecture schemes, exhibition design, product design for leading brands, commercial interiors, and even aircraft cabin design for Virgin Atlantic.