“I’m always considering the visual hierarchies of a space, proportion, and scale at the micro and macro level,” says Jason Chen. Credit that attention to detail to his pedigree. Raised in Kansas City, Kansas, he studied industrial design at Pratt, interning for Knoll, and later working for AD100 maestro Billy Cotton. Since launching Studio Chen in 2025, he has developed his own style while remaining attuned to client needs—whether leaning into the Colonial Revival spirit of a Berkshires house or conjuring a new Manhattan dining concept for the team behind Jupiter and King. “I’m still influenced by the work of Florence Knoll,” Chen says of his function-forward approach. “Her eye for pure, total design and her modernist values continue to inspire me.”
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