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When you feel tiny in front of others, you want to have a thing that you are good at.

CWL: I think at some point in your life, you realize or experience something that you really believe in and your mind can understand what it means.

And my mom, she didn’t know what that meant. It’s never a balance and I’ll tell you why. You start mingling life and work as one…you don’t know when life ends and work begins as they are all the same. There have been things that happened to me that aren’t very favourable, particularly given my childhood – I come from a modest family with very little means in a very competitive Hong Kong – there’s a standard, path, ladder you must climb in order to be successful.

That’s what is so fascinating for so many of us. Cry about it? And in that sense I don’t think my journey is any more special than anyone else’s. Just like when you go out to sea, you see some rough rocks and some very smooth.

CWL: I guess without it, I don’t know why we do what we’re doing. (For her) I’d probably learn to do the same.

He spent his formative years abroad, first in the United States where he studied architecture at Harvard, and then in Italy, where he worked for design brand Giorgetti — serving as art director from 2004 to 2006 — before establishing his own furniture label, Dimensione Chi Wing Lo and more recently, accessories range 1ness.

You’ve experienced this but you’ve never let this stop you from achieving your dreams. You didn’t grow up with much, you never performed well in school before university. Is love the main thing that drives you? His prolific output has long been recognised, both in and beyond the eminent circle of contemporary Italian design, for its evocativeness in thought, gracefulness in form and meticulousness in every detail.

Founder of DIMENSIONE CHI WING LO, a brand of furniture designed and made in Italy under his close direction, Lo has been actively pursuing design in Italy for almost three decades.

You continue to let the forces act on you and you react to it. You’ve put it very eloquently, but can we zone in on a few more specific examples? What we are necessarily good at may not necessarily give us the opportunity to shine. The same year, Radio Television Hong Kong broadcast a documentary of his life and work. She’s more silent, not reactive, she doesn’t pick fights nor ask for attention.

EL: Would it be fair to say that when you were younger you didn’t have a plan of how you wanted your life to turn out?