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Design Collab & Associates

DCA is a creator of brand environments, with international experience in the design of art installations, accessories and styling allocation.

Our original artists, designers and curators have experience

spanning over 20 years of collective fine arts, art history and interior design, with a focus on luxury hospitality and high-end residential projects.

Design Collab & Associates
Founder
Grace Sun

Grace has over 20 years experience in design and project management, business development and client relations for the interior and art design world. Her career as spanned working for in- house for interior design consultancy, as design and art director for hotel developers, as well as owners representative for hospitality projects across Greater China and Asia Pacific.
As Founder for DCA, Grace provides the vision and support for the team, the direction of design, and the dialogue between owner, operator, interior designer and artists.

Grace holds a double Bachelor Degree in Business and Arts from the University of NSW, a Masters in Media and Communications from Monash University, and a Hotel Real Estate Investments and Asset Management Certificate from Cornell University.

Head of Design
Dennis Tan

Dennis started his interior design career in 1996. He is an experienced hospitality designer with specialization in Food & Beverage design. Recently heading a F&B team in a reputable international firm as a Design Director, his projects cover Southeast Asia, China, East Asia, and South Asia with multiple clients Brand’s operators and owners with overseas postings in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur.

Dennis is proficient in the technicalities of F&B design while commanding outstanding design flair and feel to produce amazing hospitality F&B outlets; making his designs a key component of the dining experience.

Key highlights in his career were a 2-time nomination & finalist for the 34th and 39th IHMR Gold Key awards for Best Resort & Best Hotel Upscale categories in which he and his team designed and completed the F&B areas of Sofitel Nusa Dua Bali & Renaissance Xi’an.
His team also worked on the F&B at ITC Grand Chola Chennai which was awarded the "Best Business Hotel" award at the third Annual Lonely Planet Magazine Travel Awards 2014 and Conde Nast Traveller Award for “Best Leisure Hotel”.respectively.

Senior Project Director
Shane Wan

MArch, The University of Hong Kong | Licensed Architect

He is specializing in hospitality art integration and spatial experience design with 10+ years of cross-disciplinary expertise spanning architectural design, project managment, and art installation practices.
His approach fuses spatial narrative with tactile materiality, leveraging multiple design tools and sustainable curation to craft immersive, brand-driven hotel environments. He excels at translating artistic concepts into buildable realities through VMU prototyping, multi-consultant coordination, and supply chain management.

Selected Hospitality Projects:
· Guangzhou Chisha Monogram Hotel
· Beijing Changping Xuanli Hotel
· Jinmao Zhangjiagang The Splendors Mall
· Beijing HopsonOn Phase I Renovation Project
· Nanjing FSH Headquarter & High-end Apartment

Art Director
Pier Djerejian-Shiever

A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's Fine Arts program, PIER has been part of curatorial team of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Andy Warhol Museum, the International Contemporary Art Fair in Gramercy, and the Gaja Gallery in Singapore.

From 2001 to 2019, she was the co-founder of The Changing Room in Hong Kong, where she worked on a number of high-profile projects: Duddell's in Hong Kong, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, Grand Hyatt Seoul, and completed art and sculpture for Rosewood Hotel Phuket. She also collaborated with Ellerman to design accessories for Rosewood Beijing.

Pier is an art and accessories design consultant for DCA, working on the design, selection and sourcing of hotel and residential projects

Art Director
Selena Wang

Graduated from Jilin College of the Arts, majoring in Interior Design with a focus on Art Design.

Working as an art consultant, she has participated in numerous art projects for five-star hotels, covering all core stages from conceptual proposal and detailed design to on-site construction.

Throughout her extensive professional career, she is committed to infusing hotel spaces with distinctive and striking artistic ambiance.

General Manager
Sylvia Zhao

Project Manager
Daniel Wang

Project Director
Ji Xu

Project Manager
Cullen Ye

Produetion Director
Dest Zhang

Enrolled in Shanghai Normal University in 2008, majoring in Visual Communication Design. With over 10 years of experience in the hotel artwork industry, she specializes in detailed design and on-site implementation of projects.

She boasts extensive experience in the refinement and delivery of art installations. She is a modest and approachable professional with perceptual sensitivity combined with rational thinking, and a firm functionalist. She believes that the essence of design is to optimize and beautify functions, bringing pleasant experiences to viewers and users.

Proficient in diverse design styles, she also has solid capabilities in on-site execution, construction schedule management and cost control. She has completed the design and delivery of hotel art projects for multiple renowned real estate enterprises. The hotels she has participated in have won many internationally prestigious design awards. She actively engages in industry exchanges and keeps learning about the latest design trends and developments.

During her studies, she also won numerous awards in design competitions covering illustration, UI design, brand design and other categories.

Art Director
Yvonne Fan

Project Director
Iris Lee

Art Director
Qiang Feng

Art Designer
Youvi Chow

Executive Assistant
Tina Liu

Art Director
Jackson Xia

Art Director
Mila Sun

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