If you have been to Violet Oon’s kitchen at National Art Gallery before, and wondered who is the designer behind the exquisite design, it is actually done by a relatively young designer in her 30s, Cherin Tan of Laank Studio. Laank is a 8-year-old studio that has done some remarkable interior works focused on human-centric spaces. Kelley Cheng speaks with Cherin Tan on her design-in pajamas-from-the-bedroom one-woman-show beginning to how she overcome teething problems to build her studio of 12 today.