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Vogue
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
At an Artist's Apartment in Brooklyn, a Creative Filipino Feast to Celebrate AAPI Month
When I arrived at Eny Lee Parker's apartment building in Fort Greene on the ceramicist and designer had just returned from her studio, pushing two carts with matching conical sculptures atop each one. The cartoonishly scaled pieces are floor-standing candlestick holders, she explained, for the evening's dinner party. Together we pushed the carts down the hallway to her apartment, where Woldy Reyes, Parker's co-host and the evening's chef, exuberantly greeted us with the accent of a British aristocrat's butler. It was a cute and playful welcome, but it turns out the accent is actually a funny affectation—a tic—he occasionally takes on when he's anxious, said Reyes, who is American and first-generation Filipino. As someone who's an infrequent, often self-conscious host, it was endearing (and even a bit of a relief) to witness a seasoned professional exhibiting nervousness before his own dinner party. Eny Lee Parker, Woldy Reyes, and Tara Thomas. Photo: Lawrence De Leon Since launching his catering business and brand Woldy Kusina in 2016, Reyes, 38, has quickly become a go-to caterer for New York's fashion and art worlds. His creative menus showcasing fresh, seasonal ingredients and visually inspiring presentations have attracted clients such as Alaïa, and Giorgio Armani. Last month, Reyes debuted his first cookbook, In The Kusina, featuring plant-based Filipino recipes that nostalgically nod to the food he grew up eating around his family's dinner table in Southern California. 'Tonight's dinner is in celebration of the cookbook, and a lot of the people coming are close friends who also contributed to the book in some way,' said Reyes, looking on as Tara Thomas, a model and fellow chef who was assisting for the night, put the final touches on the table's place settings and decor. Bitter melons and other unusually shaped green gourds fashioned into candlestick holders were set alongside tall stalks of blossoming alliums. The plates, meanwhile, were made by Parker. 'Tara, for instance, helped with the creative production, and my friend Arsh [Raziudden] who works at Christie's, also did two illustrations in the book,' he added.
Vogue
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Cool-Girl Ceramicist Eny Lee Parker Launches a 'Chubby, Puffy, and Curvy' Jewelry Collection
A little known fact about Eny Lee Parker—the Brooklyn artist known for her puffy chairs and playful white ceramics—is that she began her career in jewelry. After receiving her masters in furniture design at Savannah College of Art and Design, Parker felt daunted with the level of business savvy and factory-know-how it would take to launch her own brand within that space. So she decided to start small, instead crafting a line of her own accessories. 'That's how I made a living,' says Parker. 'It's how I started my business.' Although she didn't stay small for long: Parker is now a staple at high-profile design fairs like Design Miami, with her lamps in particular viewed as a hot commodity. But on May 28, she returns to her roots with a new jewelry collection with London-based brand Missoma. Photo: By Stefan Kohli The collection, which includes necklaces, rings, and earrings, takes cues from Parker's signature ceramics style: oversized plump white studs bear a resemblance to her Puffy Daisy sconce, as does the Puffy Dome cuff bracelet. 'I wanted to keep playing with the bulbous type of shapes,' Parker says, adding that her Missoma pieces are 'chubby, puffy and curvy.' Meanwhile, there's an emphasis on both gold and silver hoops—Parker's favorite earring type. 'I wear hoops on a daily basis,' she says. 'That's what I would wear the most.' Much of the collection is crafted in wavy molten gold metal, giving it a visual complexity. Another material Parker embraced? Pearls, which exude a creamy sheen similar to the neutral color palette she uses for her ceramic furniture work.
