Character Building

Interdisciplinary design studio White Jacket relishes using wood to imbue spaces with soul.

 

Here’s a telltale sign of design director Patricia Ho’s poetic inclinations: On her firm White Jacket’s website, the description of every project undertaken by her interdisciplinary design studio is accompanied by a literary reference.

It’s little wonder that Ho, who is also the firm’s founder and a passionate bibliophile, quotes architect Frank Lloyd Wright to explain her approach to working with wood: “Wood is universally beautiful to man and is the most humanly intimate of all materials.”