{"id":60575,"date":"2026-06-14T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=60575"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:00:03","slug":"a-restored-singapore-shophouse-filled-with-art-design-and-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=60575","title":{"rendered":"A restored Singapore shophouse filled with art, design and memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lena Koh was born in Singapore, but life has taken her across the world. \u201cI have lived in seven cities,\u201d said Koh, who opened the stained glass-panelled pintu pagar of her Mount Sophia shophouse one morning. The home bears traces of those globetrotting influences, from her curated art collection and Chinese artefacts to her Danish furniture and lighting pieces \u2013 all reflecting her eye for proportion, colour and composition.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in her career, Koh worked in public relations, advertising, events and business development around the region. She spent much of the past few decades in Beijing, where she raised her children while pursuing various creative projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy interest in art started in 2013 as a point of connection with my three children, who are in the arts field,\u201d said Koh, who later attended a docent-training programme with Singapore Art Museum in 2014 and became a guide for contemporary art. She also visits biennales around the world with friends \u201cto expand our horizon\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cnaluxury.channelnewsasia.com\/obsessions\/restored-singapore-shophouse-art-danish-design-294071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lena Koh was born in Singapore, but life has taken her across the world. \u201cI have lived in seven cities,\u201d said Koh, who opened the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}