Sinotique

Founded by Jan Lee in 1992 Sinotique provides high quality home furnishings and antiques to New York's top design and architecture firms and discerning private clients. Housed in a compact brick building in historic DUMBO/Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn on three floors, Sinotique is a full service firm that provides sourcing, designing and fabrication of custom built furniture and cabinetry. Sinotique uses only local craftsmen, artisans and suppliers rather than outsource to overseas factories. Sinotique recently installed its custom designed furniture in one of Manhattan's only platinum LEED certified buildings, The Visionaire.""I bought an apartment in the City's first LEED "Platinum" residential building, and wanted to furnish it in the same spirit as the building: showing that "green" and good design are not mutually exclusive. I found Jan through 1stdibs.com, and was immediately interested in his use of recycled Chinese sleeping mats. Not only is the material recycled, but bamboo is a very sustainable wood, and thus a major theme of both the building and the apartment. He did other pieces suggesting movement, capturing the dynamism of air pubbles frozen in clear glass. It was a seamless and, ultimately very successful, collaboration."- FRED RICH, Board of Directors - The Visionaire.interi