Matthias Yong
Matthias’s specialisation in hand-crafted artisan metalwork was forged in his family’s steel fabrication factory since his teenage years. He overcame dyslexia to set up Baremetalco, which works with the creative possibilities of metal fabrication to create beautiful, intricate, and functional works by hand, unlike anything seen in the sheet-metal industry.
One of his stainless-steel fashion pieces earned the Best Dressed award at the 2022 Asian Academy Creative Awards. Matthias aims to create a fabrication-and-design hub, where people can build, experiment and develop their own works, leading to large-scale collaborations in future.