In 2011, Li Xiang founded X+Living Architectural Design in Shanghai, and has ever since been building her own design team working at the cutting edge of art, fashion and business. She has gained cross-field achievements by exploring interior design as an architect, creating many design works with commercial and aesthetic values in the culture, retail, hotel and other industries. Her high-profile design has become the benchmark in aesthetic design and strategic design, and won international recognition with a series of top international awards. She was awarded four times Andrew Martin' s International Interior Design Award, 5 Platinum award and 14 Golden award in A' Design Awards. Li Xiang is the first Chinese designer that was invited as a jury member of the Frame Awards. In 2020, she was selected as the only Chinese designer in FAST COMPANY: ‘Global: Most Creative People in Business’ that year. Owing to Li' s guidance and management, X+Living with its unique surreal fantasy space aesthetics has become one of the leading design forces with great international influence and was chosen as the jury winner of Best Commercial Firm in 2022 Architizer A+ Awards.
Honors and Awards:
2023 Prix Versailles - Special prize Interior
2023 Kyoto Global Design Awards - Best 100
2023 Archello Awards - Jury
2023 Dezeen Awards China - Jury
2023 Builder Architect's Chair Competition - Jury
2023 100 Best Russian Projects - Jury
2023 A' Design Awards - Jury
2022 Interior Design Best of Year Awards - Retail
2022 Architecture MasterPrize - Best of Best Award
2022 A' Design Awards - Jury
2022 IFI Design Distinction Award - Gold & Silver Award
2022 Dezeen Awards - Jury
2021 INTERIOR DESIGN's Best of Year Awards - Bookstore
2021 Architecture MasterPrize - 1 Best of Best and 4 Winner Awards
2021 ICONIC AWARDS: Innovative Architecture Interior Designers of the Year
2021 Project Management Institute: Future 50
2021 Architizer A+Awards - Commercial - Retail Space Jury Winner
2021 Archiproducts Design Awards - Jury
2021 Loop Design Awards - Jury
2020 Interior Design Best of Year Awards - Best Mixed Retail Space
2020 UK Restaurant & Bar Design Awards - International Color
2020 The 24th Andrew Martin Awards - International Interior Design
2020 FAST COMPANY Global: Most Creative People in Business
2020 Hospitality Design Magazine“2020 Wave of the Future”
2020 Frame Awards - Entertainment Venue of the Year
2020 Archdaily Best of building - winner of interior architecture
2019 International Design Awards - Gold Award
2019 DDF Award: China Decoration Designing Industry TOP10 Youths
2019 Interior Design Best of Year Awards - Best Bookstore Design
2019 FAST COMPANY CHINA: Most Creative People in Business 100
2019 Prix Versailles Awards - Special Prize Interior
2019 Frame Awards - Jury
2018 UK Restaurant & Bar Design Awards - Best Restaurant Design
2018 Frame Awards - Designer of the Year & Multi-Brand Store of the Year
2018 Prix Versailles Awards - Special Prize Interior
2017 The 21st Andrew Martin Awards - International Interior Design
2017 AD100 Most influential Chinese Designers
2017 Prix Versailles Awards - Global Prize Interior
2017 FRAME 20 Years: 20 Creatives Defining the Future
2016 Interior Design Best of Year Awards - Best Bookstore Design
2015 Forbes China' s 30 Most Promising Designers