Lany Space x Qiao Yu: Color Therapy for Your Floor
Kerry Wang | August 3, 2026
If you believe color can change your mood in seconds, you are in the right place. Meet Qiao Yu, a painter based in Hangzhou, China, who turns flowers and everyday table moments into bold, healing worlds. Her work is bright on purpose, playful on purpose, and never afraid of high saturation because she wants art to feel like a warm pause in real life. For her collaboration with Lany Space, she brings that same ''small things can heal'' mindset onto the floor, so a rug is not just decor, it is a daily dose of calm and joy.
Designer: Qiao Yu
An interview with Qiao Yu
Q: We'd love for you to start by introducing yourself:
A: I'm Qiao Yu. I was born in China in 1987 and I'm now based in Hangzhou. I graduated from the China Academy of Art, where I studied mural painting. I'm a painter who talks to the world through color. In my world, art is fluid, healing, and full of strength. I've always believed that color has a direct way of reaching the heart, and that flowers and everyday objects are the quiet poetry life hides in plain sight.
My work often centers on flowers, but not as still, silent subjects. They appear vivid and abstract, almost as if they are breathing. I love letting rich, living colors collide, so the image overflows with childlike joy and delight. These combinations never follow fixed rules, yet they always carry a bright warmth, like a clear afternoon that slips into your memory without warning.
Beyond flowers, I also love painting moments from the table: a generous plate of food, a casually arranged bouquet, a few humble ceramic pieces. In my eyes, these ordinary fragments are small rituals gifted by life. Through painting, I hope to lift them out of routine and turn them into a window, one that helps people feel again the overlooked, subtle, and steady beauty in everyday life.
Painting is a gentle kind of healing. Over time, I've come to understand that strength does not have to come from grand narratives. It can bloom in the shape of a flower, in the emotion of a color, in the warmth of a meal. That is why my work never tries to feel heavy. Instead, I want to invite viewers to pause for a moment and experience the instinctive happiness that color can bring, simple and direct, like a child seeing a rainbow for the first time.
Q: How would you describe your design style?
A: My style is a lively, abstract kind of healing. I use high saturation colors and playful, childlike abstract forms to reinterpret flowers and everyday still life, delivering calmness and inner strength through visual joy.
Q: How have your personal experiences or personality influenced your design ideas?
A: My artistic approach grew from a deep process of making peace with myself. I once struggled with pessimism and perfectionism, and painting became the way I healed. I deliberately practiced ''painting like a child,'' letting go of control over details and chasing the raw, original joy of brushstrokes and color. In the end, my work becomes a kind of ''healing passed on.'' I want to share the freedom and lightness I've found through painting, and the strength that grows from allowing imperfection, through vivid colors and innocent forms, so viewers can feel it too.
Q: How do you incorporate your personal style into home design projects?
A: I extract the signature colors and abstract forms from my paintings and turn them into a ''color mood'' for the home. Bright blocks of color become the finishing touch that brings a space to life. Each piece is not only a visual art accent, but also a warm presence that can live with you day to day and hold up beautifully over time.
Q: What drew you to collaborate with our rug brand?
A: This collaboration with a rug brand in Los Angeles makes me especially excited. A rug feels like art in motion, spread across the spaces we walk through every day. I wanted to weave the flowers, colors, and life imagery I love into something soft yet grounded, so art can be not only seen, but also touched and felt. I hope it becomes a ''colorful zone'' you can always return to in daily life, light and airy, yet full of vitality.
Q: What was your first impression of Lany Space rugs and our style?
A: Lany Space feels like a platform that gathers truly unique artistic souls. It let me instantly discover creations that are niche yet full of life, and to me, that is exactly what ''special rugs'' should be. This commitment to originality and uniqueness aligns perfectly with my own artistic values. We both hope to use uncommon colors and forms to bring a joyful sense of life into everyday spaces.
Q: Could you share the story or concept behind the collection you designed for us?
A: The two series, ''Light on the Table'' and ''Breath in the Woods,'' both come from the core idea in my work: letting small things heal everyday life. “Light on the Table” is built around my signature pink. It depicts a table dressed with a cloth, along with flowers and a teapot. Through warm, bright colors and familiar objects, I wanted to create the pleasure of feeling warmly welcomed, filling the home with a sense of abundance and comfort ''Breath in the Woods'' blends pine branches, pinecones, and flowers into a vintage checkerboard. Here, natural forms collide with geometric order, symbolizing the way we search for inner steadiness in a constantly moving life. The earthy, healing palette is meant to bring a visible sense of calm and breathing space into the room. These two series are a gentle extension of my work, from canvas into daily living.
Q: Among the pieces in these collections, which design is your favorite, and why?
A: My favorite is ''Breath in the Woods.'' Its soft, refined healing palette naturally fits into many different home styles, and it perfectly captures what I love most: making art feel like a real part of everyday life.
Q: If you could sum up this collection in three words, what would they be?
A: Healing, balance, natural poetry.
Qiao Yu's Designs for Lany Space
Colorful Summer Picnic Rug by Qiao Yu
Colorful Summer Picnic Rug by Qiao Yu feels like her ''tabletop poetry'' turned into a floor moment. You can spot the little ritual details right away: bold blooms, fruit, stripes, and checks, like a sunny lunch that never ends. It comes in 5'×7' and 7'×10', so it works best under a dining table, in a sunroom, or in an open studio that needs one happy anchor. Keep the room simple with light wood or rattan, then let the rug be the color story. If this rug was your picnic, what are you pouring first, lemonade or wine?
Colorful Tropical Flower Rug by Qiao Yu
Colorful Tropical Flower Rug by Qiao Yu brings her bright, healing florals straight into your space, bold color, soft mood, zero stiffness. You get oversized blush blooms, olive leaves, and little hand drawn texture marks, plus that sunny checkerboard corner that keeps it playful. It comes in 5'×7' and 7'×10', so it can anchor a dining room, brighten a sunroom, or warm up a creative studio. Style it with light oak and rattan, then repeat just one shade once, a blush pillow, an olive vase, or a simple print, and the room instantly looks intentional.
Final Touch
Qiao Yu's collection for Lany Space is a reminder that beauty does not have to be rare or serious to be powerful. A picnic table, a bouquet, a teapot, a few simple shapes and colors can become the kind of visual warmth you feel the moment you walk into a room. If you want something that lifts a space without making it complicated, start with the rug that makes you smile first, then keep the rest of the room clean and let that color mood do its job. This is art you live alongside, quietly turning ordinary days into something a little more tender and a lot more alive.