We create exhibitions, cultural spaces, and programs — from concept to execution.
Maison Navie is a creative company working across art, design, culture, and hospitality.
We initiate our own projects and collaborate with companies, brands, artists, galleries, and cultural institutions to develop exhibitions, cultural spaces, programs, and content.
From concept development and creative direction to partner curation, production, and operations, we bring together the people and disciplines each project requires.
At the heart of our work is a simple belief: the environments we create can influence how people see, connect, and live.
OUR APPROACH
We bring together art, space, design, sound, scent, taste, and objects — not as separate disciplines, but as one continuous experience.
Each project responds to its own context and purpose, shaping these elements into a spatial and emotional journey.
Small Changes, Powerful Transformations
Maison Navie is built upon three ideas.
Navi – inspired by nabi, the Korean word for butterfly, symbolizing transformation.
Effect – a reminder that even the smallest action can create lasting change.
Vie – the French word for life.
Together, they express a belief at the heart of Maison Navie: small changes can create powerful transformations.
Every creative journey begins with a shift in perspective.
끼리끼리 [KILIKILI]
Where Like Minds Meet.
In Korean, 끼리끼리 describes the natural tendency of people with shared values and sensibilities to find one another.
For Maison Navie, KILIKILI is both a philosophy and a way of working — bringing together people whose perspectives, values, and capabilities naturally align around a project.
Meaningful projects begin with meaningful connections.
WHAT WE CREATE
We create cultural experiences that bring together art, design, music, food, hospitality, and people.
Not as separate disciplines, but as one continuous experience.
Art opening perception and inviting reflection.
Design shapes how we move through space.
Music creates atmosphere.
Food brings people together.
Hospitality makes people want to return.
Community where like minds naturally discover one another
Together, these elements create environments that encourage curiosity, connection, and meaningful change.
REFLECTION
Connection is where it begins. But the journey continues inward.
We design experiences that invite people to slow down, to notice, to reflect, and to reconnect—with themselves and with others.
We believe well-being is not something we escape to.
It is something we quietly build into everyday life.
This belief lives on through Reflection—our essays, conversations, and ideas exploring art, perception, and the inner life.
OUR VISION
We believe culture can do more than inspire.
It can shape how we live.
Our long-term vision is a global network of cultural destinations —
where hospitality, exhibitions, dining, and community exist as one seamless experience.
Places where people find meaningful relationships, experience thoughtful culture, and recover a rhythm of their own.
Because healthier communities begin with healthier people.
And healthier people begin with environments that help them flourish.
Everything we create moves quietly toward that vision.
WHO WE ARE
Founded and creatively directed by Su Kyung Oh.
Before founding Maison Navie, she led the growth and branding of a luxury hospitality and lifestyle platform in Korea, developing projects that introduced experience-led approaches to the Korean market.
Hospitality
Four Seasons · Mandarin Oriental · Rosewood · The Peninsula · COMO · Six Senses · Capella · Alila · Andaz · Design Hotels™ · SLH
Culture
Frieze Seoul · Phillips London · BYREDO · Fujifilm Korea · The Hyundai
That experience became part of the foundation for Maison Navie’s work across art, space, culture, and hospitality.
