Manivong Tag

Designer Nary Manivong’s latest project is an interior one — each personally and professionally. Manivong, whose parents relocated to the U.S. from Laos within the early ’80s, has been tasked with handling the decor and redesign of the rooms for the Laos UN Mission. The project is a meaningful one for Manivong, who along along with his twin brother, was born in Ohio in 1982, months after his parents immigrated from Laos through the sponsorship of a church group. In an interview Thursday, he explained that his parents decided to go away Laos due to fallout from the Second Indochina war, which is usually known as the “secret war in Laos” because it ran concurrent with the Vietnam War. “Laos is often...