COCOONED BY
SOOTHING CIRCLES

The interior of this luxe hotel’s reception area is a visually luscious play of circles and textures – not just in terms of the furniture, screens and materials but in the way they are lit. The sensuality of the flat and three-dimensional surfaces is heightened by carefully designed variations in light, shadow and transparency. Even the sandstone blocks of the reception desks appear soft to the touch. And so, as soon as guests enter this space, they immediately feel cocooned from the hurly-burly of the vibrant Lan Kwai Fong district around them.

The interior design’s central concept is seen in many contrasting ways – in the circular patterns of the carpets, the semicircular banquettes, the screen of hanging ‘earrings’ and in the white inlays in the black marble floor. This circle-game is expressed most gracefully in the wooden screens, whose undulating profiles create delightful moiré effects – but are also very practical, giving guests a partially screened view of the street.

In the bedrooms, we see the circle motif expressed with a deliberate reduction of visual drama in the fabric of lampshades, the bespoke four-segment coffee table, and in the radius of the leather bucket-seat. Two other notable features are Antony Chan’s curation of large-scale photographs taken by eminent Hong Kong photographers. And, in the bathroom, his design of the marble-banded walls creates a visually refreshing atmosphere which contrasts pleasantly with the calming oak surfaces in the bedrooms.