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This week’s collaboration with TOPHOTELDESIGN focuses on the subtle structure and interiors of The Hari Hong Kong.
Atkins – Shanghai is behind the architectural design of this resort and Tara Bernerd & Companions designed the interiors. Hansgrohe contributed as a provider.
A serene city retreat
Accomplished in 2020, The Hari Hong Kong, which is the second property from the Harilela household’s Hari model, now stands out as a classy retreat within the metropolis’s Wan Chai space. That is the primary property from the worldwide hospitality group’s flagship resort model to open on residence soil.
The design-led resort is ready aside first by its placing architectural construction bridging the business coronary heart of Causeway Bay and artistic district of Wan Chai.
Inside this area, the interiors have been designed in response to The Hari model’s favour for approachable luxurious. Tara Bernerd & Companions labored in partnership with Dr Aron Harilela to attain this look.
Taking cues from native tradition, heritage and the power of Wan Chai, the multi-layered interiors fuse materiality with an clever interaction of furnishings, finishes and different surprising touches.
Refined private and non-private areas
Friends are met with Crittal home windows and a inexperienced wall within the foyer the place a sculptural concierge desk encompassing a marble base, bronze inserts and timber high is joined by customized low sofas, mid-century espresso tables and a library wall. A palette of wealthy blues, greens and earth tones is complemented by mid-century and fashionable up to date furnishings.
The resort’s two eating places are designed in response to the cuisines they symbolize. Lucciola is designed to seize the spirit of Italy with tiled flooring, plaster partitions and banquette seating whereas the Japanese restaurant, Zoku, contains a slatted-wood ceiling that’s impressed by origami, semicircular sales space seats and a wall of Crittal-framed glass.
The resort’s terrace bar stands out for its three-storey inexperienced wall on the facade above and light-weight, contemporary palette together with patterned aqua materials and assertion wall of book-matched marble.
The rooms listed here are open and versatile of their format with design options starting from Crittall-framed glass doorways to woven padded headboards. The penthouse suites have a full-length terrace with views over Wan Chai. In these suites, navy and gray velvets and tweeds distinction with the yellow of their velvet sofas.
