ACCLAIMED HONG KONG ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER, AND FOUNDER OF AFSO
With several accolades under his belt, including Designer of the Year at Maison et Objet 2016, 42-year-old Andre Fu has designed several projects around the world like The Opus Suite in London, The Fullerton Bay Hotel closer to home, and another large-scale hospitality project in Hong Kong which he recently completed – Kerry Hotel.
He has also collaborated with several renowned brands such as luxury lighting company Lasvit, where he showcased a collection at Euroluce, Salone del Mobile Milan 2017. We caught up with him when he was in town to judge the Asian Hotel Awards, part of the Singapore Design Week.
How is Kerry Hotel different from other hospitality projects you have designed?
It is probably one of the largest projects I’ve done so far. Typically, the works I do tend to be of a more intimate scale, but this luxury hotel has a much larger volume. It has a ballroom that boasts a capacity of over 100 tables – almost double the size of ballrooms in regular luxury hotels in Hong Kong.
What’s interesting to me is the challenge of infusing a sense of “relaxed luxury” into such a vast project, while still making it feel intimate.
How do you define “relaxed luxury”?
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