Innovative design the key to squeezing furniture into Hong Kong’s tight spaces

It’s no mere flight of fancy that Hong Kong flats are shrinking: developers are purposefully squeezing more homes into a building’s footprint – responding to market demand, they say, with their “small-flat” strategies. So we’d better get used to the idea of doing more with less, with the help of cool-looking furniture designed to do double duty – as a statement piece and storage holder.

Among the elegant new collections now available in Hong Kong comes Sagitine, a premium brand of storage solutions created by Sydney-based fashionista Tina Clark.

Clark is a passionate shopper who had searched “in vain” for closet space worthy of her “treasured” collection of silks, cashmere and heels. So she created her own.

The result is a range of chic, elegant and functional boxes made from high-grade sustainable cardboard with monogrammed leather handles. Conveniently stackable, they come in three sizes and two classic colours – black and white – to hold everything from shoes, garments and accessories, and evening gowns. To maximise flexibility, Sagitine boxes can be purchased singly or with accompanying aluminium stands, which transform them into storage units.

Clark has also designed, as optional extras, a range of nature-inspired accessories to help keep the boxes’ prized contents clean and resistant to environmental changes - including aromatic pouches filled with organically grown herbs, beautiful English-made polished horn clothes brushes, cedar blocks and drawstring muslin bags.

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