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Designed with sustainability at heart, fashion reseller Vestiaire Collective’s Paris office looks and feels like a home, with its vintage mid-century furniture, custom lighting and curtains made from Covid mask fabric.

Having returned to London after 15 years in Asia, interior designer Alice Keswick has wasted no time stamping her inimitable signature style onto her Notting Hill town house.

Interior designer Liz Lau transformed a couple’s 2,000 sq ft flat in Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong, by focusing on simplicity, while making sure the detail was spot on.

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It took 14 drafts to get the layout of this stunning one-bedroom flat right, but for interior designer JJ Acuna and his clients, it’s the little things that matter.

When Nadia Zhu and Andrew Schantz bought their Mid-Levels flat they already knew how they wanted it to look, thanks to a file they kept of all the features they admired in hotels they have stayed in.

Interior design lacks respect in Hong Kong, says Horace Pan. To put that right he advocates better education, agreed standards, and continuing professional development.

As design enthusiasts, the homeowners were familiar with the work of JJ Acuna, who, despite never having worked on a residential project, accepted the challenge because of a focused brief and shared aesthetic values.

Designed by Rowena Gonzales of Liquid Interiors, this Mid-Levels flat was conceived using sustainable, non-toxic materials in keeping with its owners’ love of Bali.

Husband-and-wife team Eskyiu want to supercharge Hong Kong’s view of architecture, evident in their work on the new K11 Atelier office building in Quarry Bay featuring spaces the community can use on weekends.

An accident with the glazing on a ceramic vase led to one husband-and wife design team creating a series of items resembling poetic Chinese landscapes that is now on show at Design Spectrum in Hong Kong.

At the end of a winding lane near Sai Kung stands a modern home that shares the same bold eclecticism as the hotel interiors its tenant styles.

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The designer, Zeta Chu of Raz Interiors, was given free rein to transform a modern Clear Water Bay flat, with a new floor plan and lashings of white marble.

For the homeowners – both industrial designers – finding the right interior designer to renovate their Clear Water Bay flat was half the battle won.

A Mid-Levels flat was reconfigured and refreshed, with the previous ‘tiny, awful’ rooms removed to ensure every family member’s needs were met, including those of Buddy the bichon frise.

Emerging-talent spotter Ross Urwin, of Design Shanghai fair, has seen Chinese design mature dramatically; fair’s annual award, which this year went to design duo behind the 15° Chair, gives winners business advice and contacts.

Art consultant Georgia Manifold believes in buying pieces that resonate on a personal level rather than purely for investment purposes, and her passion is plain to see in the three-storey house she shares with her family

Kevin Chu’s Foglia lamp uses a process called photocatalysis to kill pathogens in what he says is the world’s first air-purifying device to be activated by non-UV light.