Would you pay HK$75,000 for a chair? Luxury Hong Kong furniture fair targets big spenders in showcase for city's design talent
Hong Kong’s inaugural international design furniture fair, featuring more than 40 luxury brands, today kicked off a weekend-long showcase of high-end products – including a chair by a local designer that costs HK$75,000.
Twenty-three exhibitors, mostly from Europe, are displaying their latest collections and targeting wealthy local consumers who have come to treat furniture items as “collectibles” rather than merely functional objects. One-day tickets for the weekend-long event, held at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai, cost HK$190.
Individual products on display range from around HK$3,000 for an individual chair to HK$75,000 for a wooden loveseat by veteran local artist and designer Alan Chan.
Chan said he believed Hong Kong had been “crying out” for a consumer-focused, high-end furniture fair for years.
“Creative people from all over the world use Hong Kong as a base – that is our edge,” he said.