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Inside the Hong Kong mansion of the Harilelas, one of city’s wealthiest families

  • Featuring an eclectic mix of design styles and lavish interiors, the Harilela family’s Kowloon Tong complex is one of Hong Kong’s most distinctive homes
  • The sprawling mansion houses more than 90 people and includes the Mogul Room, which would not look out of place on a Bollywood set

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The impressive Mogul Room in the Harilela family complex in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon.

One of Hong Kong’s most storied families, the Harilelas live in a 25,000 square foot (2,322 square metre) complex in Kowloon Tong.

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Built in the early 1970s, the structure is a sprawling mansion housing more than 90 people, evenly split between family members and staff.

The family, who moved from India to Hong Kong in the 1930s, made their fortune selling textiles to British and American forces during the second world war and then the Korean war.

They subsequently developed a thriving tailoring business and went on to establish a hospitality group with properties in Asia, Australia and Europe.

 

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