Steel and marble take centre stage in ex-office Hong Kong apartment
A former office space has been given a minimalist makeover in which the luxurious bathroom takes centre stage, writes Jane Steer
It started with a tap. Not just any tap, but a rather beautiful black mixer by Dornbracht that now arches gracefully over a white marble sink in the bathroom of a one-bedroom, 650 sq ft apartment in Sheung Wan.
“I love it,” says the apartment’s designer, Candace Campos, founder and creative director of ID-entity Design.
“The bathroom fixtures were the design inspiration for the space and the first things I purchased.”
In keeping with its star status, the tap is visible throughout much of the apartment thanks to a glass wall framed in oxidised black steel. Viewed from the living areas, the sturdy rectangular windows act as a display case for the bathroom’s gleaming white marble wall, large circular mirror and those black fixtures. It’s the apartment’s “ta-da!” moment. (The bathroom’s shower and toilet reside discreetly behind a steel sliding door.) The owner of this gorgeous bathroom is a design professional who splits her time between Hong Kong and London.
“She was a fantastic client,” Campos says. “She liked my design aesthetic and said, ‘Give me an apartment in 12 weeks’, and let me get on with it. For us, 12 weeks seemed a long time – we’re used to doing restaurants with a deadline of eight weeks.”
Campos has designed interiors for restaurants such as Fatty Crab and Cocotte. Currently, she is putting the finishing touches on the Tribute boutique hotel in Yau Ma Tei, due to open this year.