How designer Tina Norden gave Feast restaurant at East Hong Kong an interior revamp for the times
- East Hong Kong enlisted the architect and interior designer with Conran and Partners for its makeover
- ‘Don’t be afraid of colour and of mixing styles together,’ says Norden
Interpretation
“The brief was to take the best bits of Feast and then marry in some of the functions that were maybe lacking previously. Although Feast was modern when it opened, there’s now a lot more demand for a type of shared workspace. Adding Domain, a cafe, would give guests a more casual food option, somewhere that would serve people through the day.
“Chef Mark Percy wanted to keep the semi-buffet but was keen to open up the kitchen more, to take it out from behind the glass wall and make it more lively and engaging. All of these elements had to be layered into the existing space.
“We thought about the gradation of materiality. We wanted the restaurant tones to be darker, warmer and more cosseting so it’s much, much richer on that side, while on the Domain side, which is more of an approachable, interactive daytime space – with cakes and coffees and bread being baked – it’s much brighter with lighter colours.
“The idea was to always have the two extremities with that gradation between the two; even the timber slatting goes from very, very light to very, very dark to give us that merging of the two spaces.”
Challenges