Love letters inspire Ashley Sutton’s latest Hong Kong interior designs

Mar 3 , 2018

Australian interior designer Ashley Sutton inside his latest Hong Kong creation, the IFC Mall restaurant Dear Lilly.

Ashley Sutton’s latest offering, restaurant Dear Lilly at IFC Mall is inspired by real wartime love letters. We love all his other designs in Hong Kong too; let’s take a look

With the opening of the restaurant Dear Lilly on Hong Kong’s IFC Mall rooftop, during Lunar New Year, we have entered another fantasy world created by Australian interior designer Ashley Sutton.

This time Sutton’s inspiration for the all-day dining restaurant has come from real love letters and poems sent from soldiers in the first and second world wars to their lovers back home.

The words of these letters have been etched in the marble inlays on the restaurant’s floor, or are floating above the bar, while vintage black and white photos of couples can be seen throughout.

We wanted to return the love with this collage of photographs showing some of the amazing interiors of Hong Kong places created by Sutton, a former iron-ore miner, including the bars Yojimbo, Ophelia and J Boroski.

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We love his edgy style, which leaves a lasting impression on all those who enter into his spaces.

Dear Lilly

Sutton has created all the wrought iron features inside the restaurant himself.

Sutton makes all the wrought iron features himself

Love letters and poems are featured on marble inlays

The ceiling is made from wrought iron chandeliers and dried lavender

Photos and mementos from the first and second world wars are featured throughout Dear Lilly