Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

Interior designer Ilse Crawford’s London practice Studioilse has created the interior for a multipurpose arts space and restaurant in central Hong Kong with a lush garden terrace overlooking the city (+ slideshow).

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

The owners of the Duddell’s venue asked Studioilse to design the interiors of the downstairs dining room, as well as a salon, library and roof terrace upstairs.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

All of the rooms feature an extensive array of artworks and are regularly used to host exhibitions and cultural events including discussions and film screenings.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

“The greatest challenge was to make a space that could change over time and to really understand what was going to happen there,” Studioilse’s creative director Sarah Hollywood told Dezeen.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

“We created spaces that would meet different needs during the morning, noon or night so it became a place of layers based on behaviour,” she added.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

Both floors perform different roles throughout the day, with the dining room hosting noisy dim sum lunches and more relaxed evening meals.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

The upstairs rooms are used for working, meetings and tea drinking during the day and become more vibrant, bustling spots for evening entertainment.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

Throughout the interior, Studioilse employed tactile natural materials such as wood, bronze, concrete and the silver travertine marble used to clad the reception area and stairwell.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

“Sensorial natural materials were chosen to provide a great, unusual background to the art instead of the normal white box background that art tends to be shown on these days,” Hollywood explained.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

Familiar Asian shapes and materials that appear in details such as the decorative panelled windows complement the traditional dim sum served in the restaurant and the regional art that is on show.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

“The key was to create a credible local identity rather than a pastiche,” said Hollywood. “We did this by incorporating a combination of Hong Kong cultural references together with some continental details in the mix.”

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

Tall plants surrounding the roof terrace give it the impression of a secluded garden, with green tones used on the upholstery of settees and armchairs echoing the colour of the plants and recurring across some of the furniture in the adjoining salon.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

The green theme continues in the restaurant downstairs, where plants line the windowsill behind a long bench seat covered in bright yellow cushions.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

Concrete floors and marble walls contrast with decorative rugs and sensuous floor-to-ceiling drapes in the upstairs salon.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

Bright red table bases and corner sofas help to give this space a more lively feel than the more refined restaurant downstairs.

Studioilse creates restaurant interior with secluded garden in central Hong Kong

Photography is by Robert Holden.

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Ett Hem Hotel by Studioilse

Ilse Crawford of Studioilse has converted a 100-year-old house in Stockholm into a boutique hotel filled with richly coloured wood, leather and velvet (+ slideshow).

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

First built in 1910, Ett Hem was originally home to a government official and his wife, who gave the building an arts and craft style with timber-panelled walls and decorative ceilings.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

Studioilse‘s renovation includes a series of communal rooms where guests are encouraged to relax in each other’s company. These areas centre around a kitchen, containing large dining tables and an assortment of seating areas.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

Other rooms include a library with bookshelves stretching up to the ceiling, plus a glazed conservatory where guests can choose to sit for breakfast or dinner.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

“The idea is a comfortable cultured house you can enjoy as if it is a friend’s,” said Ilse Crawford. “Sit in the kitchen, have a drink in the sitting room, pick up a book in the library or snuggle down by the fireplace.”

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

She added: “We hope that people who travel a lot will feel so happy there they wouldn’t want to stay anywhere else.”

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

There are six guest suites, five double bedrooms and one duplex suite on offer at the hotel. Each room comes with a mixture of vintage and modern furniture pieces, as well as a brass cocktail cabinet.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

Art and photography decorates the walls in each room and a few of Crawford’s own furniture designs are also included.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

London designer Ilse Crawford spent nine years leading interiors magazine British Elle Decoration before launching her own London studio. Her best-known projects include interiors at Shoreditch House in London and Grand Hotel in Stockholm.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

See more stories about Ilse Crawford, including an interview we filmed about her studio and work.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

Photography is by Magnus Mårding.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

Here’s some more information from Ett Hem:


The Ongoing Story of Ett Hem

Built in the first years of the twentieth century, this building was home to a government official and his wife, a lady with a love for the aesthetics of Karin Larsson, who collected objects, textiles and furniture from all over Sweden. This was a time when the home became the focus of art and life, and design was integrated into the everyday. The influence of the Arts & Crafts, the romantic notion of national character and the delight in the design of useful things, combined with an impulse to embed a family in a place through architecture. All together this created a very special moment for domestic architecture in Sweden.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

Ett Hem, built in 1910, dates from this moment. The house in Sköldungagatan was designed by architect Fredrik Dahlberg. With its protective brick shell it weaves a coat against the harsh Swedish winter. In its interiors it has both the robust, dark-timber-lined rooms of public life, the masculine realms. And the feminine realm of the private. Upstairs the house evokes the summery whiteness and lightness of Carl Larsson’s super Scandinavian interiors, feminine family spaces suffused with sun. Ett Hem has always been a container of beautiful things, the finest furniture, antiques and design. Today its spaces are inhabited not only by guests but by objects and art with real stories and histories, things that frame moments in a life.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

Like all the best Scandinavian hosts, Ett Hem is at home indoors and outdoors. The courtyard garden, a secret city wilderness, is a room every bit as important as the interiors, a place for relaxation and conversation, for a chilled bottle of wine or a steaming hot coffee. Personal touches are as important as the design in defining the everyday experience.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

The Life of the House

Ett Hem is not the usual hotel. If Ett Hem is an idea of home, of comfort and security, of familiarity, the other is an institution, a series of services. Ett Hem is something very different. It is active, where the guests can subtly shift the conditions, the atmospheres, the conviviality. A hotel is passive, a place that exists with or without you.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

While it has all the facilities expected today, Ett Hem is a place that allows the guest to become part of it. Guests are treated as friends of the family. They can turn on the television in the sitting room, borrow our car or take the dog for a walk. They can make themselves at home, help themselves from the fridge. The food changes with the seasons, the rooms warm up with stoves and cool down with a fresh breeze from an open window. Ett Hem is connected to the street and the sky, to the city, it is not a machine cut off from life outside. Ett Hem is as glamorous as it is casual, but while it is a luxury, it is not a luxury hotel.

Ett Hem hotel by Studioilse

The Experience of the Place

The value of Ett Hem comes through the pleasure of proximity to beautiful things, of being in spaces that tell a story, and through an ethic of generosity and care. And to a degree, of being left alone to live in a very special house. This from the moment you step through the college door, enter the courtyard into the garden and go up the steps to the front door. In the entrance hall a fire is lit when it’s cold outside, and fresh cut flowers from the garden are arranged on the table. Check in and wait for friends by the fire. Ett Hem will feel familiar. It is a place to use as you please. Downstairs in the sitting room there are sofas to sink into and games to play. The library, a room to disappear into, is stacked high with books you actually want to read. And the leafy glass house, where you can take breakfast during the day, or where you can enjoy a twinkling feast at night. Upstairs the bedrooms have a warm domestic feel with a sophisticated edit of vintage and new pieces in tactile materials such as cane, wood, leather and velvet. Each room has its own cocktail cabinet in gleaming brass. And throughout the house is the owners’ personal collection of art and photography. At the heart of it all is the kitchen. Furnished with a big table, comfy chairs and settles. It is a place to really feel at home. On open shelves everything is at hand. A generous fridge is full to the brim with tasty treats, healthy food, champagne and fine wine, yours to help yourself. A house guest is both privileged and respected. Privileged to be party to an intimate private realm and respected as an honoured invitee.

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Inside awards: Food Bar at the Grand Hotel by Ilse Crawford

Food Bar at the Grand Hotel by Studioilse

Dezeen Screen: London interior designer Ilse Crawford is one of the judges of the Inside awards. In this movie filmed by Dezeen she talks about designing the Food Bar at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm for chef Mathias Dahlgren. Watch the movie »

Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of entering the Inside awards and attending the festival in Barcelona from 2-4 November – simply quote VIP code DEZEEN when entering online at www.insidefestival.com. Entries close on 30 June.

Inside awards: TwoTwoSix Hollywood Road by Studioilse

TwoTwoSix Hollywood Road by Studioilse

Dezeen Screen: London interior designer Ilse Crawford is one of the judges of the Inside awards. In this movie filmed by Dezeen she talks about designing TwoTwoSix Hollywood Road, a five-storey apartment building in Hong Kong. Watch the movie »

Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of entering the Inside awards and attending the festival in Barcelona from 2-4 November – simply quote VIP code DEZEEN when entering online at www.insidefestival.com. Entries close on 30 June.

Above photograph is by Magnus Marding.

Inside awards: Ilse Crawford

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Dezeen Screen: Ilse Crawford is one of the judges of the Inside awards. In this movie filmed by Dezeen she talks about her studio in London and her work as an interior designer. Watch the movie »

Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of entering the Inside awards and attending the festival in Barcelona from 2-4 November – simply quote VIP code DEZEEN when entering online at www.insidefestival.com. Entries close on 30 June.

Tokyo Designers Week interviews: Ilse Crawford

Tokyo Designers Week 09: designer Ilse Crawford describes her vision of design that brings people together in this third short interview commissioned for the Tokyo Designers Week guide, produced by Dezeen. (more…)

Seating for Eating by Studioilse

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London Design Festival 09: Ilse Crawford of London designers Studioilse will launch a collection of wooden seating inspired by vernacular English furniture next week. (more…)