Award-winning Swedish interior designer Martin Brudnizki has reimagined London’s much-loved, centuries-old Fortnum & Mason store within the modern surroundings of Victoria Dockside’s K11 Musea. A familiar Fortnum’s colour palette of eau de nil and regal red sets the scene for the store, where playful “functional follies” make for an immersive shopping experience, from the Tea Counter, inspired by the traditional culture of tea tasting, to the build-your-own hamper station where goods are displayed in timber-panelled shelves.
“There’s this interesting juxtaposition between putting a very classical concept into a very modern building,” says Martin. “The result is a look that’s very elegant and Georgian, while at the same time feeling modern, with some quirky fun elements.”
A sweeping staircase crafted from marble and brass, softened by a surrounding hand-painted mural by Melissa White, leads to Fortnum’s 181 Restaurant. Here, views over the Hong Kong skyline can be had from the warmth of a typically English interior, enlivened by the eccentric layering of textures and colours that Martin Brudnizki Design Studio is known for. The restaurant’s yellow Gallio Sienna marble bar marks the focal point of a room that’s enveloped in fabric wall coverings by Robert Allen, a stained timber parquet floor and a geometric corniced ceiling. This is not just somewhere to shop, eat and drink, but somewhere to dwell between tradition and modernity, London and Hong Kong.
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Photography: James McDonald
