Exploring interior designer Alice Keswick’s apartment is like embarking on a treasure hunt through Asia. Having lived on the continent for 15 years – in Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh and Macau respectively – she has travelled the region in pursuit of furniture, lighting, fabrics and objects that reflect the traditions and artisanship of their place. “I’m definitely inspired by the orient,” says Alice. “I love oriental elements within the home, even just the small details, like my pagoda ornaments, Chinese wallpaper panels, bamboo chairs, or birdcage lamp. I’ve become really interested in collecting extraordinary china as well.”

Moving every few years, Alice has become accustomed to laying down roots fast. “I’ve always been someone that really nests,” she says. “Someone once said to me, ‘wherever you live, pretend that you’re going to be there for the rest of your life.’ That’s very much my ethos.” The latest place this has taken hold is in a bright and airy apartment on the Peak where Alice calls home with her two young daughters. She may have only lived here a year but the space feels well lived-in – intimate at the same time as being well thought out by Alice’s design eye. Family heirlooms such as her grandmother’s desk and framed sketches drawn for her mother by fashion designer Bill Gibb combine with Vietnamese antiques, 1stDibs finds, custom-made furniture and reupholstery jobs awash with colour and pattern.

“It’s a real amalgamation,” says Alice of her interiors. “A collection of things from the last 15 years, from all these places, that somehow work together.” Of course, their “working together” derives from the coherency in Alice’s taste – one that has seen the ex-Storm model explore fashion design before turning her hand to interiors three years ago. “I am drawn to warmer colours – reds, soft sands, mustard yellow. I’m also really obsessed with fabrics from my background in fashion. I love patterns and prints and textures, and finding clever ways of combining them without them feeling like too much. Sometimes clients can be overwhelmed by the pairings but, used in the right way, they can be beautiful.”

This can be seen repeatedly throughout Alice’s home. There’s the open-plan sitting room and dining room in which a colourful ikat rug, Soane-covered cushions and a Manuel Canovas-upholstered chair and stool are balanced by the earthy tones of a sisal carpet, wisps of wild grasses picked on Lantau, bamboo dining chairs, wooden floors, a Matilda Goad rattan lampshade and a wash of greenery from outside the floor-to-ceiling windows that are framed by gauzy pom pom-trimmed linen curtains made by Alice. Then there’s the children’s playroom with its “funny feeling” pink painted walls and pink velvet sofa combined with vibrant green palm print blinds, reflected in the colours of a pair of artworks by Tishk Barzanji hanging on the wall.

Pink and green recur independently throughout the apartment too, from the bubblegum-pink walls contrasting with white tiles in the bathroom and the fairytale-like bedroom of Alice’s daughters, in which a Jane Churchill Beatrix Potter wallpaper coats the space, to her “favourite thing right now,” a pair of pink velvet stools embroidered with tigers, found on 1stDibs. Outside, on the bougainvillea-draped terrace, a pastel green bench sourced from a dealer in Zhuhai is decorated with cushions that Alice covered in Jim Thompson fabric, and compliments the washed-out yellow exterior of the building and tiles underfoot.