{"id":264648,"date":"2025-10-15T09:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=canvasflow&p=264648"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:37:45","slug":"ki-club-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/ki-club-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"KI Club Delights With Its Tranquil Hues And Luxe Vibes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sharing space with the upper-level dining area is the lounge and bar, where all the furniture is custom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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October 15, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Petra Loho<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Harold de Puymorin\/HDP Photography Services<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

KI Club Delights With Its Tranquil Hues And Luxe Vibes<\/h1>\n\n\n

Ever wondered what became of Barbara Handler\u2014aka Barbie\u2014after the 2023 film? Perhaps she traded Malibu for Hong Kong, her true birthplace, where Barbie and Ken first tumbled off the production line. With Ruth Handler\u2019s advice to chart her own path still echoing, she steps into a city that, like her, thrives on reinvention. KI Club, an invitation-only kitchen showroom and event space on the top two floors of Hong Kong\u2019s Cubus complex, feels like the kind of setting she\u2019d choose to explore a new indulgence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s because half of the 2,600-square-foot penthouse club is bathed in pink, a beloved color of Sandra Wong, founder of Kitchen Infinity, which has distributed such luxury European kitchen brands as Gaggenau, Molteni&C, and Poggenpohl throughout Hong Kong and Macau for the last 30 years. She\u2019s also the vision behind KI Club, for which she sought more than a traditional display space, one that emitted femininity and social buzz but also neutrality and a feeling of home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How NC Design & Architecture Reinvents KI Club<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For the upper-level dining area at KI Club, a private kitchen showroom and event space in Hong Kong, NC Design & Architecture installed a nearly 20-foot-long custom marble table, lined it with custom chairs, and backed it with CNC-cut screens for an environment that\u2019s intimate and upscale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA standard showroom is simply boring,\u201d says Nelson Chow, founder and design director of NC Design & Architecture<\/a>, which brought Wong\u2019s vision to fruition. Instead, his studio created a stagelike milieu where chefs, friends, and collaborators cook and comingle. Inspired by Tuscan wineries, KI Club modernizes classic vaulted architecture while honoring its heritage. A layered layout guides guests through distinct yet connected environments across its two levels, which each have a singular color scheme\u2014Wong\u2019s beloved ros\u00e9 or calming blue. Defined by striking dualities\u2014female and male hues, solid and void, festive and serene\u2014the concept invites memorable experiences that balance hospitality with the comforts of home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guests arrive on the 28th floor, greeted by a lounge, bar, and dining area that are an ode to Barbie and Wong\u2019s preferred shade, but done with depth and restraint. Paneling of Italian Begonia Rosa marble, veined like a summer sky at dusk, anchors the room. Large eye-shape ceiling fixtures by Tino Kwan are fitted with soft pink LEDs. Chow\u2019s heart-shape sofas and chairs further the theme, upholstered in dusty-rose boucl\u00e9. \u201cPlaying with pink is deceptively tricky,\u201d continues Chow, who studied fashion after earning his master\u2019s in architecture. \u201cYou have to master the form, the layers\u2014textures, marble, fabrics, carpets\u2014it\u2019s like orchestrating a landscape. The key is it never gets too cute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Barbie Pink Palette Reigns In KI Club<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sharing space with the upper-level dining area is the lounge and bar, where all the furniture is custom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Helping with that, on the walls not clad in marble, Hong Kong\u2013based French artist Elsa Jeandedieu<\/a> applied her signature oscillation technique, shaping lime-mineral surfaces into leaf-inspired patterns. Brass panels frame the fireplace, yielding a gentle glow. Guests seated at the 20-foot-long, marble-topped dining table with their backs to the fireplace face pale-blush screens CNC-cut with mesmerizing rows of uniform circles. \u201cThey were inspired by the vibrant streets of Milan, drawing on the communal aspect of eating at long outdoor tables on the street, in front of beautifully crafted doors from different eras,\u201d Chow says about the club\u2019s screens and doors, which are also decorated with metal studs. It all adds up to a refined celebratory vibe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One flight down, the mood shifts. Brazilian Cielo Blu marble surrounds the 27th-floor dining area and cooking studio, surrounding them in oceanic calm. If the lounge was Barbie at the party, this is Barbie at home\u2014barefoot, in the dream kitchen, the convertible parked for the night. The tranquil palette invites focus: on a souffl\u00e9 rising, on flavors arranged with architectural precision. It\u2019s a culinary atelier where knives are sharpened, skills honed, and ideas exchanged. Part performance, part workshop, the show kitchen, boasting all Gaggenau appliances, hosts residencies, tastings, talks, and the Culinary Artisan Series, where 14 of Hong Kong\u2019s Michelin-starred chefs lead intimate cooking sessions, transforming herbs and blooms harvested from a secret rooftop garden into farm-to-table experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doors on the lower level, where walls are decoratively painted by artist Elsa Jeandedieu, open to a balcony.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A door and handle in Brazilian marble lead to a restroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The lower-level dining area is part of the cooking studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

KI Club\u2019s material narrative is equally precise. Another 20-foot-long marble dining table appears in the blue dining area; both are divided into three sections, with every joint treated as an opportunity for creativity. Wavelike seams link the slabs with a soft gesture, turning a technical necessity into a design detail. Plus, the tables\u2019 apparent solidity is an illusion: A recessed lacquer band between each top and base delivers monolithic presence with material economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chow extends the motif to the club\u2019s restrooms, from their door hardware to their sinks, all in marble. Through a water-jet technique that allowed intricate cuts without compromising the stone\u2019s integrity, the handles and sinks are flowing, undulating forms, representing a significant challenge achieved. And texture extends beyond stone. The boucl\u00e9 seating fabrics, from Italy and France, invite touch. High-gloss lacquer sharpens furniture with a tailored snap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Materiality Delivers Luxe Vibes At This Hong Kong Club<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Italian marble and brass surround the lounge\u2019s fireplace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A subtle spiritual reference threads through the project, as well. On weekends, Wong, who dressed in head-to-toe pink for KI Club\u2019s opening last March, hosts Sunday gatherings and bible studies at the showroom. A quiet cross motif emerged from this gesture: A constellation of metal studs appears on the screens, handles, and the door to the balcony, delicate enough to carry meaning without a strong religious tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chow is responsible for another thoughtful and discreet flourish. \u201cI\u2019m quietly thrilled by the lounge\u2019s sliding brass-and-marble panel that hides the TV. It\u2019s practical yet sculptural,\u201d he says of the screen used for culinary demonstrations. It subtly disappears, and the room resets to let conversation and community take center stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walk Through KI Club In Hong Kong<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Custom LED ceiling fixtures by Tino Kwan cap the vaulted plaster ceiling in the lower-level dining area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Custom stools serve the bar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The same marble appears in that floor\u2019s restroom, along with brass Venti sink fittings and a custom mirror.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Custom studs double as door handles, blending form and function.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
PROJECT TEAM<\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n

NC DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE:<\/strong> ALLY SO; MATTHEW LUNG; TESSIE TSE; EDDIE WONG; GARY LIANG. TINO KWAN LIGHTING CONSULTANTS: <\/strong>LIGHTING CONSULTANT. DECCA HK: <\/strong>CUSTOM FURNITURE WORKSHOP. STONEWEALTH: <\/strong>STONEWORK. ALPHA CONTRACTING: <\/strong>GENERAL CONTRACTOR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRODUCT SOURCES<\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n

FROM FRONT GESSI: <\/strong>SINK FITTINGS (REST\u00adROOM). THROUGHOUT GAGGENAU: <\/strong>APPLIANCES.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n