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André Fu: Crossing Cultures With Design

 by Catherine Shaw (Thames & Hudson)

Over the past decade and a half, Hong Kong native André Fu has risen to become one of the most in-demand and recognised interior architects in Asia and perhaps the world. His understated luxury graces hospitality spaces from Hong Kong, Singapore and Seoul to London and New York. Modern but classically inspired, Asian but globally inspired, his aesthetic is perhaps best described by author and regular Design Anthology contributor Catherine Shaw as ‘not about combining styles; rather, it rests on an ability to navigate very different cultures and styles and to reflect contemporary culture not based on any one model, but on the inherent qualities of beauty’.

This work showcases 18 projects, and while the stars are undoubtedly the beautifully realised interiors of such properties as the St. Regis Hong Kong and The Berkeley, London, Fu’s product designs for Lasvit and Tai