Inside a Family’s Chic Hong Kong Apartment

At the front, an enfilade of reception rooms opens onto an expansive terrace planted with delicate foliage and trees including a Hong Kong orchid. There is a generously sized back garden, too. Though, here, the French landscaper Arnaud Casaus conceived of something more tropical: the space brims with foliage and palms and fragrant fruit trees, such as lychee and star fruit.

The planting was done at the same time as construction, long before the interiors, to allow for growth and to give it more of the look of fully grown suspended gardens jutting out from the building. From within, there is a glimpse of ​​green from almost every angle. It is what Marty calls “a bubble of lushness,” in step with a bustling city ensconced in nature. “I love this town so much: its verticality, density, energy…it’s even ‘more’ than New York. Plus, you can see the sea from almost every point of view; it’s a city that is very connected to nature because of its topography,” Fournier adds.

A view of the primary bedroom. A Pierre Paulin Pumpkin chair wearing Jules & Jim fabric stands in the corner, and a Pampukh bench by Faina stands at the foot of the bed.

In the primary bedroom, a bespoke enclosure of maple burl with panels of a Pierre Frey fabric wraps around the bed area.

Greenery was top of the list for these clients, as was a home well suited to family life. And while there is a clear division between public and private, with the bedrooms upstairs—a main bedroom with his-and-her dressing rooms, a study, the children’s room, and a den—and shared living downstairs, even the formal rooms are for everyday use. “They are sophisticated epicureans, and they pay a lot of attention to their children and how they live,” Marty says of the clients’ profile. The children’s bedroom contains the first Studio KO–designed bespoke double bunk beds.

Studio KO–designed bunk beds define the kids’ room.

From the moment you set foot inside and arrive in the entry hall, there is a sense of occasion. The wide reception hall is fitted with deep-red lacquered wall panels with a graphic Galerie Diurne rug Studio KO designed from a Gabrielle Chanel archival pattern over French oak flooring. That refined elegance flows throughout the living spaces, too, which follow a progression from the dining room, with its mirrored and French cane wall paneling and marble dining table and set of Pierre Jeanneret chairs, through the salon to the music room through a series of jade-colored marble frames.