Retail · 2024
Manlia Crème
Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
- Location
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
- District
- Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island
- Year
- 2024
- Category
- Retail
- Scope
- Interior Design · Visual Merchandising · FF&E
- Client
- Crème Group
- Size
- 180 sqm
An Italian fashion label brought to Hong Kong by a leading retailer — a monochromatic palette punctuated by earth-toned accents.
Manlia Crème introduces an Italian fashion house to the Hong Kong market through a quiet, gallery-like retail interior.
The design holds to a strictly monochromatic palette, allowing the merchandise to provide all colour in the room. A spare grid of solid display plinths and minimal wall-mounted fixtures keeps each piece in clear view.
Earth-toned accents — caramel leather, burnished metal, and warm timber — soften the otherwise reductive shell, creating a refined and confidently understated environment.
— Location & Context
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island
The store sits in Causeway Bay, the highest-footfall retail district in Hong Kong, where shop frontages are narrow, ceilings are tight, and every metre of wall carries merchandising value.
The plan responds to that pressure with a perimeter-first strategy: display is pushed to the walls and a single island plinth holds the centre, keeping circulation clear during peak weekend trade.
Lighting is tuned for Hong Kong's long retail hours — a warm 3000K wash on the walls with tight accent spots on the plinths, so the shopfront still reads with clarity against the district's saturated night-time signage.
— Gallery
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A closer look at the depth of design — material, light, and detail.
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— Materials & Approach
A palette that ages quietly.
- Honed travertineSpecified
- Caramel leatherSpecified
- Burnished metalSpecified
- Fluted oakSpecified
