Design studio Linehouse set out to ‘break the hotel narrative of serious spaces and strict boundaries’ with Hong Kong guesthouse Ying’nFlo.

The polished apartment hotel takes over a high-rise in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district, with muted tones and apartment-style rooms that lend the hotel a laid-back atmosphere and gives guests a sense of home comfort – emphasised by the lack of a check-in desk or staff (visitors use an app instead).

Linehouse chose a palette of terracotta, white, beige and grey to create a supremely serene set of rooms, offset by interesting shapes – think reeded furniture, saucer-esque wall lamps and rainbow-shaped floor lights. The studio describes the aesthetic as ‘curated simplicity’.

Even the hotel’s communal spaces are designed with the home in mind, laid out as a series of connected rooms that encourage a ‘seamless flow’. One of these, The Collectors Room, is designed as a kind of gallery filled with artworks and objects and located next to an outdoor courtyard. There’s also Ying’nFlo’s Music Room, which is intended as a place for guests to lounge on sofas and socialise.

The hotel offers several sizes of rooms, starting at around HK$1,200 per night, including a kitchenette.

3-5 Wan Chai Gap Rd, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

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