HOMECOMING QUEEN

She's spent year expanding her Rosewood Hotel Group around the world. Now Sonia Cheng is shaking up top-end hospitality back home with the launch of the Rosewood Hong Kong. She tells Oliver Giles how her family's heritage is woven creatives who helped bring it to life

Photography CALLAGHAN WALSH Styling JUSTINE LEE

Everything you see in the new Rosewood Hong Kong has a tale to tell. The entrance of the grand ballroom is framed by intricate leather panels crafted by Atelier Mériguet-Carrère, a Parisian design studio that worked on the restoration of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. The walls of guest rooms are wrapped in wool woven by Loro Piana in rural Italy. More than 150 chandeliers, lamps and lanterns were designed for the property by a team in New York. Perhaps the most interesting story, though, is not about luxurious fittings from far-flung corners of the world but about a local family that made its home in Tsim Sha Tsui. “I grew up on this site,” reveals Sonia Cheng, CEO of the Rosewood Hotel Group, as she looks out over Victoria…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2019

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