A Macau retreat where luxury, comfort and golf are par for the course
A Hong Kong family finds sanctuary in a Macau home with bespoke interiors that suit them to a tee
The view that sold it wasn’t of the glittering Cotai Strip nearby, but the green sweep of a golf club where the owner holds membership. For a Hong Kong businessman and his family of four, this tranquil vista turned a 3,500 sq ft apartment into the ultimate holiday retreat.
Situated where the 18-hole course meets the pulse of Macau’s entertainment district, the four-bedroom flat offered designer Max Lam Tsz-hong the opportunity to weave comfort and luxury into an apartment completed in 2019 but with areas requiring customisation.
“I envisaged the family being cocooned into a space of elegant Zen, where every surface – from floor, ceilings and walls to furnishings, lighting and architectural aspects – had been meticulously designed,” he says.
For a family accustomed to the finer things in life, this meant sourcing high-quality materials and enhancing them in refined pairings: in the dining area, an expansive wall of Calacatta gold marble makes a bold statement, married to a row of brass display cabinets. The adjacent living room answers with a curved travertine niche, set opposite a wall of light oak cabinetry in which sliding panels discreetly conceal a television.
To unite these split-level spaces, Lam employed a shared design language. He endowed both with a curved, concave false ceiling, concealing lighting in the layers; lined the step down with a marble tread; and repeated brass accents.