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2013 gold key AwArds

Best Hotel luxury | upscAle

winner

"Macalister Mansion is
inventive and a bit irreverent,"
says judge Larry Traxler.
"It embraces history while
providing an interesting new
definition of modern luxury."

Macalister Mansion
Penang, Malaysia

Ministry of Design (MOD) Pte. Ltd.,

The brief Transform a 100-year-old landmark
mansion into an appealingly contemporary
"lifestyle experience" in the form of a five-star
boutique hotel with eight rooms, five food and
beverage outlets, a gym and a pool. Conserve the
heritage spaces; make them practical but don't
lose the feeling of being in someone's home.
The magic MOD's design director Colin Seah
and his team used the firm's "question, disturb,
redefine" filter to deliver the holistic immersion
their clients wanted. Collaborating closely with
hotel owner Dato Sean and his wife Datin Karen
throughout the process, MOD found balance
between the building's colonial roots and its cool
new life by modernizing classical fundamentals
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with artistic flair and tongue-in-cheek wit. That
starts as guests drive in past a super-sized, faceted
bust of the property's namesake, Penang's British
Governor Colonel Norman Macalister. It continues
in the lobby, where the ornate doorways, original
brick walls and preserved cornices are juxtaposed
with the futuristic reflective copper face of the
reception desk and Mansor Ramli's video art.
The blue-and-white color scheme in the dining
room is perfectly colonial, but the central sculpted
white tree and a scattering of pastel animals add a
millennially provocative edge.
The Takeaway Tell one story. This project's fully
engaged owners not only hired MOD to do the
interior design; the commission covered everything
from big-picture assignments like the master plan
to details such as the graphics, uniforms, logo and
even a mineral water bottle label.

edwArd Hendricks

Designer

Singapore


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From the Executive Editor
The Buzz
2013 Gold Key Awards: Risk Rewarded
Dream Weaver
PRODUCTS: Wow-Inducing FF&E
Last Detail
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