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    Mar 27, 2020 4 minutes
    Words Tracey Ingram

    André Fu doesn’t give too much away. You have the sense that behind his mild-mannered eloquence lies a sensitivity for space that’s difficult to explain. Perhaps that’s why I never fully appreciated an André Fu interior until I stepped inside one – or two, I should say. The Hong Kong native was responsible for two hospitality spots within the LTW-designed Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, which was completed in 2015. Kioku Japanese restaurant and Michelin-starred Yu Yuan Chinese restaurant gave me two tastes of Fu’s holistic and detail-oriented design methodology. To put it simply, his spaces don’t just look good, they feel good, too.

    At the age of 14, Fu left Hong Kong for the UK. He remained there for 14 years, following up

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