fluoro Giveaway: An Experience at Hotel Mono

fluoro are giving away a two-night stay, worth over AUD$500, to Singapore’s distinguished new design space, Hotel Mono.

A remarkable addition to Singapore’s Chinatown district, the Hotel Mono premises was once a rundown budget hotel housed in six early-1900s conservation shophouses, which has been transformed to radiate an assertive design language. Conceptualised to appeal to the visually driven, design conscious consumer, the hotel was created with a simple, and almost frugal palette of materials and colours. These elements have been applied consistently throughout for a unique brand experience brought to life by award-winning architecture and interior design firm SPACEDGE.

While Hotel Mono’s black-and-white façade along Mosque Street has been gathering its share of attention, the modern, elegantly-designed interiors have plenty to offer as well. Guests can enjoy high-end bedding, upscale bathroom amenities and spacious functionally designed rooms while they enjoy what Singapore has to offer.

William Chan, Chief Designer and Founder of SPACEDGE, spoke with us about the design of the space and the hotel’s true power, which he sees as being in its refined modesty. “I feel simplicity is the antidote to today’s highly complex, fast-paced and anxiety-filled world,” he said.

Chan said that the hotel’s physical elements imbued the hotel with its own sense of singularity that helps it stand out from the rows of hotels dotting Singapore.

“I wanted to showcase a strong visual appeal and design that is very easy to understand, for visitors to interact with the space,” he said. “The use of simple materials or even unassuming objects to create the ‘spark’ produces unexpected results.”

“I hope to present visitors with the feeling of experiencing a very fresh and different concept,” he added, “akin to being in a ‘prototype’ hotel which is original and authentic.”

When guests enter the hotel, they are immersed in a sizeable lobby featuring a cantilevered reception and a six-metre, illuminated wall ledge alongside a custom-designed 10-seater bench. Every room was designed with the design-savvy traveller in mind, with a seamless metal bar cutting across the spaces that functions as a light fixture, coat hanger and sculpture. No two rooms are exactly the same, due to the unpredictable architecture of the shophouse units, and each unit exudes its own sense of style.

A monochromatic design theme has been applied to Hotel Mono, with a dizzying array of black and white fixtures and elements offering visitors an aesthetically pleasing experience alongside their comfortable stay.

“The monochromatic approach is an art. and art has distinctive characteristics,” said Chan. “When this approach is layered with graphical and structured elements, it becomes visually powerful.”

When designing Hotel Mono, Chan said he needed to tackle an impressive host of issues: understanding site conditions, working within the client’s budget, prioritising design plans, and amalgamating construction methods, design details and colour palettes, amongst many other things.

“I also consider the meaning of the design i.e. the reason and purpose, aesthetics, and ultimately, the benefits that it can provide,” he said.

For Chan, Hotel Mono was an opportunity to apply his own experience as a designer, always looking to innovate in an industry that is already so demanding of its creatives, to a boutique space within a bustling city-state.

“Since the start of my own practice I am constantly pushing boundaries to produce unconventional and meaningful designs for everyday life, which will last well into the future.”

Singapore is a city that is renowned for its high-class living, its achievements in the realms of technology, education and other sectors, and its unique confluence of cultures in the heart of Southeast Asia. Situated in Singapore’s historic Chinatown district, visitors can avoid some of the more tourist-saturated areas of Singapore and enjoy their stay in a culturally authentic quarter of the sprawling city-state. The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Red Dot Design Museum and Chinatown Heritage Centre will all prove lovely stops in an enthusiastic traveller’s itinerary.

We are offering readers the chance to immerse themselves in a paradise of architecture and interior design with an experience at Hotel Mono. The giveaway includes a three-day, two-night stay for two in Hotel Mono’s Double Room worth over AUD$500.

This giveaway has closed. 

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www.hotelmono.com

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