“There'll go aught only beauty, wealth, pleasure,
With all things inward monastic say in addition to measure.”
Charles Baudelaire, l’invitation au voyage, (in Les Fleurs du mal)
Kee Club
Kee Club could go the exact embodiment of Charles Baudelaire’s poesy form from which the lines inward a higher house are extracted. This social club is indeed a existent ‘Invitation to the Voyage’: a classical European residence amongst African sculptures in addition to pieces of arts from the greatest (Pablo Picasso in addition to Anthony Quinn to mention only a few), richly decorated amongst precious colors in addition to Bauhaus designed 1940’s furnishings.
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| Photo Credit: Kee Club |
China Club
China Club volition build you lot move at the pump of 1930’s Shanghai. Each room astonishes in addition to enchants: the lime greenish staircase in addition to its Chinese artists gallery, the fine art deco eating theater in addition to its Roaring Twenties vocalist accompanied past times a grand piano, the “Long March Bar” in addition to its trinkets from roughly other time, the library in addition to its thousands of books devoted to Chinese fine art in addition to culture, the terrace in addition to its breathtaking stance on the illuminated skyscrapers…
Red Chamber Cigar Divan
Although it is non strictly speaking a mortal club, the Red Chamber Cigar Divan deserves to look inward this selection. This bedchamber volition please cigar in addition to brandy lovers: large Club armchairs, a refined ornament at the crossroad of Asia in addition to Western influences, in addition to a alternative of the finest cigars in addition to liquors.
Hong Kong Royal Yacht Club
Originally situated on an isle inward the middle of Victoria Bay, the Yacht Club has been progressively reattached to the coast only is all the same floating on the sea. The commanding stance of the Bay in addition to the Titanic-like ornament compass the impression to board a prestigious cruising ship. An anchorage which brings together sailing in addition to body of body of water lovers from all over the globe.
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| Photo Credit: Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club |
FCC
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club is non reserved to the sole reporters in addition to journalists anymore only it is all the same bustling amongst effervescence in addition to the press photos roofing the walls yell back roughly of the around memorable moments of the recent past. H5N1 house steeped inward history which remains sum of energy.
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| Photo Credit: FCC |
- Kee Club, 32 Wellington St, Central, (+852) 2810 9000.
- China Club, 12/F, The Old Bank of China Building, Bank Street, Central, (+852) 2521 8888.
- Red Chamber Cigar Divan, Shop 405-406A, Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, (+852) 2165 6630.
- Yacht Club, Kellett Island, Causeway Bay, (+852) 2832 2817.
- FCC, two Lower Albert Rd, Central, (+852) 2521 1511.
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