“There'll live on nil but beauty, wealth, pleasure,
With all things inward monastic say together with measure.”
Charles Baudelaire, l’invitation au voyage, (in Les Fleurs du mal)
Kee Club
Kee Club could live on the exact embodiment of Charles Baudelaire’s poesy form from which the lines to a higher house are extracted. This guild is indeed a existent ‘Invitation to the Voyage’: a classical European residence amongst African sculptures together with pieces of arts from the greatest (Pablo Picasso together with Anthony Quinn to refer but a few), richly decorated amongst precious colors together with Bauhaus designed 1940’s furnishings.
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| Photo Credit: Kee Club |
Red People's Republic of China Club
China Club volition build yous move at the pump of 1930’s Shanghai. Each room astonishes together with enchants: the lime greenish staircase together with its Chinese artists gallery, the fine art deco eating theatre together with its Roaring Twenties vocalist accompanied yesteryear a grand piano, the “Long March Bar” together with its trinkets from only about other time, the library together with its thousands of books devoted to Chinese fine art together with culture, the terrace together with its breathtaking persuasion 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 bedroom volition please cigar together with brandy lovers: large Club armchairs, a refined ornament at the crossroad of Asia together with Western influences, together with a choice of the finest cigars together with 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 but is yet floating on the sea. The commanding persuasion of the Bay together with the Titanic-like ornament hand the impression to board a prestigious cruising ship. An anchorage which brings together sailing together with 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 together with journalists anymore but it is yet bustling amongst effervescence together with the press photos roofing the walls retrieve only about of the virtually 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 Red People's Republic 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, ii Lower Albert Rd, Central, (+852) 2521 1511.
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