Cumine Court Contemporary Chinese Revival, by Home Journal

The text below is a translation of the original Home Journal feature.

In May 2026, Home Journal featured Artwill's renovation of a roughly 2,000 sq ft flat at Cumine Court, North Point. The owners, two sisters who have lived there for over twenty years, asked not for a fresh start but for continuity: a contemporary Chinese home where their antique furniture and calligraphy collection could return to everyday life.

The feature centres on the project's defining move: the Manchurian stained-glass panes the sisters salvaged from an old Guangzhou house more than two decades ago. Artwill reincarnated this late-Qing Cantonese coloured glass as room doors and a bespoke screen, with one pane set into the screen anchoring the living and dining area, its bird-and-flower motifs echoed through the surrounding details. The century-old glass is extremely thin, so the team worked with veteran craftsmen to build a custom frame for each pane and adapt the fixing method to its condition.

In the dining room, Yang Yongliang's artwork hangs beside a custom kitchen sliding door patterned to carry the piece's visual language into the architecture; the hexagonal rosewood dining table with ice-crackle fretwork gained soft cushions and went back into daily use. In the bedroom, wardrobe doors carry three-dimensional floral mouldings echoing the stained glass, while a dressing table mixing a Western silhouette, shell mouldings and a Chinese twin-dragon motif is described in the feature as the home's signature East-meets-West piece.

Founder Regina Kwok tells Home Journal that Chinese style, handled well, belongs in daily life rather than behind glass. Calligraphy now lines the corridor along the family's daily route: the antiques are no longer a static display but part of life, used, passed and seen every day.

Originally published by Home Journal, 2026-05-28 · Read the original article