{"id":219731,"date":"2025-10-17T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219731\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:22:09","slug":"uchronia-designs-mandarin-oriental-hotel-suite-as-underwater-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219731\/","title":{"rendered":"Uchronia designs Mandarin Oriental hotel suite as “underwater world”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Design studio Uchronia<\/a> has showcased works by British artists, including chairs made from extruded plastic<\/a> and seafoam-green glass sculptures, in a suite at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for Frieze Art Fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The suite, which comprises a bedroom, bathroom and lounge, is decorated in the hotel’s signature celadon-green shade, developed with colour specialist Pantone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is designed by Uchronia<\/a> to have an underwater feel and will be available for guests to stay in for the next two months.<\/p>\n

\"SuiteThe suite at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park features celadon-green details<\/p>\n

“We’ve been invited by Mandarin Oriental to reinterpret their colour, which is a colour that they developed with Pantone,” Uchronia founder Julien Sebban told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“It’s this celadon green from which we decided to create an underwater world, because it reminded us of those really beautiful greens that you can see under the sea.”<\/p>\n

Uchronia wanted the hotel interior to also showcase British craftsmanship and worked with a number of UK studios to create original pieces for the suite.<\/p>\n

\"BedIt is decorated with products by Uchronia and British designers<\/p>\n

“What we wanted to do is to highlight British crafts by working with amazing British people to create some very fun pieces,” Sebban said.<\/p>\n

Among the designs on display are moire fabrics by Govindia Hemphill<\/a> created to resemble dripping water, as well as curtains that nod to coral formations.<\/p>\n

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Uchronia designs Cafe Shin to be “halfway between Paris and Seoul”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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“The curtains are this idea of coral and this really fun, weird underwater world,” added Sebban.<\/p>\n

The bedroom also features furniture made from extruded plastic by designer James Shaw<\/a> and a flower lamp designed by Uchronia.<\/p>\n

\"TurquoiseA resin desk sits in the lounge<\/p>\n

In the lounge, a desk made from resin and a bench designed to resemble corals decorate the space, while the bathroom has glassware designed by glass artist Jochen Holz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We really wanted to show that the tradition of Mandarin Oriental can be highlighted, with the modernity that we try to bring in a very joyful way,” Sebban concluded.<\/p>\n

\"LargeThe bedroom has a bedspread designed to resemble dripping water<\/p>\n

The design of the suite was unveiled at the start of this week ahead of the London edition of the annual Frieze Art Fair.<\/p>\n

Uchronia, which was named emerging interior designer of the year at Dezeen Awards 2023<\/a>, have also recently given London store Koibird a colourful overhaul<\/a> and designed a French cafe to be “halfway between Paris and Seoul”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is courtesy of Mandarin Oriental.<\/p>\n

Frieze London<\/a>\u00a0runs from 15 to 19 October 2025. See\u00a0Dezeen Events Guide<\/a>\u00a0for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Design studio Uchronia has showcased works by British artists, including chairs made from extruded plastic and seafoam-green glass…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75,101311,17646,4472,49626,51145,101604,3585],"class_list":{"0":"post-219731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-frieze-art-fair","16":"tag-hotels","17":"tag-london","18":"tag-sectionall","19":"tag-sectioninteriors","20":"tag-uchronia","21":"tag-uk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}