Linehouse's contemporary Hong Kong restaurant takes its cue from the life of cross-cultural pioneer John Anthony and references a retro, east London Chinese canteen.
Designed by Shanghai and Hong Kong-based architecture and design studio Linehouse, the restaurant is named after John Anthony, the first Chinese-born man to be naturalised as a British citizen, in 1805.

Anthony worked for the East India Company at Limehouse in London's east end, where his job was to provide food and lodging to arriving Chinese sailors.
"The design drew on John Anthony's journey, exploring the fusion of architectural styles and materiality between east and west as well as colonial architecture blurred with eastern detailing, to create a British tea hall turned Chinese canteen," said Linehouse co-founder Alex Mok.
Throughout the restaurant, Linehouse explored the materials Anthony himself would have encountered on his journey: hand-glazed tiles, natural and racked renders, terracotta, hand-dyed fabrics and hand-woven wickers.
John Anthony guests enter down a staircase made of white metal and back-lit with diffused glass. The entrance offers a hint of the interior's lime green terrazzo floor and triple-height arched ceiling, clad in pink tiles. The pink arches are reflected through the space in high-level mirrors.

The main dining hall aims to reinterpret the storehouses of London's docklands with a vaulted ceiling. The floors of this main hall are paved with reclaimed terracotta tiles...