Managing consultant Corinne Ng in her Brutalist home. Shermin Ng This article first appeared in Harper’s Bazaar Singapore, the leading fashion glossy on the best of style, beauty, design, travel and the arts. Go to harpersbazaar.
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SINGAPORE – Having honed and cultivated a directional sense of taste – thanks to an illustrious career in fashion media and marketing that has spanned over 20 years – managing consultant Corinne Ng, 50, employs the same approach to her home curation as she does her wardrobe. The chic abode, which she shares with her 50-year-old husband, who works in finance, and two daughters – 20-year-old Li-En and 16-year-old Kae-Lin – is the perfect backdrop to her expressive style and artistic narrative. Built from the ground up, the concrete-and-steel construct is the result of a 21⁄2-year journey embarked upon by the couple and renowned architect Edmund Ng, who is known for his modernist, clean-lined designs.
Ms Ng became acquainted with Mr Ng through his wife Jazz Chong, a friend of hers who owns local gallery Ode To Art. While Ms Ng deferred to her husband’s penchant for an industrial aesthetic and monochrome palette, she was very much involved when it came to injecting warmth and joy in colour. A striking artwork by Indonesian artist Hono Sun brings colour to the fair-faced concrete wall.
PHOTO: NATSUKO TERUYA; STYL.