Maison 89 of 100 · Hospitality
Peninsula
The reading
The Hong Kong house with the fleet of Phantoms and the tea that is a civic institution. Family-controlled, slow to add keys, allergic to management-contract sprawl.
The house
- Origin
- Hong Kong SAR
- Founded
- 1928
- Atelier
- Hospitality
- Ownership
- Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels
- Signature
- Peninsula Hong Kong / afternoon tea
- Register note
- Fleet of Rolls-Royces This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Its place in the register, counted
Sorted oldest first, the hundred put it 53rd. Counted inside its own room it stands 6th of the eight houses this register files under Hospitality. It is the only house here filed to Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels. It is one of three maisons filed here from Hong Kong SAR. Hospitality takes three of the register's Hong Kong SAR houses — Mandarin Oriental, Rosewood and this one. Its nearest founding years in the register are Tudor (1926) and Porsche (1931). The Hospitality room draws on five countries in this register, Hong Kong SAR among them. No. 89 places it in the fourth quarter of the register.