When conceiving our third incarnation within Galaxy Macau, our in-house architects were inspired by the history of the city’s streets—their names, their distinctive trades, their architecture. The designers were especially fascinated by Rua dos Faitiões, which had been home to multiple rice stores in the 1960s and 70s and known as ‘Rice Street’. With the advent of supermarkets, most of these traditional shops closed. One remains, however, and continues to provide locals with daily sustenance.
Our space is laden with nostalgia for small businesses of this ilk, taking material and formal cues from their once-ubiquitous wooden rice barrels. The compact room is sheathed in walnut timber cabinetry and acoustic felt in an earthy hue, with rounded corners and curves that extend up to the ceiling. A quartet of bronze basins occupies the centre, inviting visitors to explore our formulations with gently running water. At hand on the countertops and underfoot, a refined pebble terrazzo evokes scattered grains of rice.
