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Singapore – Hospitality company The Lo & Behold Group is gifting the local community a public reading room and tea salon.
Located in the lively Kampong Glam neighbourhood, LookSee LookSee is an intimate public reading room that doubles as a tea salon serving home-grown speciality tea in hand-crafted vessels by a local ceramicist, all for free.
Set in an 1820s shophouse in a district steeped in arts and culture, the communal space by leading hospitality business The Lo & Behold Group aims to bring the city’s burgeoning creative scene a step closer to the public. Its evolving library is curated by thought-leaders across various lifestyle sectors as a show-and-tell of titles that have inspired their work and life.
Featuring gently scalloped banquette seats and reading nooks, the open space is designed to welcome a collaboration of creative minds while providing a quiet retreat from the neighbourhood’s eclectic surroundings.
The venture operates on a gratitude system where guests can choose to tip as a gesture of appreciation. The Lo & Behold Group managing partner Wee Teng Wen believes LookSee LookSee is ‘a good way to give back to the community’ and an extension of its hospitality values.
More businesses are creating communal spaces that engage with the streetscapes and embody a strong sense of locality. For more, download our free Placemaking report and read our New Urban Guilds microtrend.