Starbucks Reserve
The Coffee Origin and the Quiet of a Long Sip
STARBUCKS RESERVE
The Starbucks Reserve in Landmark – a luxury mall where people move fast – needed a wall that slows them down. Not the usual two-tailed siren I used to do. Instead, we went into the coffee plant and the misty forest where coffee is grown.
Bold cherries. Unfurling blossoms. A whole misty, foggy rainforest behind it all. The kind of climate where coffee actually grows – wet, lush, half-hidden.
Client: Starbucks Reverse
Location: 3/F, Landmark, Central, HK
Size: 8 x 2.3m
Date: April 2026
I added my signature gold frames. Not rectangular. Contemporary, oriental-shaped stripes that cut through the painting like windows into another depth. They turn a flat wall into layers, with the coffee patterns (beans turned into exclusive motifs, latte art repeated like fabric), behind that the landscape, and behind that… just fog.
The fog does the real work. It makes you want to walk closer.
There's a whimsical flavour to this wall – not sweet, but misty. It tells a farm-to-cup story without a single word. You see the mist, the cherry, the leaf, then the gold frame opens into a lounge where someone takes a long sip.
At 8x2.3 meters curling around a curved wall, it doesn't shout. It wraps.
Shoppers with ten minutes for coffee. Office workers stealing twenty. Visitors from somewhere else, jet-lagged and looking for a corner. The mural gives them the same thing: a retreat inside a mall. Not a distraction. A visual anchor that says, "Stay a while."
The Coffee Origin and the Quiet of a Long Sip
That's the brief. And that's what coffee origins actually feel like – damp, rich, quiet, and worth every sip.