From Courtyard Logic to Contemporary Dining: Inside IN.X’s Four Seasons Min Fu – Sentosa

In Singapore’s competitive dining landscape, this restaurant turns Beijing legacy into architecture: thresholds, ritual movement, and material clarity. In Singapore—a port city shaped by migration, trade, and layered food cultures—hospitality design carries a heavier burden than visual refinement. It must establish origin, identity, and credibility within a dining ecosystem that rewards novelty but punishes inauthenticity. At Four Seasons Min Fu · Sentosa, Wu Wei of IN.X treats the brief as cultural translation: how does a Beijing-rooted culinary legacy arrive in Singapore without sliding into staged nostalgia? The first challenge is tone. Heritage-led Chinese interiors often drift into ornament-heavy pastiche, leaning […]