In creating The Art of Timeless Spaces, their new coffee-table book featuring the work of their studio, AB Concept, founders and designers Ed Ng and Terence Ngan would have been confronted by a store of extremely disparate residential and commercial projects that stretched back almost 25 years. We imagine ‘What to cover?’ turned quickly into an existential koan of ‘What to leave out?’
The solution was to confine the 336 thick pages of this handsome hardcover tome, published by Rizzoli, to projects created since 2018 - a five-year period during which, the book points out, ‘priorities have changed and luxury is more likely to apply to concepts such as time, space, wellness and consciousness than the big-time bling of the past.’
