A Sybarite is a devotee of luxury and pleasure with an appreciation for the finer things in life.
For architects Torquil McIntosh and Simon Mitchell, the co-founders of Sybarite, the name perfectly described the company culture they wanted to create back in 2002. Now, twenty one years later, the London-based architectural and design studio continues to innovate and inspire in the global world of luxury fashion, retail and hospitality, bringing a creative vision to projects that makes them outstanding. The studio’s projects can be seen in cities all over the world, with international fashion brands among their clients.
Eleven years ago, Sybarite began working in Asia, with the transformation of Shin Kong Place, a shopping mall in Beijing, China, into SKP Beijing, a luxury department store. Following the success of SKP Beijing, Sybarite created a new 20-storey, luxury landmark SKP store in Xi’an, China’s former capital, currently China’s largest luxury department store with over 1000 brands. SKP-S Beijing opened in 2019, located opposite the original SKP store and is regarded as offering a benchmark experiential retail experience, this was followed by SKP-S in Xi’an in 2021. In December 2022, SKP Chengdu was unveiled – the first sunken luxury masterplan of its kind sitting in parallel to a park which was created for the citizens of Chengdu.
Sybarite continues to design and conceptualise department stores, shopping malls, hospitality projects, monobrand and lifestyle projects in both the traditional and experiential worlds for notable clients internationally.
