Guests first step into a den or central hub, where an impressive library featuring curved floor-to-ceiling shelves showcase a curated collection of tomes on a range of topics including film, music, architecture, history and art. An olive tree, a work by French visual artist William Amor, takes root at the centre, evoking a touch of the Mediterranean basin that Richard Mille holds dear.

“This place must feel like entering the mind of Richard Mille, the man. We sought to define his most important ideas and inspirations. My father has an insatiable curiosity, an incredible capacity for openness, even though his extremely generous and humane personality is also very complex. The idea was to sum up this multifaceted personality in one place,” says brand director and Mille’s son, Alexandre, who was in Singapore for the boutique’s launch.

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An in-house team based in the brand’s Paris head office came up with the concept for the boutique, which took three years to construct. While the team will draw inspiration from the “mood and spirit” of the space for future boutiques, it will not replicate this exact design anywhere else, says Alexandre.

“We never want to be too comfortable and copy-paste the concept everywhere else in the world. What we will take from this space is the thought process of designing it and how it inspired us and translate that to other locations,” he adds.