[Hotels And Photos] The Robertson House By The Crest Collection

[Les grossman]

Formerly Park Hotel Clarke Quay, The Robertson House by The Crest Collection (its name an eponymous nod to Dr J. Murray Robertson, a prominent British municipal counsellor largely credited with transmogrifying Singapore's once fallow central swamplands into a hectic wharf district circa the 1880s) may be misperceived as evangelizing colonialism, given ostensibly impenitent showcases emblematic of entrepôt trade witnessed at every turn: mondo black-and-white stills capturing teeming dockside activity, cartographic prints delineating the long-defunct East India Company's Asiatic reach, multitudinous rattan fixtures, even the hotel lobby itself is smothered in some nutmeg and clove-tinged scent. Then again, there's no denying this whole "colonial-chic" affair, for better or for worse, does indeed pique.

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[Taylorshit]

Looks quite stylish....

 

[Aaron carter]

This motherfucker Murray Robertson used to smoke opium with scum in dens....

You find yourself in what looks like a 19th-century opium den. There is a bed to recline on and a pipe at its centre. Illustrations of labourers smoking opium plaster the walls and the heady fragrance of the drug – or rather, an incense meant to simulate its scent – fills your nostrils.

This, you are told, is where J. Murray Robertson, a prominent colonial-era Municipal Councillor, entertained his less savoury contacts, like triad leaders.

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[Taylorshit]

Wow, now why am I not surprised

 

[k1976]

This motherfucker Murray Robertson used to smoke opium with scum in dens....

You find yourself in what looks like a 19th-century opium den. There is a bed to recline on and a pipe at its centre. Illustrations of labourers smoking opium plaster the walls and the heady fragrance of the drug – or rather, an incense meant to simulate its scent – fills your nostrils.

This, you are told, is where J. Murray Robertson, a prominent colonial-era Municipal Councillor, entertained his less savoury contacts, like triad leaders.

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That is an atas entertainment for VVIP back then...now can go jail

 

[Les grossman]

This motherfucker Murray Robertson used to smoke opium with scum in dens....

You find yourself in what looks like a 19th-century opium den. There is a bed to recline on and a pipe at its centre. Illustrations of labourers smoking opium plaster the walls and the heady fragrance of the drug – or rather, an incense meant to simulate its scent – fills your nostrils.

This, you are told, is where J. Murray Robertson, a prominent colonial-era Municipal Councillor, entertained his less savoury contacts, like triad leaders.

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More at https://www.straitstimes.com/life/f...ogue-in-singapore-59-years-after-independence