Innovative Dutch design company Droog opens a Hong Kong store

Renny Ramakers is excited to show off Droog's new branch in Hong Kong. "You must see the living room," she says, bounding up to the top floor of the three-storey building on Square Street in Sheung Wan.

The walls are covered in green, floral wallpaper; in the middle of the room sits a cluster of mismatched furniture painted in red. "We asked people to donate their second-hand furniture," Ramakers says.

"And over here, look at the toilet," she adds, gesturing at glass walls obscured by a metallic veneer. "It changes depending on where you stand."

It's eclectic and eccentric - the qualities for which Droog is known. Founded in 1993 in Amsterdam by Ramakers, a design historian, and Gijs Bakker, an industrial designer, the brand is at once conceptual and commercial.

In the early 1990s, it made its mark by showcasing irreverent pieces suchas Tejo Remy's Chest of Drawers, a jumble of second-hand drawers, and Rody Graumans' 85 Lamps chandelier, a bouquet of ordinary incandescent bulbs.

Recent pieces such as Arnout Visser's laboratory-inspired Table Tap jug and Remy Jungerman's Nobody is Protected boardroom lectern, covered by a thicket of microphones, maintain the spirit of those early works.