HOLLIS (Officer): His photography set the artistic look of Asiatica for decades. Products, models, mailers were so beautiful long before the Internet arrived and we communicated by mail only. His unerring eye and knowledge shows in all his timeless work.
HONG KONG: A magical place. Hot and sticky, chaotic, hustling, delicious, beautiful, entrepreneurial, full of hidden treasure, hustling, ferry-riding etc.
HORSTMANN (Charlotte):One of the world's most stylish merchants. Proprietor of Hong Kong's most iconic shop, collector and maker of classical Chinese hardwood furniture, charmer, and a significant inspiration for Asiatica. Our invoices are a copy of hers to this day.
HSIA KUEI: Brilliant Chinese Southern Sung Dynasty landscape painter about whom my Ph.D. dissertation was supposed to be written. Never did it. That left a lot more time for entrepreneurship instead of academia. Their loss!
HOTELS: So many stayed in for trunkshows, buying trips and pleasure. When they are good –The Mandarin in Hong Kong – they are grand.
HUMOR: A sense of which is essential for life itself.