First-time home buyer and entrepreneur Jessie Wong fills her house with locally made art and glass.
Jessie Wong picks up the phone from a tent, where she is eating gingernuts for breakfast because the rain is too heavy to venture outside. The 27-year-old founder of luxury bag brand Yu Mei is holidaying with her friends in Hahei. After the holidays she will be returning to her first home, which she bought with partner Jack Fisher, just before Christmas. Their house is a 1904 character villa that sits on a sheltered hill between Oriental Bay and Roseneath, a short 1.3km walk down the waterfront to Wong’s studio.