With a lobby ceiling stripped bare to expose 78-year-old paintwork and with dentist chairs surreally placed beneath vintage fans, Singapore's New Majestic Hotel newmajestichotel.com makes a striking first impression. Then again, 34-year-old owner Loh Lik Peng didn't make his name by pandering to conventional notions of

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nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu) innkeeping. The lawyer-turned-hotelier's first property, Hotel 1929, saw a colonial-era terrace on the fringes of Chinatown transformed into a modish haven of 32 small but eccentrically styled rooms.

The latest venture, a couple of streets away, is a grander vehicle for his bohemianism. There are avant-garde...