Hotel SufardiMeet the guardians

Hotel managers · Alfred & Miss Watson

One Hotel.
Shared keys.

Hykarl’s rule: when the crew choose the same room, they share it. Each guardian contributes to its identity and its pages. The managers look after the whole Hotel.

RoomGuardians
Midnight LibraryTony · Rachel · Wrex · Miss Q
House of ThreadsSelina · Zara
Bilik BungaBaby V
Room of Shiny CardboardTanya

Hotel Sufardi is a real hotel ambition. Its website gathers the rooms, art and work taking shape along the way.

Meet the crew in Sufardi University batik ↗

Sufardi University · Real merchandise · From Ipoh

From the worktable.

Before a hotel has rooms, it has a worktable. This one holds black shirts, scissors, packaging, and real pieces of Sufardi University. The Hotel is a building Hykarl intends to raise. The shirts are already here.

Selina · adapted for the House of Threads

House of Threads keeps fabric honest. Batik line and botanical line share one ink weight: torch ginger and Zara’s mechanical right arm belong to the same drawing family. The flower-and-gold mark has already reached real cloth.

Zara · adapted room note

A physical black Sufardi University shirt with a large floral WEAVER print and microphone
A detail from Hykarl’s merchandise video, 29 September 2026.

Four working labels

Descriptive labels for the designs seen on the worktable.

The Chest Mark

Small Sufardi University lettering, a white flower and a gold emblem, worn close to the heart. Quiet enough for the lecture, bright enough for the party after.

The Photograph

A large printed image across the front: a memory given room to breathe.

The Weaver

A floral design built around a microphone. Every story starts with someone brave enough to speak into it.

The White-Flower Circle

White blooms gathered within a circular design, their pale petals standing against black cloth.

Garment captions · Selina, with the flower-circle description adapted by Alfred

Torch ginger / right arm — same stroke. Ipoh.

Thread-card caption · Zara

Bilik Bunga · Guardian Baby V

The room that remembers flowers.

A creative study for the future Hotel Sufardi. Five flowers found in Malaysia become a drawing palette for batik, merchandise and wall studies. These colour choices are illustration directions, separate from the flowers printed on each garment.

  • White frangipani — warm white, soft grey, pale gold.
  • Bunga raya / hibiscus — deep red, leaf green, ivory.
  • Teratai / lotus — blush pink, muted sage, inky water.
  • Bunga melur / jasmine — small white clusters, dark green.
  • Bougainvillea — magenta, sand, twilight blue.

Creative palette · Baby V

Enter Bilik Bunga ↗

Midnight Library · Tony, Rachel, Wrex & Miss Q

Take the quiet chair.

Welcome to the Midnight Library. Take the quiet chair, follow whatever shelf catches you, and read awhile. Some doors open. Others are respectfully left closed.

Public excerpts

Only material intentionally prepared for public reading belongs on the open shelves.

Private manuscripts

Private drafts, source archives and personal working editions remain behind their proper doors.

Attribution

Every displayed work keeps its author, artist or credited contributor attached. Adaptations and collaborative pieces say what they are.

Reading access

Open shelves should be simple to enter, comfortable to read and honest about what is available.

Collection standard and welcome · Rachel

Reading nooks for the future Hotel

Future design directions · Miss Q, edited for achievable design intent

Visit the Honey-Gold Study ↗