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Charmilles Zhao Is Honored with the A' Design Award for Monochrome House Residential in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Charmilles Zhao acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Monochrome House Residential by Charmilles Zhao, designed for Charmilles Interior Design, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Monochrome House Residential
Monochrome House is a residential interior design for a three-story house of 224 square meters in Yunlin, Taiwan. Living areas, the master bedroom and a children's room are placed on the first, second and third floors. Clean lines shape the framework, and black is used as the base tone with gray, white and wood colors. Art paint, grilles, fabric and black glass add texture within a limited budget. A custom L-shaped kitchen sits in the rear block, and an aluminum sliding door lets the kitchen open or close. Cabinets set below a low beam form a dressing area.
About Charmilles Zhao
Good at Nordic and modern style, with a precise control of color matching. Based on "people", we explore the characteristics of the original space and the environment, analyze, judge and integrate, to show the characteristics and advantages of the case through the perfect proportion of the lines and tone, meet the functional needs, and finally create a unique soul design, giving the brand image and space aesthetics new value.
Award Record
With this recognition, Charmilles Zhao is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/162703
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/162703
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!162703
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/356899
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Monochrome House Residential
- Function
- Residential
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Gainsboro, Silver, Dark Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Charmilles Interior Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Charmilles Zhao
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #162703
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The public area on the first floor is divided into front and rear blocks according to the position of roof beam, and then the functional field is refined according to the needs of owner. In addition to a custom-made L-shaped kitchen in the rear block, the multi-functional room the male owner expected very much is created through the space replanning. Before the decoration, the master bedroom is modified to remove the original compartment wall and achieve a large field.
- Inspiration
- A young couple bought an independent residence as the new home for their family of four members. Due to the owner's preference for modern style, the design adopts neat lines to build the basic framework, and the black tone which is the male owner's favorite tone is taken as the basic tone, mixed with gray, white and wood colors, supplemented by art paint, grille, fabric, black glass and other elements, and finally achieve the owner's expectations for the home in a limited budget.
- Research
- In order to add a sense of light luxury to the simple space of modern style, the design uses a lot of glass elements. For example, the main bed background wall decorated with divided lines is modified by black mirrors in the local area; the handle of TV cabinet and some door pieces are also made of glass material, which improves the level of variability.
- Challenge
- Faced with a limited budget and a need to maintain a sense of light luxury, the solution turns to the building materials replacement, replacing the thin sheets originally planned to be decorated on the TV wall and sofa background wall with art paint and wood panels respectively, which not only reduces the cost, but also maintains high texture. The TV wall adopts the pearlescent art paint, with hand-drawn patterns, to present a low-key gorgeous feeling spontaneously.
- Realization and Technology
- As for the other roof beam that runs through the aisle, creating a sense of pressure to press the space under the beam, the elevation space below the beam is transformed into a storage space with iron hangers and systematic cabinets after assessing to leave the appropriate width of the aisle. In this way, it not only completely avoids the trouble of walking under the beam, but also has an additional place to hang the coats and clothes, so that the master bedroom has the function of internal and external dressing rooms.
- Operation and Interaction
- The living area on the first floor starts with a large layout. The use of an aluminum sliding door allows the kitchen to switch freely between open and closed, and does not hinder the smooth communication with the living room. In terms of details, the kitchen countertop is expanded, and its extended countertop is used as the bar of middle island to play the dining function, but also improves the relationship between the kitchen and the dining table.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project took 4 months and was finished in March 2024 in Yunlin, Taiwan.
- Specifications
- This is a 224-square-meter, three-story house, with the living areas, master bedroom, and children's room arranged on the first, second, and third floors, respectively.
- Keywords
- Charmilles Interior Design , Interior Designer, Taiwan, Interior, Residence
