The Mermaid's 住宅インテリアデザイン by Marty Chou is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in インテリア空間・展示デザイン Competition Category.

鉄インテリア· 2020

The Mermaid's 住宅インテリアデザイン

by Marty Chou

Client: Ms. Lee

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in インテリア Category

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The Design

About The Mermaid's 住宅インテリアデザイン

「The Mermaid's」は、台湾にある90平方メートルのアパートメントのための住宅インテリアデザインです。この空間は、一般的な住まいではなく、施主のコレクションを展示するギャラリーとして構想されました。新たに加わったコレクションの人魚のフィギュアが中心的なテーマとなり、セミモノトーンの色彩構成と静謐な雰囲気を決定づけています。デザインの手法としてクラシカルなモールディングを採用し、垂直のラインによって空間をより高く感じさせるとともに、居室のドアや収納キャビネットを巧みに隠しています。日常的な機能を隠すことで、視界をシンプルに保っています。家具は、直線的なフォルムと曲線的なフォルムのコントラストが生まれるよう選定されました。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

The Mermaid's 住宅インテリアデザインは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。The Mermaid's 住宅インテリアデザインは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。The Mermaid's 住宅インテリアデザインは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: During the design, came a new collection - a little Mermaid. Her serene quality caught me and my mind started to evolve around her. She became the focal point and anchor of the space, the tone of the ambiance, and the source of the semi-monochrome palette.

In the end, the entire space is the extend-dimension of this fantastical creature. She is the soul of this space; the soul that reflect the essence of the elegant lady.
Dimensions & Packaging: The interior space is 90 square-meter.
Tags: Interior design, Home Gallery, Modern Classic, Minimalism, monochrome space, monochrome palette, Taiwan
Production Technology: The classical molding here is used not merely as decoration but more as a design tool. Its vertically stretching quality makes the space appears to be higher than it actually is. It also hides away the doors of rooms and storage cabinets, unified and simplified the visual elements, and create a sense of serenity and calmness for the space.
Design Challenge: The main challenge of this project is about finding balance, mainly between practicality and fantasy, decorative and minimal, classical and modern.
Research: This project is an experiment of utilizing the owner's collection not merely as ornament, but to be the main concept and inspiration of the space. And also, to incorporate the owner's fascination of classical molding into contemporary design.
Inspiration: In the beginning, the owner of this apartment, an elegant and beautiful lady, told me that she would like to live in a place, where its ambiance is ambiguous, less like a home, more like a sanctuary in dream, in which she could be isolated and indulged with her on-going collections in this timeless, sacred space.
Project Duration: The project started in July 2017 in Taiwan and finished in June 2018.
Operation Flow: To respond to the owner's wish to live in a not-home-like place, I conceive the entire space as a gallery of her collections and display of her taste. Daily function and storage are hidden away to create a sense of optimal airy-ness, so the eyes only see the most essentials. Furniture selection focuses on the quality of contrast between straight and curve, thick and thin, light and heavy, as they are displayed sculptural pieces. As for the Mermaid, its elements are used throughout the entire space; the choice of materials, the fabrics, and colors, are all inspired by her.
Image Credits: Photo Credit: Kyle Yu Photo Studio