Bronze Interior · 2026
Lart du Pouvoir Residential House
- Bronze A' Design Award 2026 in Interior
- CLIENT: Private Client
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 10,413
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About Lart du Pouvoir Residential House
Lart du Pouvoir is a residential interior project crafted for a powerful, independent female homeowner. The space expresses strength through softness, blending clean structure with fluid lines. At its core lies a sculptural curved ceiling inspired by a queen's cloak symbolizing grace and power. Smart home integration enhances daily life with subtle control, while stone textures and warm woods bring balance and refined ambiance. The layout is intentionally open, yet grounded with warmth and emphasis.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Lart du Pouvoir Residential House is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Lart du Pouvoir Residential House is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Lart du Pouvoir Residential House splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- This project responds to the client's vision of a home that reflects her personality: strong yet composed, artistic yet practical. It addresses the challenge of expressing identity through subtle spatial gestures while integrating advanced smart living technologies without compromising aesthetic quality.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Project area: 82.5 square meters. featuring dual-curved vaults.
Key materials: engineered wood veneer, brushed bronze metal, geometric ceramic tiles, and marble.
Smart system: Aqara (controls lighting, air conditioning, curtains, projector, environmental sensors, and energy monitoring).
Kitchen system: Stosa, Italy. - Tags
- smart home, feminine power, curved ceiling, modern interior, marble cladding, customized millwork, Italian kitchen, Taiwanese residential design, Muji minimalism, warm neutral palette
- Production Technology
- The project was crafted through meticulous traditional carpentry, executed entirely by local artisans. Custom millwork was seamlessly integrated with brushed iron structures, marble cladding, and three-dimensional ceramic tiles. The smart home system utilizes Aqara to control air conditioning (warm/cool), curtains, lighting, projection screen, and environmental modes. It also monitors energy consumption in real-time. The kitchen features premium cabinetry from Italian brand Stosa, selected for its refined finishes and ergonomic functionality.
- Design Challenge
- The key challenge was sculpting the ceiling to convey symbolic leadership-lowing yet restrained. It required multiple scaled mockups, structural negotiations, and finish tests to find the curve's ideal softness. Meanwhile, integrating full smart systems invisibly, while preserving minimalist purity, was a technical and aesthetic balancing act.
- Research
- Research focused on spatial emotion and behavioral flow. Interviews and lifestyle observations of the client revealed a desire for quiet strength and low-profile elegance. Light behavior mapping and thermal studies supported the ceiling design, while system logic trees for the smart home defined the user's ideal routines. The result is a space where meaning and automation coexist.
- Inspiration
- The design was inspired by the client - a woman whose presence is calm yet commanding. At the first site visit, she said, "I do not want a flat ceiling, but nothing too dramatic either." That moment led to the idea of a flowing cloak, translated into a dual-curved ceiling. The entrance features a bold geometric floor, referencing a chessboard as a metaphor for control and elegance. The space merges softness with structure, using materials and smart systems to reflect quiet authority.
- Project Duration
- The project was carried out from June 2024 to February 2025 in Taichung City, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- The home responds to the user's presence intuitively. With voice or app control, curtains draw, lights shift to preset scenes, the air adjusts to a comfortable temperature, and the projection screen emerges from the marble wall. Each transition is designed to feel fluid and theatrical, yet discreet-reinforcing the user's control over the atmosphere.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Justin Khaw Wei Quan, Lart du Pouvoir, 2024.
Image #2: Photographer Justin Khaw Wei Quan, Lart du Pouvoir, 2024.
Image #3: Photographer Justin Khaw Wei Quan, Lart du Pouvoir, 2024.
Image #4: Photographer Justin Khaw Wei Quan, Lart du Pouvoir, 2024.
Image #5: Photographer Justin Khaw Wei Quan, Lart du Pouvoir, 2024.