The story of L’atelier Fantasia began with the love for poetry that Idan Chiang, its founder, and design director, had since she was a child. Over the years, this love led her into the field of design and gave rise to one of the most vibrant design studios in Taiwan. Through the efficient and harmonious interaction of Design, Decoration, and Art Departments, L’atelier Fantasia creates exquisite projects in which aesthetic excellence is balanced with engineering craftsmanship, providing clients with a pleasant and comfortable living environment. The studio’s recent Sotai project vividly demonstrates the sophisticated approach and competent eclecticism of styles that have led Luxury Lifestyle Awards experts to name Idan Chiang and her team among the best in the industry.

The design style of this case is based on neoclassical architecture, injecting music and childlike elements into the space and combining artworks to present a living space with both taste and style. The space is dominated by creamy gray, integrating different brand furniture in the space and enhancing the overall coordination through fabric selection and matching. The fully open public area creates a sense of openness and transparency, making the space appear bright and fluid. The design of the guest bathroom space uses black and white interlocking lines with stylized line panels and hardware to make the space and products consistent.

The space combines warm white tones and creamy gray, presenting a moderate nobility and the spirit of Denmark. Music is one of the elements that the owner’s family values, so the main wall of the living room, which is decorated with a pure white piano, uses a large area of the precious amethyst white jade marble wall, replacing the traditional neoclassical design of linear panels. The design of the whole project focuses on the harmony between space and art so that the design of space and art decoration can be connected. Therefore, the design of the guest bathroom is inspired by the image design of the fragrance brand Jo Malone, and the sense of lines and elements are extracted and placed into the space so that the products can also become one of the artworks of the space and echo with each other.   

The design makes various configurations and adjustments according to the client’s living habits and needs. The corridor leading from the living-dining area to the bedroom is specially designed with a hidden door separating the public area from the private area, and the living-dining area extends to the open center island kitchen, allowing the hostess to receive guests while in the kitchen. This is a series of works based on natural biomorphic design, reinterpreting the characteristic elements of GUBI-Beetle Counter Stool, with a solid outer shell and a soft interior, combining classical aesthetics with the refined concept of modern Scandinavian design.

The overall space is focused on decorative design, but the decoration is not a flat dynamic installation art, and the technique used cannot be thought of in the traditional way of flat artwork decoration. Therefore, when planning the decoration space, we need to design the wall and make the space coordinated, and at the same time take into account the function. Through the planning of color and shape ratio, the space is shaped into a stable visual sense, and the lines are between abstract and figurative, making it imaginative.

Neoclassicism originated in the second half of the 18th century. It is a blend of many elements, including elegant and delicate style, aesthetic characteristics of nature as the prototype, the concept of beauty to present nature, emphasizing rationality and commonality, in the interior design emphasizes the slender lines while focusing on functionality. Decorative details are delicate and exquisite. In this design case, the team embodied this artistic aesthetics through the integration of art into life, bringing decorative art and space design to the level of a humanistic aesthetic, emphasizing the relationship between man and society in contemporary art in the context of pulse.

In the master bedroom dressing room, the owner wanted to design a functional storage space by discussing the number of bags and accessories, the way to store long and short clothes, and the height of the folding drawer and customizing the dressing room according to the owner’s lifestyle. The design can be presented in a more organized and demanded way.

Art is the key point to create life, through the diversified and inclusive neoclassical meaning combined with contemporary art, to design the home space for a family of four. According to the client’s taste for art and music, and the need to live with children, the team injected music and childlike elements and combined them with organic sculpture lines, through design and matching. The space is perfectly harmonized to produce artistic beauty, cleverly matched with artworks, leading to the soul of the space.