Fresh off the back of multiple wins at the recent Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards, Smart Design Studio’s Indigo Slam project has triumphed at another prestigious ceremony, the 2017 Australian Interior Design Awards.
Receiving the Residential Design Award and the principal Premier Award for Australian Interior Design, the Sydney residence was described as “standing head and shoulders” above all the other contenders in its category and “unable to fault” by the judges. The heavily lauded project was the only one to collect multiple gongs.
“This project is a private residence, but also hosts events for the client’s art gallery, celebrating unconventional domesticity through dual functionality. The home is defined as much by a sense of a thoughtful restraint, as it is by immaculate detailing,” said the jury who noted the home’s intimacy despite its grand spaces. They commended the project for its “pockets of intimate domesticity that are a gentle reminder that as impressive as the project appears, it is indeed a home to be lived in.”
SJB’s ‘A Private Residence’ continued its award-winning run (it too enjoyed success at the 2017 Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards), taking out top honours in the Residential Decoration category.
“SJB impressed us with their thoughtful and sensitive approach in delivering an outcome that responds to the needs of a mature-aged client. The design also eschews trends and instead celebrates the building’s grand heritage while reflecting the client,” said the judges.
Delivered on Friday June 9 in front of 500 interior design and architecture practitioners and professionals, this year marks the fourteenth year of the awards.
2017 AWARDS AND COMMENDATIONS – Residential
Premier Award for Australian Interior Design
Smart Design Studio for Indigo Slam, NSW
Interior Design Impact Awards
Woods Bagot for Paramount by The Office Space, NSW
Museums Victoria Design Studio for First Peoples, VIC
Emerging Interior Design Practice
Brad Swartz Architects, NSW
Commendations
Amber Road, NSW
BoardGrove Architects , VIC
Adam Kane Architects, VIC
Residential Design Award
Smart Design Studio for Indigo Slam, NSW
Commendations
Brad Swartz Architects for Darling Point Apartment, NSW
Eugene Cheah Architecture for Henry Street House, VIC
Doherty Design Studio in collaboration with Inarc Architects for Fitzroy Residence, VIC
SJB for A Private Residence, NSW
SJB for Redfern Terrace, NSW
John Wardle Architects for Freshwater Apartment, VIC
Architects EAT for Moving House, VIC
Residential Decoration Award
SJB for A Private Residence, NSW
Commendations
Templeton Architecture for Little Parndon, VIC
Doherty Design Studio for Fitzroy Residence, VIC
Carole Whiting and Steven Whiting for Hotham, VIC
