Bronze A' Design Award Winner 2025
Within interior design and spatial communication, the Taste of Luxury Residential House threshold composition activates multiple symbolic registers beginning with the fundamental architectural concept of the portal or gateway, the symmetrical arrangement and centered axis establishing this space as liminal boundary between exterior public realm and interior private sanctuary, with the formal bilateral organization suggesting order, balance, harmony, and the classical virtues of proportion and measure that have encoded social stability and aesthetic refinement since antiquity across diverse architectural traditions. The marble cladding carries substantial cultural weight, stone traditionally associated with permanence, solidity, wealth, and enduring value, its geological formation over millennia suggesting deep time and natural processes transformed into human artifice, while the book-matched veining creates mirror symmetry that doubles nature's randomness into intentional design gesture, the warm amber and caramel tones within cream ground evoking honey, precious amber resin, or golden light, chromatic choices that traditionally communicate warmth, welcome, organic connection, and accessible luxury rather than cold monumental grandeur. The sculptural console table's curved supports describing lyrical arcs suggest multiple symbolic readings: the lyre form connects to classical mythology and Apollo's attribute of harmony, music, and civilized culture, while the swan-neck curve evokes grace, elegance, and transformation, and the overall negative space framing creates symbolic threshold within threshold, an opening that allows vision to penetrate deeper into spatial layers while the solid tabletop maintains boundary and display platform for curated objects that communicate identity and values. The preserved pampas grass carries particular contemporary design vocabulary, its natural organic form suggesting biophilic connection and bringing exterior natural world into interior controlled environment, its neutral dried tone and feathery texture communicating bohemian refinement and relaxed luxury, while its fountain-like upward growth pattern creates ascending vector suggesting aspiration, growth, and vitality even in preserved stasis, the transparency of glass vessels suggesting clarity, purity, and refinement, while metallic decorative objects echo the architectural vocabulary reinforcing material coherence and precious material associations of gold traditionally encoding value, incorruptibility, divine light, and solar symbolism across cultures. The backlit mirror installation functions on multiple symbolic levels: mirrors traditionally represent self-knowledge, vanity, truth-revealing, and threshold between material and spiritual realms, while the backlighting creates ethereal glow suggesting transcendence, infinite space, or portal to other dimensions, the doubling of reflected space creating virtual architecture that extends physical boundaries and introduces ambiguity between actual and illusioned, real and represented, material and immaterial, the overall effect suggesting passage between states or realms appropriate for threshold positioning. The fluted vertical partition in cooler metallic tones introduces rhythmic repetition suggesting classical column vocabulary reduced to abstract linear texture, vertical orientation traditionally associated with aspiration, spiritual ascent, and hierarchical elevation, while the semi-translucent quality with backlighting suggests veiled revelation, selective disclosure, privacy maintained while allowing filtered communication between zones, the cooler tone providing temperature contrast to warm marble framing and suggesting the transition from warm intimate foreground to cooler more neutral territories beyond. The symmetrical positioning of wall sconces flanking the central mirror portal creates balanced illumination suggesting rational enlightenment, the paired elements evoking guardian figures or ceremonial markers flanking sacred or significant passages, their vertical crystal elements suggesting frozen water, clarity, preciousness, and light made visible through refraction and reflection, while the warm metallic bands in brass or bronze tone connect to solar symbolism and precious material traditions. The compressed warm neutral chromatic palette operating within ivory, champagne, taupe, and blush territory communicates refinement through restraint, the absence of saturated chromatic intensity suggesting sophistication that whispers rather than shouts, the warm temperature bias creating psychological warmth and welcome while maintaining dignified reserve, colors evoking natural materials including parchment, sand, aged silk, pearled surfaces, and precious metals in their most subtle manifestations. The channeled velvet ottoman introduces tactile luxury and functional seating, velvet traditionally associated with royalty, luxury, and sensory indulgence, its presence in threshold space suggesting welcome, invitation to pause, and accommodation of human comfort within formal architectural framework, the vertical channeling creating linear rhythm echoing the fluted partition while the soft yielding surface provides necessary counterpoint to hard reflective stone and metal surfaces. The coffered ceiling detail references classical architectural vocabulary suggesting intellectual and cultural heritage, the geometric division of surface creating order and measure while the recessed panels provide visual interest and architectural dignity elevating functional enclosure to considered design gesture. Proportionally, the space appears to engage golden section harmonies in the relationship between ceiling height and furniture scale, the classical proportion system traditionally associated with natural beauty, divine ratio, and aesthetic perfection, suggesting that the space participates in timeless design principles rather than merely contemporary stylistic trends, positioning the design within longer architectural lineages and cultural heritage of proportion-based beauty.
The Taste of Luxury project is an example of architectural design, blending classical elements with modern principles. Spanning 240 square meters, this residence includes three bedrooms and a living area, all featuring high-quality materials such as marble and brass. The design incorporates custom Italian furnishings and windows that allow natural light to fill the space, creating a refined atmosphere. Designer Reghina Ivanco carefully considered the client's wishes and made thoughtful adjustments to the layout to suit the needs of a family of three.