Singgahsana Atelier
Selected Works · 2009 — 2024
Each year the atelier accepts a deliberately small number of commissions — never more than forty-two, often fewer. The pages that follow are a selection of that work: principal-led, single-team, fixed-price. To discuss a project of your own, the studio opens with a paid consultation of S$280.
Three condominium interiors from the past two seasons — small footprints, large gestures, budgets between S$280K and S$640K. Each handled by one principal designer from sketch to handover.
The studio does not chase trends, nor does it warehouse finishes. Over fifteen years a small vocabulary has been gathered — used often, understood deeply, made in our own workshop when the brief asks for it.
Timber arrives as European oak, Burmese teak and the occasional figured walnut — selected board by board at the MacPherson workshop, where our four master craftsmen run an 8,000 sqft floor that produces custom joinery in ten to fourteen days. Lime-wash plaster is hand-trowelled in three to five coats, never spray-applied; the surface keeps the mark of the hand. Stone is ordered as full slabs — honed travertine, veined Calacatta, occasionally a quiet green serpentine — and book-matched on site.
Textiles are specified from a short list of mills in Belgium, Japan and northern India: hand-loomed wool, heavyweight linen, the occasional raw silk. Metalwork is patinated brass or blackened steel, fabricated locally in Geylang. Nothing is imported finished when it can be made ten kilometres from the studio.
— Materials & Specification Library, Armenian Street, est. 2017.
Three landed commissions across Good Class Bungalow and terrace typologies — slower projects, longer arcs, budgets from S$780K to S$1.6M.
A small selection of boutique commercial and hospitality commissions — fewer than a quarter of the studio's annual intake, accepted only when the brief and the client fit.
Documented & recognised
“Singgahsana's principal-led model is the rarest thing in Singapore residential design: a boutique studio that genuinely does the joinery in-house.”
“A measured, quietly confident practice — the kind of atelier that returns the brief before it returns the bill.”
“Featured across the second season of CNA's Home Makeover series for a Bukit Timah condominium handover filmed on site.”
“Best Boutique Interior Design Firm, Singapore.”
The studio opens every engagement with a paid ninety-minute consultation in the Armenian Street studio — S$280, led by one of four principal designers. It is the only way we take on new work.
Book a Studio ConsultationOr write to [email protected] · +65 6235 0188 · 36 Armenian Street, #03-02.