The Luxury is in the Details

With plenty of subtle, high-end touches, DM Interior Design has created a penthouse apartment that is anything but ordinary.

- LOW SHI PING

Historically, The Interlace has been a divisive condominium project by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).

With cuboids stacked on top of each other, it is either regarded as an architectural must-visit in Singapore or a dry dock with shipping containers lined with windows piled higgledy-piggledy.

The owner of one of its penthouses is obviously part of the former group.

Occupying two storeys in a 12-level block, his apartment (3,800 sq ft) has, on one side, a full perspective of the development in all its layered glory. In stark contrast, the opposite side looks straight out to the verdant canopy of Labrador Nature Reserve in the distance. With the artistic touch of DM Interior Design Managing Director Wang Linfeng, the apartment is now a space that smoothly transitions between the two contrasting vistas.

A NEW BEGINNING

The owner is an entrepreneur with a family of four, including an infant daughter and a primary school-aged son. Along with a luxurious home that could accommodate everyone comfortably, he also requested a darker colour scheme.

To achieve these aims, Wang gutted the apartment and stripped it of most of its previous fittings. Only the parquet flooring and the walls of the three bedrooms were retained. “We preferred to start afresh,” says Wang.

Underfoot, he used large-format Italian marble tiles, curtains, and wall coverings as a foundation, and complemented them with lavish, beautifully detailed accents, lending the space an upscale feel.

Visitors are wowed by a 2.8-m feature wall that runs the length of the dining area just beyond the foyer after walking through the rather unobtrusive front door. Its whorls of grey and white are flecked with gold and resemble a contemporary Chinese ink painting. It is actually made up of three slabs of Italian marble that have been book matched.