Outstanding Chinese Designer Karen Chang Won the iF Design Award

March 27 01:00 2019

Recently, iF Design Award revealed its winners of 2019. This time, the Founder & Chief Design Officer of CAC, Karen Chang won the award for her great work – Savoir Resort. Savoir Resort reflects a perfect combination of traditional Chinese elements with modern lifestyle in its design concept.

Founder & Chief Design Officer – Karen Chang

The iF Design Award is known for its “independent, rigorous and reliable” standards in award selection during the past 66 years. As one of the most important awards of the world for designers, the iF Design Award receives attention and enthusiasm of global top designers. It is an annual feast for designers where enormously fabulous work will be displayed and compared, also an occasion to make friends via design. This year, it received 6,375 works from 52 countries of the world for competition.

Following cooperation with global famous designer Jaya Ibrahim on the work of The PuLi Hotel in Shanghai, Karen Chang produced the Savoir Resort. The hotel design work won her an iF Design Award.

The hotel is located within national 5A tourist attraction Xixi Wetland Park, transformed through traditional residential houses in the South Area of Yangtze River. This is a place where the indigenous live in seclusion for generations, away from busy lifestyle. Through an elegant and rustic way of fishing and tea farming, they enjoy a “seclusive” lifestyle with satisfaction from simplicity.

Karen Chang is the chief interior designer for the hotel renovation of Savoir Resort, working on a design concept that preserves the original appearances of traditional houses, draws from the “seclusive philosophy” followed by the indigenous, and creates a space more suited to modern generations. Provide a dreaming style of vocation for people living in bustling cities.

The hotel features 20 separate villas, and each one naturally harbored by an independent watery space. Through the glass windows and doors, the dwellers feel like wrapping in the nature, with ripples, sunshine, clouds, rain, trees and lakes presenting a panoramic view.

It is not easy to plant traditional architecture into modern lifestyle. Designers choose to use breathable terrazzo because the mild material is able to resist cracks and contractions even in a moisture environment with a high level of humidity. The floor paved with terrazzo is connected with bronze wires; and the bathtub made of terrazzo fits perfectly with the entire space of the architecture, endowing the space with a vintage connotation, making it elegant and gentle.

iF Design Award:

Originated in 1953, the iF DESIGN AWARD has been recognized as an arbiter of quality for exceptional design. The iF label is renowned worldwide for outstanding design services, and the iF DESIGN AWARD is one of the most important design prizes in the world. Submissions are awarded in the following disciplines: Product, Packaging, Communication and Service Design/UX, Architecture and Interior Architecture as well as Professional Concept. All awarded entries are featured on the iF WORLD DESIGN GUIDE, in the iF design app and are displayed at the iF design exhibition Hamburg.

Designer profile:

Founder & Chief Design Officer – Karen Chang

Karen Chang is dedicated to the research and practice of space design, with a focus on the establishment of East-West integration in space experience system, and an effort to create an “organic space” featuring sustained dynamics.

Through professional experience from cooperation with various international teams, she is able to balance a fine relationship between human and space, utilize spatial proportions, introduce innovative materials, make breakthroughs in lifestyle restrictions, follow space trend for contemporary business, and vision the demand and potential of sustainable space.

Karen Chang has delivered various high-profile cases like The PuLi Hotel in Shanghai and Savoir Resort, etc. She has won Canada-based GRANDS PRIX DU, Germany-based German Design Award, the Asia and Pacific Interior Design Award, and the Best 50 Designers of the Year, the Outstanding Interior Designer and other international design awards.

About CAC Design Group

CAC Design Group was founded in 1999 in Taiwan, and set its Asian headquarters in Shanghai in 2006. With branches in Singapore, Taichung, Hsinchu, etc. With business expansion, it keeps combining local culture with internationalization trend.

CAC is an international design company of comprehensive business including interior design, decorative art, architectural aesthetics, industrial design and other business, as well as an agent for many global leading furniture brands. With a team of over a hundred pioneer designers, CAC is dedicated to “breaking the limits of style, exploring the boundaries of culture, and looking for a spiritual balance between human and space”.

During the past two decades, CAC has set foot on multiple areas including projects for real estate developers (model room, sales office), hotels, commercial space, office space, villas and mansions, furniture production and others, accumulating rich experience from cooperation with all sorts of brands, providing customers with perfect business development solutions and lifestyle service solutions, receiving wide recognition from the industry.

Stick to a mobilizing vision of globalization and a continuous exploration for space, currently, CAC has worked with a great deal of domestic and international real estate companies and hotel groups, completing works of architectural and interior space design for various selected space for residence, hotel, office, creative and cultural industries across the world. The successful cases include: The PuLi Hotel, a classic luxury hotel in Shanghai; Savoir Resort, one of the most popular buildings in China; Vanke Gong Wang, which opens a new Chinese style in buildings; Sunac Marquis Mansion, which is an iconic building featured with a sense of nostalgia for heart…

In recent years, CAC has won numerous famous domestic and international design awards, including GERMAN DESIGN AWARD which has been existed for over 60 years, APDC , Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards (APIDA) on professional level competition, the prestigious North American award ‘GRANDSPRIX DU DESIGN’, Golden Bund Award, Real Estate Design China Award, IDEA-TOPS, as well as the title of “Sino-Brand Boya Top”, gaining extensive attention and coverage by mainstream media in architecture and design.

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