Marina Bay, Singapore
The Meridian Penthouse sits at the apex of one of Marina Bay's most coveted towers — 620 square metres of raw possibility high above Singapore's skyline. The client, a private family with deep ties to Italian art and architecture, came to SATU Atelier with a clear conviction: they wanted a home that felt warm, unhurried, and entirely unlike the polished anonymity so common in Singapore's luxury residential market.
SATU Atelier was engaged from the very first architectural decision. Our brief covered every surface, every fitting, every object in the apartment — a true end-to-end commission. The palette was built around a foundation of Calacatta Oro marble from Italy, hand-selected in the quarry at Carrara, paired with stained European oak joinery crafted in our Jepara workshops. Against this backdrop of natural stone and timber, the lighting scheme was designed to behave like the Singapore light itself — soft, equatorial, golden as the day fades.
The centrepiece of the terrace — a hand-carved Jepara daybed in reclaimed teak, wide enough for an entire family — took twelve weeks to produce and arrived on-site wrapped in woven pandanus. It is the piece the client speaks of most. Every material tells a story. Every piece knows where it belongs. That is what a SATU interior means.
The primary living room was conceived as a single continuous gesture — no fussy transitions, no competing focal points. A 6.2-metre sofa in hand-stitched ivory boucle anchors the space, its proportions drawn from the room's floor-to-ceiling glazing, which frames Marina Bay like a living painting. Every upholstered piece was produced in our Jepara studio to exacting specifications: removable covers in two colourways, hand-turned legs in bleached mango wood, and internal spring systems sourced from a single German supplier we have worked with for a decade.
The flooring — Calacatta Oro slabs laid in a bookmatched chevron across the entire level — required four months of sourcing to secure enough matched slab pairs from a single quarry block. The result is a floor that reads as one continuous material event, undivided by seams or breaks. Overhead, a bespoke linear lighting track system by our German lighting partner casts an even wash of 2700K light that shifts temperature through the day, from cool morning white to warm amber as the sun crosses the bay.
The master suite was built around a single material truth: the bedroom should feel like a different country. Where the living spaces are open and social, the suite withdraws into warmth and texture — walls wrapped in a hand-loomed grass cloth from our Guangzhou supplier, a bed frame in solid American walnut with a floating upholstered headboard that extends the full width of the room. The stone here shifts from Calacatta to a honed Pietra Serena from a quarry in Tuscany, its grey warmth contrasting softly with the brass hardware we specified throughout.
The wardrobes — conceived as a full room-within-a-room dressing suite — are entirely bespoke, produced in our Jepara joinery workshop with hand-cut veneer in alternating grain directions, bronze-framed mirror panels, and a single integrated vanity light that runs the full 4.8 metres of the dressing run. Every handle, every hinge, every interior fitting was specified by our team. There is no off-the-shelf element anywhere in this suite.
SATU Atelier created a world that feels completely ours. Every surface, every object — a single language.
Private Client — Singapore