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Architecture d'Auteur · by Sara Bali · Sumba, Indonesia

Every land is a page. Every client, a story. Every project, a sentence.

Architecture d'Auteur is the practice of Sara Sieradzan, designer trained at the prestigious École Boulle, and architect in Bali, Indonesia, where she designs luxury villas, hotels and interiors. Every project opens with the same gesture, a notebook, a pencil, an idea, and grows into a concept that exists nowhere else.

15+Years of experiencefrom Paris to Bali
18+Projects underway4 private villas · 10 exclusive luxury villas · a 15-key hotel · an apartment & loft building · a 1,200 m² headquarters · a commercial space · across Bali & Sumba
4Working languagesEnglish · Français · Bahasa Indonesia · Polski

Every project begins with a sentence

Selected work

THE CANOPY

Ubud, Bali · 5-bedroom villa · 388 m² · Under construction

SAS HEADQUARTERS

Umalas, Canggu · 1,200 m² offices · Under construction

THE TOWER

Hong Kong · High-rise concept · 2006
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Luxury is not ornament.
It is honesty, drawn precisely.

Indonesia lets us practise architecture as it should be practised: guided by values and imagination. Each terrain, each client calls for a unique, atypical concept, imagined, then created, each time different. From Bali, the studio designs across Indonesia and Asia.

Matter is the heart of the work. We work the Indonesian earth: recycled ironwood, volcanic stone, travertine, brass, linen. Every material is chosen by hand, sample by sample, for a single project. We build alongside teams whose trust never says no to new forms or reinvented matter. Out of the box is our method, not our slogan.

From masterplan to the last piece of furniture, everything is designed, sourced and supervised by the practice, a millimetre-precise accompaniment, rare here, and precious.

Architecture

Site-specific, one-of-a-kind architecture, concept, creative direction, masterplanning and permitting, engineered for Indonesian climate and regulation.

Interiors & FF&E

Interior architecture, custom furniture and lighting, textiles and material research, crafted with Indonesian artisans, down to the smallest detail.

Project direction

On-the-ground direction of contractors, artisans and consultants, from first stake to final styling, in three languages.

Sara Sieradzan, architect and designer, at her drawing table

The author.

Sara Sieradzan has been drawing since before she could write. Trained at École Boulle, the Sorbonne and ENSAD Paris, she spent a decade designing across Europe, libraries, villas, alpine chalets, hotels, before a journey brought her to Indonesia. She returned with a one-way ticket.

In Bali she found what she had been circling all along: a territory of creative freedom, where bespoke is the rule and repetition impossible. Nature, topography, light, local materials and real ways of living form the foundation of every project, drawn by hand first, and followed to the smallest detail.

"Here, we don't invent. We create. Every constraint must become an asset."

Your land holds a story.
Let's write it.

studio@bysaradesign.com
WhatsApp · +62 812 2520 7329
Bali, Indonesia
English · Français · Bahasa Indonesia · Polski

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