DOTY 2026 Tri-star Achievement Award: Stuarts Design Sdn Bhd

Stuarts Design specialises in luxury interior design, focusing on creating spaces that enrich daily experiences and encourage expressions of identity and values. Its founder and design director, Katherine Stuart, is a three-time winner of the Women Empowering Designer Award (WEDA) at the Designer of the Year Awards (DOTY), specifically the 2022, 2023 and 2025 editions.

Project: Bandar Kinrara (DOTY 2022 Merit Residential Design – Landed)

Stuarts Design seizes the opportunity to merge urban, futuristic elements with the area’s natural assets in this semi-detached home in Bandar Kinrara, exemplifying sustainable urban living through design. Italian marbles are also prominent features of the home, strategically placed to balance luxury with gentleness.

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Project: Naza Tower, Kuala Lumpur (DOTY 2022 Merit Commercial Design)

Luxury is not just limited to residences. At this office in Kuala Lumpur, Stuarts Design fuses luxurious and industrial design schemes for a workspace that encourages productivity and inspiration for all who walk in.

Project: Maple Residence (DOTY 2023 Best Residential Design – Landed)

This home in Cyberjaya is the embodiment of Luxe Noir. To achieve this, Stuarts Design incorporates luxurious materials including marble, ebony, wood, and polished steel into its design, unfolding a rich, enchanting and timeless spatial tapestry that embraces darkness and light.

Project: Unconventional Opulence (DOTY 2023 Best Residential Design – High-Rise)

Indeed, opulence in this home in Puchong does not conform to what one would associate the term with – extravagance, lavish, over-the-top. Rather, Stuarts Design employs design strategies involving optimising space and functionality, together with integrating modern finishes and high-quality materials to create a sophisticated and comfortable living space.

Project: Whispering Tranquillity (DOTY 2025 Best Residential Design – High Rise (Gold))

Stuarts Design’s specialty in luxury design is also prevalent in this residence in Wangsa Maju. Here, the design firm integrates contemporary aesthetics to transform the space into a warm, inviting and deeply personal one. A notable feature of this home is the broken marble flooring that has been polished and restored, adding character to the space through its history and fostering sustainable design practices.

Project: Echo of Glam (DOTY 2025 Best Commercial Design – Workplace (Bronze))

With the theme “A Symphony of Luxury” in mind, Stuarts Design has transformed a warehouse in Kota Damansara into a workspace by merging opulence with functionality. Taking a meticulous approach in curating design elements, spatial planning and materials, as well as employing cutting-edge design techniques, the design firm ensures that the grandiosity of the environment is able to foster creativity and productivity.

Project: Hue of Bronze (DOTY 2025 Best Commercial Design – Workplace (Silver))

In this corporate space in Kota Damansara, bronze stands as the dominant hue across aesthetics and practicality. Yet Stuarts Design masterfully applies the design element with restraint, ensuring that the multidimensional nature of the workplace prioritises the productivity and well-being of its users.

About the Designer of the Year Awards and the Tri-star Achievement Award

The Designer of the Year Awards (DOTY) aspires to discover and honour the exceptional works of talented local and international designers. It sets the benchmark of excellence in design and is committed to championing them in architecture and interior.

The theme of DOTY 2026, “Celebrating Design Intelligence”, highlights how design has evolved beyond mere aesthetics to encompass functionality and sustainability, where user experience, environmentally-friendly materials and technology integration are essential to well-being and efficiency.

Introduced in 2019, the Tri-star Achievement Award celebrates the achievements of design firms who have been awarded DOTY for three consecutive years. Recipients of this accolade this year have previously won DOTY in the 2022, 2023 and 2025 editions.

Visit doty.com.my for more information.