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| 51N4E BRUGES |
photos Lindman Åke E:son |
In the old centre of Bruges architects 51N4E converted an old shop into a contemporary weekend-home. The facade as well as the assets of the old house were kept intact. In the back where there use to be
a temporary shed, the architects designed a
wooden room. In the kitchen
the old stairs reflect in the shiny super-furniture they newly
designed. The strength of the architecture is found through the
confrontation between the historical/anecdotal and the
contemporary/universal.
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| A CONTEMPORARY BUNGALOW |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
When renovating this house, the architect decided not to demolish the original house, constructed in the seventies. He reconstructed it to a home of today.. "I couldn't built a better new building, therefore I focussed on eliminating what wasn't good and adding what we needed. The result is an open plan, flat roof, contemporary home, with a plain interior, based on funky colours.
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| A FAMILY IN MANHATTAN |
photos Verne |
The apartment is situated in the shadows of the Empire Sate Building in Manhattan and is the home of mom, dad and their two children. You can say it is a combination of rational architecture, 50-ies classical American furniture and extraordinary views over the city.
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| AL EIBER |
photos Verne |
It had become a hobby to scan through the ‘house for sale’ section in the paper on Sunday morning. Not that Al and his wife were looking for a house. They simply liked to view houses.
‘We had a nice apartment, nothing special, but we loved it a great deal, until that particular Sunday afternoon when, as we had done so many times, we drove past one of the houses for sale. It was love at first sight, for both of us. What is more, I was willing to bet my life that it was a design by Morris Lapidus, one of the most important American architects from the fifties, at least in my opinion. When we entered the house, nothing could stop us anymore. We simply had to live here.’
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| ALEX KATZ NY |
photos Verne |
A huge loft in the very heart of the New York neighbourhood SoHo has been the residence and working place of Alex Katz and his wife Ada for more than twenty-five years. The building was the second one that the city of New York made available for artists.
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| AMERICAN OUTFITTERS |
photos Verne |
This 70-ies villa, built in ‘New Brutalism’ style has been refurbished and updated by the interior architects Renaud De Poorter and Femke Holdrinet. The result is a contemporary family home with an open character and a strong sensual touch
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| AN OOST |
photos De Baerdemaeker Kat |
When top model An Oost is out working for international fashion brands such as Gucci, Prada and Boss, her boyfriend runs their original Bed & Breakfast in their mansion in Ghent. Fashion and design are combined up till the smallest detail.
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| ANTOINE |
photos Hendrikx Diane |
As a furniture maker, Antoine was looking for a house with a suitable workshop. After six years searching he found a perfect match: a family house, a garden and a coach house that could work as a studio. All hidden behind a big gate.
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| ANYPLACE |
photos Kempenaers Jan |
An old diamond cutting and-polishing shop in Antwerp has been renovated and reorganised. The 2500 square meters area has been divided in 19 housing units. Partly in the old lofts, partly in new built spaces.
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| APARTMENT BXL |
photos Ocvirk Kus Danica |
This is a renovated apartment in a building from the beginning of the last century and is an example of an imaginative approach of furnishing. The interior is a blend of traditional and modern with a creative personal touch.
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| APARTMENT DERUYTER |
photos Verne |
Uprooted in time and space. That’s the first impression you get when you enter this apartment, even without knowing anything about its occupant. Each room – the studio, the library, including the bedroom -, contains at least one object d’art that refers to concepts like ‘being underway’ or ‘things of the past’.
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| APARTMENT DUINBERGEN |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
This apartment is divided in two, a private part with the bed and bathrooms and a more public part, with the living room and kitchen. These two zones are separated by a plate-glass door, in which you can see your reflection and the place you are leaving. The white marble represents the changing colour of the sea. It almost goes through the entire apartment, in the guestroom it evolves in a carpet, designed by the architects.
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| APARTMENT FH |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
This apartment is situated in the old city of Ghent, in an old mansion. When the owner wanted to rent the apartment, the proprietor was busy renovating. The owner was fortunate enough to decide with him what the space would look like. For instance, he detest doors, so there are none in the apartment. Very little has been done about architecture here, the decoration is based on the positioning of some very fine furniture.
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| APARTMENT KNOKKE |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
A duplex apartment at the Belgian coast. Living area, dining area and kitchen are located on the top floor. The bedrooms are located on the floor below. Every room offers a great view over the nature reserve, which is located right next to the apartment building. Strong lines, durable materials and colour accents make this apartment a fascinating place.
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| ARABIC HOUSE |
photos Verne |
This Casa Arabia was built in Barcelona, at the end of the 19th
century by a Catalan architect, for an Arab prince. In a true
eclectic style, the architect mingled Arab elements with neo-classic
elements. Today the owners are the Swedish Klea and her husband
Roberto, who run various café's and disco's in the city. A few years
ago, they bought the house from a cousin of the Swedish illustrator
Carl Larson. In the library Klea found books signed by Larson and
demanded that the house would be sold including the books. In this
way, Casa Arabia is a true mixture of the Arab, Catalan and Scandinavian
culture.
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| ARDLP |
photos De Baerdemaeker Kat |
Naive and childish for some people, spontaneous and brilliant for others, those are the designs of this Spanish designer. She is worshipped in her home country. Not only her clothing line, also her home accessories are the talk of the town. Have a look in her appartement in Paris.
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| ART-DECO OFFICE |
photos Verne |
This old art-deco office building in Antwerp has been rebuilt and refurbished. The result is a luxurious place, with the comfort of today and the atmosphere of the thirties.
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| BENJAMIN |
photos Hendrikx Diane |
In this small house lives an artist. For his artwork he combines several existing objects like toys and pictures. His house is filled with his work, which makes it an artwork itself.
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| BLACK BOX |
photos Verne |
The architect designed this home as a black box inspired by Le Corbusier’s Domino House. A large corridor divides the building in two. One side for working, the other side, situated near the garden, for living.
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| CARAVAN |
photos Verne |
This open space in a former factory building is, contrary to the current trend not converted into a minimalist loft. Quite the contrary. Like a bohemian, the owner lives between old furniture, a refrigerator and a caravan.
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| CASA DAS CANOAS |
photos Verne |
In 1953, Oscar Niemeyer built this house for him and his family, just outside Rio. Today the architect lives on the top floor of the oldest apartment on Copacabana and the public can visit his previous home. When we arrive, Casa das Canoas appears to be asleep, only the jungle plants grow rankly. The house is bolstered in green, but the architecture stayed untouched. The curves, signatures of Niemeyer’s work are like a delicate poem in this green setting and the huge glass windows lift the border between interior and exterior.
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| CHATEAU BOUCEEL |
photos Verne |
Although situated close to the seaside and the Mont Saint Michel in particular, Château Boucéel prefers to hide away between the green rolling hills that have surrounded it since its construction in 1763. For centuries this has been the home of the family de Roquefeuil. Today it is run by one of the great-great-grandchildren of la Marquise who fought so hard to rescue her home from burning during the Civil War that she never managed to say goodbye. Until this day, the Marquise is said to haunt the castle. A decade ago the Comte and Comtesse de Roquefeuil decided it was time to share their home with fellow antique lovers and today one can sleep in the ancient room of great-aunt Charlotte and even read her well-preserved diary
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| CHATEAU DE VERRIERES |
photos Verne |
Between Angers and Tours, along the Loire and close to the historical centre of Saumur we find the enchanting city castle Château de Verrières. For years the estate looked rather abominable – the Protestant family who owned it for almost a century did not like renovating – but the current owners only had eyes for the original wallpaper and the golden ceilings. Almost the entire city castle, a creation by a Visconti student, still looks exactly the way it did when the Napoleon general had it built as a place for his retirement. Today, Yolaine de Valbray-Auger welcomes her guests without formality but with a natural and sincere hospitality.
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| CHATEAU LA BALLUE |
photos Verne |
This is the place where Victor Hugo wrote the first lines of his novel “Quatre-Vingt-Treize”, Balzac found inspiration for his “Les Chouans” and in his ‘Mémoires d’outre tombe’ Chateaubriand talks about “une domaine où l’art des jardins réponds à l’art des artistes et fait écho à un véritable art de vivre ».Owners and art collectors Alain Schrotter and Marie-France Barrére added some contemporary art pieces to this 17th century beauty and managed to upgrade the already glorious gardens to the famous Monument Historique status. In addition to the classical French garden they also created a maze garden with baroque sculptures, a wild flower garden and numerous garden chambers that all received a bit of their shared love for modern art.
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| CHEZ NOUS |
photos Verne |
Behind a very small building façade lies an open loft-like space. Bea rebuilt an ancient fisherman’s house into a modern home. The most important part for her in the house is the kitchen block, where she cooks whilst entertaining her friends.
Over the past ten years, she has been running a design shop. Her new house is a mix of wonders she has found and sold over the years, ranging from an old Brionvega television to newly made Moroccan rugs.
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| CLAUDIO SILVESTRIN |
photos Blee Sarah |
Silvestrin is a sculptor of space. His architecture is austere, sublime and minimal. In his own penthouse, which he shares with his wife & two children, it is no different. The most important feature in this calm and poetic interior is the way the natural light floods in and influences the mood of the space.
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| COACH HOUSE |
photos Verne |
A Belgian architects couple and their two children moved into the coach house of a castle.
In comparison with their neighbour, the chatelaine, their home is quit modest. But they succeeded in building their own palace.
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| CORBU CAMBODIA |
photos Gabriel Jean-Pierre |
In the Gulf of Siam Boris Vervoordt and Jef Moons saved two modernistic villa’s built by pupils of Le Corbusier from being ruined by the sun, wind and see. They restored the blue houses with a lot of respect for the modernistic history. Boris, son of the renown antique connoisseur Axel Vervoordt refurbished the lodges in a fusion of traditional Cambodian style and contemporary features. The lodges are rented out as holiday resort.
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| CORN HOUSE |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
The exterior of the house of artists Dirk and Els is covered in red roof tiles. “I love to work with everyday materials and give them a new function”, says Dirk. That is also how he came up with the idea to plant corn in his front yard.
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| DE UIL DEVRIENDT |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
The Belgian designer Jos Devriendt shows a selection of his work in house De Uil. This art-deco house was originally built by sculptor Karel Aubrouck and is now renovated by Vigilando Interiors. The owners work, live and also have their gallery in the house.
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| DE UIL DK |
photos Ocvirk Kus Danica |
The “The Uil” (The Owl) house was built in 1928 by the Belgian sculptor
Karel Aubroeck. It was part home, part atelier and part museum. Today’s owners have been renovating the house in
its original spirit. They live in the house, run their interior
design company and stage exhibitions. The garden was designed by Daniel Ost.
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| DE UIL JPG |
photos Gabriel Jean-Pierre |
The sculpture Karel Aubroeck is an unknown in his own country, Belgium. Nevertheless he is responsible for two of the most famous architectural statues of Flanders: the Yser tower and a monument dedicated to King Albert I. In 1928 he constructs his own classical house on the borders of the Scheldt, which has today been reconstructed and refurbished by the interior architects of Vigilando.
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| DIAGONAL HOUSE |
photos Verne |
In the design of the architect, innovation is the central theme. Exploring new materials leads to innovative forms, like this apartment on the seafront. Hardly any wall is perpendicular. The diagonal perspectives create a constant feeling of motion and gesture.
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| DUPLEX BRUSSEL |
photos Hendrikx Diane |
A duplex apartment on just 90m2. From every room there is a vista towards another room, which adds to the open-space -feeling. To experience the rooms as airy as possible, the architect decided to only work with a few colours: black, white, red and a touch of green.
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| ELIZ |
photos Verne |
Sixteen years ago, Eliz and her family visited the Cevenne during holidays. This rough and barren country stole their hearts and six years later they sold their companies and belongings in London and bought a huge farmhouse on the top of a mountain. Eliz decorated every room in another style and during summertime, the farm is converted in a wonderful vacation house with more than 10 different rooms.
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| ELVIS POMPILIO |
photos Verne |
Hat designer Elvis Pompilio lives in a former warehouse in the heart of Brussels. Just like his hat collection, his house is an eclectic ensemble of styles. One room is decorated in a true 18th century chateau-style, another in complete Western/Wild West (?) style. The dining room has a more sober, 50-ies modern Scandinavian look, whilst the adjacent room is filled with an incredible mixture of things. A huge teddy bear and Barbie dolls, next to Gucci, Chanel and Hermes boxes. Records of Vicky Leandros, Claude François and Elvis Presley… Walking through this house is like walking through history in a non-logical way.
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| ERIKA |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
The colours of the beach, the sea and grey skies seem to have been the inspiration for the furnishing of this apartment. In spite of the restricted surface, it has a high architecture level. The sober furnishing and visual unity provide rest and comfort, exactly what the owner wanted.
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| FARMHOUSE |
photos Verne |
Peter was only 18 years old when he bought the old farmhouse. The first thing he did was digging an outside pool. After that, little by little he renovated the house and the stables. Today it is a mixture of romantic pastures, beautiful horses and a cosy home where modern furniture is placed in a historic setting
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| FLEXIBLE LOFT |
photos Verne |
The owners of this loft are both Argentinean, but their home base is NY. An artist studio, an office and a living space were created in the open space of the loft. Playfulness is the keyword. Walls can move around, bathroom and bedroom are like aquariums in the open space, and colourful details contrast with the white cube.
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| FLOIRAC |
photos Muller Fien |
Located on a hill overlooking the Bordeaux region, this private residence is conceived as three houses stacked. The lowest level, which accommodates intimate family life, is a series of caverns carved out from the hill; a garden level, completely sheathed in glass, provides additional living and working spaces, while the highest level is reserved for a master suite and children’s bedrooms. The heart of the Maison à Bordeaux is an open mechanical lift which moves freely between the three levels. The interior is designed by Maarten Van Severen.
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| FOUR ROOM HOUSE |
photos Verne |
This small house is only 2, 40 meter wide and 5, 50 meters deep. The owners,an architect-couple, designed the house for themselves. Every floor has its function: the ground floor is the work-area, the first floor is for eating, the second floor for relaxing, the top floor for sleeping and on the roof you can enjoy the view from the bathtub.
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| FRAMEWORK |
photos Hendrikx Diane |
The open space of the loft has been divided by a metal and glass framework, which adds to the open feeling, but also creates visual boundaries. Fun colours, fifties and sixties furniture, and a lot of kid’s toys add up to the cosy family feeling.
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| FREDERIKSBERG |
photos Verne |
This apartment in Copenhagen was built in 1920 by a Jewish architect and is now owned by a young couple with three children. It is a mixture of Danish design and contemporary light fittings. The owners believe that less is more and only want to be surrounded by essential things. They love Danish artwork and live between their favourite pieces.
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| FRENCH BASQUE GUESTHOUSE |
photos Gabriel Jean-Pierre |
This 18th century timber framed construction, in the mountains of the French Basque country has been restored and turned into a high-end guesthouse with 5 rooms. Guests are spoiled with succulent diners in a contemporary ambiance. Modernity and tradition go hand in hand; in the architecture, the interior and the cuisine.
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| GAETANO PESCE |
photos Verne |
Gaetano Pesce renovated the weekend apartment of the Mourmans family, in Knokke, Belgium. Parents, children and grandchildren live in a Flintstones’ setting. You cannot get any madder and wilder. Coats, cups, saucers and weird little men emerge from the colour clash.
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| GALLERY SL |
photos Ocvirk Kus Danica |
This gallery and B&B is situated in the small town of Tielrode, between Ghent and Antwerp. The owners created an exclusive interior, presenting their own designs and internationally known artists. The artwork of the represented artists has a museum quality, exploring the borders between art and design, objects, ceramics, silverware and jewelry. The poetic interior brings out the works of art in all its excellence.
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| GASTON EYSSELINCK |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
Architect Gaston Eysselinck was seventeen when he first read Le Corbusier. When he was eighteen he visited the 'Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Moderne' in Paris. He was very much impressed by the ‘Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau’ by Corbu and the Russian pavilion by Melnikov. On travels to Holland, he became acquainted with the work of Rietveld. At the age of 24 he built his own 'machine à habiter' in Gent. Today another architect, Gilbert Decouvreur restored the house and furnished it with Scandinavian Modernistic pieces.
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| GREET AND ARMAND |
photos Verne |
It feels like being outside the world, on an island where time does not exist. Where desires, sorrows and trivialities do not belong. In this medieval farmhouse in the Perigord Nord, Armand and Greet created a home where time seems to have evaporated. They renovated the old farm building in its authentic way and built two new, wooden pavilions in the garden. The emptiness and sobriety of the place lead to an almost sacral experience
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| GUESTHOUSE BA |
photos Verne |
On a charming hill top in the Ardèche lays a centuries old castle. The owners decorated the historical building with an exceptional design feeling. A castle tailored for contemporary knights and princesses.
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| GUESTHOUSE BDLS |
photos Verne |
A Dutch couple sold their property, goods and Michelin restaurant to start a new life, in the foot tracks of best-seller author Peter Mayle, on a picturesque hill top in the Luberon. Untouched villages such as Bonnieux, Gordes and Ménerbes, exclaimed as France most beautiful villages, surround them.
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| GUESTHOUSE DURBUY |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
“It feels even better than being at home.” Is the subtitle for this ‘Gîte’ in the centre of the lovely city of Durbuy. Only the outside walls of this house, dating from the early 20th century, were preserved. The minimalistic interior and exterior, designed by Ian Meulemeester, stand in fierce contrast to its ‘neighbour’, the castle.
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| GUESTHOUSE JDL |
photos Verne |
This enchanting guesthouse is located in the hollow of the Alpilles and stands on a hundred years old olive tree hillside. Visitors can stay in the white, blue, pink or yellow room, each with its own character and personality.
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| GUESTHOUSE LB |
photos Verne |
In an old mail house in the heart of the Luberon, where travellers recover their breath, the French photographer François Lochon found the rest that he had searched for so long. Guests can enjoy this special place in five large suites.
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| GUESTHOUSE MDS |
photos Verne |
A Parisian couple, each with a hectic fashion career, shows how it must be done and created a glorious solitary place on an arc twinge of Avignon.
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| GUESTHOUSE SH |
photos Verne |
This luxury guesthouse is located at the foot of the Cévennes. It has three rooms and three suites and an astonishing swimming pool and garden where you can sit down and dream away.
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| HAMPSTEAD |
photos Blee Sarah |
This 19th century semi- detached property in Hampstead, London has been redesigned with a sympathetic yet modern look. Formerly the house was divided into a number of flats, but the new owners desired one big family home. Working closely with a textile designer he realized a home of which every detail adds up to a harmonious contemporary living environment. The Landscaping brings the levels of the house together in a series of decked terraces & structured borders.
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| HEXENHAUS |
photos Brown June & John |
When Axel Bruchhäuser from TECTA met the British architects Alison and Peter Smithson in 1980, the idea grew to build a contemporary museum for his chair collection. Over the years the Smithsons redesigned his home and his factory according to the concept of ‘Conglomerate Ordering’. For the ‘Hexenhaus’ they created new pavilions, added porches, created doorways to the existing house and built bridges between the different rooms and pavilions.
We recently had the opportunity to visit and photograph the completely finished en decorated 'Hexenhaus'.
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| HILLSIDE HOUSE |
photos Verne |
The architect of this house is a real modernist, during the eighties he designed minimalist interiors and houses. Lately he has been highly inspired by art deco. On the hillside outside of Brussels he designed a huge villa in complete art deco style, with the work of Mallet Stevens as a reference.
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| HOME IS WHERE WE WORK AND LIVE |
photos Dujardin Filip |
This old warehouse is transformed into a modern terraced home. The house is constructed on five different levels. Although you should not take that too literary with the architect, as he likes to toy with heights of various living functions. The work-zone is, unlike in the most houses, integrated in the living-area of the house.
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| HOUSE ALONG THE SCHELDT |
photos Blee Sarah |
This private home is a mixture of warm and cold, raw and cosy. The formal warehouse retains the industrial character, but is also a joyful family nest with a lot of art, books, fun furniture and an exquisite look upon the city of Antwerp and its river.
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| HOUSE ARJB |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
This house was designed in 1969 by architect Herman Andriessen. A year after completion he past away. Now, the house has been restored by architect Arjaan De Feyter as an honour to the original architect.
The whole building was stripped down, except for the steel structure, and then built up again.
It reminds us of Villa Savoye and a ‘case study house’.
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| HOUSE ATAMI |
photos Giostra Roberto |
On the east coast of the picturesque Izu peninsula, about 100 kilometres south of Tokyo, Mr. Keijchirou Nakayama chose to build his residence. Architect Akira Watanabe designed a home in which it would be comfortable to live all year long. The house also needed to be able to endure the strongest west winds in winter, resist a typhoon in summer and needed to have a basement secure enough to withstand an earthquake.
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| HOUSE BORGHS - VAN AMMEL |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
This family house is designed by young Belgian architects. The owner of the property asked them to built a home where they could have some privacy. They designed a house which is almost completely closed at the street side and entirely executed in glass at the back side.
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| HOUSE CD |
photos Blee Sarah |
Thanks to the pure atmosphere of this town house, conceived as a vertical loft, owners David and Corina can find the peace and quiet that inspires them in their artistic professions. The constructive lines, the pure simplicity, the geometrical proportions and the intangible shades of light give this interior its intimacy and warm frugality.
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| HOUSE CQJB |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
The front of this house is totally executed in gray brick. You can only have a peek inside through the over dimensioned hallway, which can easily be transformed into a garage. The closed front forms a contrast to the open back of the house.
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| HOUSE DE BRABANDERE |
photos Verne |
In an old edifice in the heart of Ghent, an artist and sculptor lives in his own universe. Half working place, half surreal scenery: the house as source of inspiration.
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| HOUSE DVH |
photos Kempenaers Jan |
In 1996, four Belgian architects bought a nineteenth century industrial site in Ghent, with a total surface of 510 square meters. They partitioned the complex in three units, with a
communal garden.
They kept the existing structure. Only parts of the roof constructions and
partitioning walls were replaced by new industrial materials. The original industrial atmosphere is still there, but thanks
to the new materials, interesting natural light effects have been added to this historical complex and transformed
it into contemporary urban architecture.
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| HOUSE ERPE MERE |
photos Blee Sarah |
The owners of this house always dreamt of a large luxurious home, built in lovely natural materials. Nevertheless this project had to be discrete in its surroundings. The architect designed a modernistic house with rooms that seem to evolve into one another and that is perfectly embedded in its surroundings.
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| HOUSE FAUSTO |
photos Bamberghi Filippo |
This is the house and studio of a ceramic artist in Brescia, Italy. His practice is concerned with genetic research on plants and vegetation, planet earth’s exploitation by the humankind as well as nature’s spontaneous strategies to defend itself. He experiments with shapes and drawings, uses plain colour glazes as well as a neat and uncompromising mark-making. The artist aims to combine the traditional ceramic technique to modern and humble materials. And he is always ready for the next departure, willing to enlarge his knowledge, seeking contamination.
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| HOUSE HERAN |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
The private residence of architect Koen Heijse of the young Ghent based office Caan Architecten is a thoroughgoing paradox between minimalism and maximalism. The house is disrobed of all its applications so only the simplicity of form and the essence of material and details remain. The living experience seems to be in service of silence and is remarkably sculptural. However, at the same time the monolith radiates an extreme compactness. Drawings indeed unveil a complexity of daring spaces and distinctive circulations inside a strictly demarcated volume.
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| HOUSE IN THE PYRENEES |
photos Verne |
Hidden in the mountains of the Pyrenees lays an old farmhouse that recently has been restored for the owners to live in, but also for guests who are seeking serenity and silence. The owner is an artist and decorated the place in a very particular way. There are Moorish elements, African details and a sort of silence captured in every view. Be it the vista over the mountains towards the old village, or the view over the pool towards the Mediterranean. This house is truly a place to forget the rest of the world.
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| HOUSE IN THE WOODS |
photos Blee Sarah |
Hidden in the forest lays the discrete architecture of architects Eddy François en Caroline De Wolf. Fascinated by the Japanese principle of Wabi-sabi they built a home, where the beauty of the imperfect, incomplete and impermanent is celebrated.
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| HOUSE KNOKKE |
photos Verne |
The owners of this house really have a flair for vintage design. In their holiday house at the Belgian coast, they succeeded in combining historical pieces of Breuer, Eames, Ponti … The result is not only beautiful, but sociable too.
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| HOUSE LUJB |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
A young man moved away from the city of Ghent, to live near by his work. He bought an old dairy factory and transformed it into a contemporary house where all the rooms are equal to each other, as in a loft.
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| HOUSE MAJB |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
This house is not a traditional family home. It is a garçonnière (bachelor house). For typical domestic functions such as a laundry room, a pantry or storage no particular space was provided.
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| HOUSE MEGURO |
photos Giostra Roberto |
For this 30 square meter timbre-frame house, a hybrid post-and-beam structure, Yoneda and Ikeda created a ‘twisted’ exterior wall. Wit this sweeping gesture, the hyperbolic-paraboloid (HP) surface performs sculpturally, functionally and structurally, creating off-street parking and a three-story reflecting panel for rays passing through the skylight
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| HOUSE NICK & FRANK |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
Nick and Frank bought a small house near the city centre of Ghent. Originally, the house was divided in several small, bad ventilated rooms. The interior has been stripped down during the renovation. The result? A large open living area, downstairs, and a bathroom and bedroom, upstairs. The front façade is closed: an aware choice of the owners, to keep some privacy.
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| HOUSE NMS |
photos Lanoo Julien |
This house is located in a residential neighbourhood at the Belgian coast. The volume was constructed in three levels: a floor partly below street level, a ground floor on street level and a second floor. To minimize the (vertical) circulation, the stairs have been integrated in the different rooms by placing them in the middle of the spaces. The open first floor houses the kitchen, dining room, sitting room, work area and outside terrace. On the ground floor, the carport, storage room, entrance and the parents bedroom are located. And the lower floor houses the basement, bathroom, bedrooms and guestroom/playroom.
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| HOUSE ROELENS - VANDEKERKHOVE |
photos De Baerdemaeker Kat |
In the oldest part of Ghent, the Patershol, interior architect Patrick Roelens and his wife Karien Vandekerkhove, who is an artist, bought a small 18th century house. With a minimum of structural interventions but maximum creativity, they transformed the house into a contemporary home.
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| HOUSE STJB |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
Although the footprint of this transparent house is only 4,5m by 8m, every floor has the air of a large open room. The building structure of the house is left visible and nothing is plastered or tiled. It is not immediately clear if this is due to a lack of budget or the architect meant it to be like this.
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| HOUSE URJB |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
This neo classicistic corner house has been renovated. It houses a studio on the ground floor and a Bed & Breakfast and private quarters for the owner on the higher levels.
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| HOUSE UYTTENHOVE |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
This villa is build on a second plan in the garden of an existing 1920th villa. It expresses its position as a big garden pavilion. The plan is an attempt to a 'raumplan'. All the rooms have an explicit relation to the surrounding garden. From the outside the villa flirts with its art deco neighbours.
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| HOUSE VDW |
photos Dujardin Filip |
In this house in the Belgian Ardennes, there are 17 identical, elongated, upright windows in the facades. Their positions and combinations mean that several settings are created in this chalet using minimal resources and a limited floor area. The interior of the house is clad in oriented strand board (OSB).
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| HOUSE W |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
Flowing spaces and an intense relation with nature. After more than 35 years, the villa is still up to date. The inhabitants are fascinated by art, literature and timeless design. It is no surprise that they chose a poet-architect. With a striking preference for slope corners. To give and to take.
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| HOUSE WEVELGEM |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
The house stretches itself as much as possible in the length of the plot, in order to maximize the relation with its garden. The volume of the garage, at the side of the house, assures privacy in the back of the garden.
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| JACQUES VERNEST |
photos Verne |
This house is located in the artist village Sint-Maartens Latem, outside of Ghent. The owners have been living in this house for the past 40 years and it grew along with their lives. Typical modernist pieces, an old Thonet chair once belonging to the grandparents, but also contemporary pieces by Jasper Morisson or Maarten Van Severen furnish the house.
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| JEANNA |
photos Verne |
In a charming brownstone, right on the border between safe, familial Clinton Hill and rough Brooklyn, a young family set up their American life. The house oozes so much authenticity that they instantly fell in love with it.
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| JO VAN RIJCKEGHEM |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
Poetic family house.
The pure, rural surrounding where artist Jo Van Rijckeghem lives is unmistakeably reflected in his work.
Simplicity and sobriety set the tone in this warm family house, where creativity shimmers
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| JOSEPH KOSUTH |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
Joseph Kosuth’s city palace in Gent
The American artist Joseph Kosuth and art historian Cornelia Lauf used to live in this grand old city palace in Gent. They decorated it in a very particular way. They restored the old rooms and added some pieces of art by Marcel Duchamp or Joseph Kosuth himself. Behind the luscious inner garden Kosuth had his studio. In these ancient rooms, full of inspiration, he created his artworks.
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| JOSEPH KOSUTH NY |
photos Verne |
The loft of Joseph Kosuth has that typical factory feel, resulting from the invisible beams and pipes in the large rooms. The decoration happened gradually and evolved with the inhabitants. The majority of the furniture has been found at flea markets.
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| KOENIG |
photos Verne |
Case Study House No. 22
This monument in the architectural history was built in 1959 by Pierre Koenig. Thanks to the iconographic photographs of Julius Shulman taken at the time of finishing the project, this house of Mr. and Mrs. Stahl stands symbol for the American fifties and the Californian dream.
Together with Mrs. Stahl we watched the sun set over Los Angeles and listened to her stories about more than 45 years of living in what to her is a simple family house.
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| LEON STYNEN |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
In 1933 the Modernist architect Leon Stynen built his own home in Antwerp on the previous Expo site. The Council of Antwerp had the idea to create a district like the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart, where only modernist homes could be built. Alas, this dream was never realised, but Stynen did design nine houses in his peculiar style. His own home has recently been renovated.
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| LIVING ON BROADWAY |
photos Verne |
Living on Broadway is already a sensation in itself. And when the flat is decorated in a grand fifties style, by one of New York’s important architects, James Biber from Pentagram, one can consider oneself a lucky person. We were able to share this sensation; for two days we stayed in the private rooms of a film director and a writer. Their names must remain secret, but their interior we can share with you.
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| LOFT ANTWERP |
photos Blee Sarah |
Two former apartments have been transformed into a contemporary loft & office. Using coloured walls, the inventive play between the open plan & the cosy, natural light versus subtle artificial lighting, old and new elements merge into a comfortable and colourful home environment.'
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| LOFT BOOM |
photos De Baerdemaeker Kat |
The owners of this loft did not always dream of living in a loft. Quite the contrary, they were looking for a classic mansion. During their search they came across an old mill that soon would be transformed into lofts. Their search stopped then and there, they had found their perfect home.
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| LOFT BRUSSELS |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
A warehouse in the centre of Brussels has been transformed into a loft. Windows have been placed over the entire south side of the living area to allow the daylight to come into the room as much as possible. Because of the large windows, a perforated ceiling was necessary to improve the acoustic. The children’s room, playroom and living room are situated around a patio.
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| LOFT DMVA |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
dmvA stands for: ‘by means of Architecture’ (door middel van Architectuur). It is a young architects-duo, which aims to make extreme architecture. By this they mean architecture without compromises. This loft in Brussels is a good example. The young couple that lives in it wanted an open space but a separate bed and bathroom. The architects came up with the solution of movable boxes made out of the canvasses used for trucks and trailers
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| LONG ISLAND SUMMERHOUSE |
photos Verne |
The architect of this summerhouse in Long Island designed in a minimal architecture a luxurious interior. The rooms are simple boxes in soft colours, furbished with baroque pieces, classical 50ies furniture and Asian antiques.
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| MAARTEN VAN SEVEREN PAVILION |
photos Verne |
Belgian designer/architect Maarten Van Severen is known for his furniture design, of which most is produced by Vitra. He has also collaborated on different prestigious architectural projects, such as the Van Abbe Museum, or Maison à Bordeaux by OMA. Van Severen only realised one complete new building, as an annex to a renovation of an existing cottage. The result is an extraordinary composition: a country house from 1904, a contemporary glass pavilion, a romantic garden by Aldrik Heirman and an astonishing collection of furniture pieces from the past 50 years. Sadly enough Maarten Van Severen never saw this project completely finished, as he passed away last winter, far too young.
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| MADE IN INDIA |
photos Ocelli Laura |
The owner of this apartment is a fashion designer, originally from New Delhi, who moved to New York twenty-two years ago. Light and colourful are the essential keys to describing the interior of the loft.
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| MADELEINE |
photos Hendrikx Diane |
The owner of this property loves to travel around the world and collects gadgets from all over. They are an inspiration for her work and the red thread in her interior. The loft she lives in exists of three following rooms, each with a clear distinct function: working, living, and sleeping.
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| MANSION 1890 |
photos Verne |
This mansion was built in the 19th century and is situated in the middle of the Jewish quarter of Antwerp. The house has always been respected by its previous owners, it reflects a minimalist, lived through atmosphere and is adapted to contemporary comfort without losing its personality. It can be described in only a few words: no nonsense, romantic, forgotten glory, discretion, …
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| MATIN |
photos Verne |
The house is located in the Hollywood hills and is decorated in a very European way. Not only because one of the owners is originally British, but mainly because they love a European lifestyle, mixed with the laid-back Californian way of living. Their modernistic fifties home is centred around a beautiful swimming pool, which seems to be excavated from the hill slope. They respected the original open-plan architecture and just added some beautiful art pieces and modern furniture.
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| MELROSE PLACE |
photos Brown June & John |
An old factory has been transformed in several lofts and artist workshops. In one of the lofts lives the owner with her two daughters. The interior of the house has grown over the years. It is a collection of things that she got as a gift or bought on a flea market.
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| MEN'S WORLD |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
In this renovated old house, the staircase, which brings you from floor to floor, is the centrepiece of the house. The small rooms on each floor are connected through mezzanines. The architect does not believe in meticulous architectural calculation, but in creating different atmospheres. The experience is all that matters.
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| MET HERT EN ZIEL |
photos Hendrikx Diane |
Popular 'kitsch' elements as Swiss chalets, cuckoo clocks, dear heads are combined with fifties and sixties design icons, as the chairs by Robin Day, the perplex by Eero Aarnio and the Vola's of Arne Jacobsen. Like in fashion, the owner loves to combine classic pieces with vintage fun.
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| MILL LOFT |
photos Ocvirk Kus Danica |
An old industrial mill has been transformed into loft units. One of the lofts was bought by antique collectors. The Venetian glass, antiques and design furniture in the white ambience create an exciting and theatrical feeling.
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| MINIMALIST HOUSE |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
White, beige and grey are the colours that dominate this house. It feels like a monastery for one single couple. In the midst of green fields, the minimalism of the interior seems to compensate for the lush surroundings.
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| MONASTERY |
photos Verne |
An entire wing of a Tuscan monastery has been converted into a place where the owner can live in perfect harmony with history, his artistic creations and the wealthy fellow-villager. The interior design of the house is very sober and emphasizes the historical character and architecture of the old monastery. “I try to add my own history to the building, without violating its original character. This house demands quality. The spare decorative items must be of solid quality.”
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| MONTMOREAU CASTLE |
photos Gabriel Jean-Pierre |
The Montmoreau castle, a classified historical monument from 1453 in the Charente in France is being restaurated. In the restoration process the greenhouse and the 18th century house have already been restored.
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| MORRIS LAPIDUS |
photos Verne |
In 2001, Morris Lapidus died at the age of 98. In his lifetime the critics of high architecture never appreciated his work, on the contrary.
The New York Times once wrote: ‘it is super schlock. Pornography of architecture.’ Nevertheless, Lapidus designed 1,200 buildings, including 250 hotels worldwide, applying a showmanship and theatrical aesthetic that thrilled pleasure seeking people (?). One of his most famous works is the Fontainebleau built in 1954. The famous resort, with its Hollywood-inspired version of Old World style, would later be used in scenes of the 1964 James Bond film, "Goldfinger."
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| MULTIFUNCTIONAL HOME |
photos Dujardin Filip |
This 19th century house was renovated with a maximum respect for the original features of the house. The multifunctional rooms that were created can be closed or opened up by moveable partitioning walls. The red colour is a reference to the owners love for Henri van de Velde and Bauhaus, where red was often used in interiors.
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| NY INTERIOR DV |
photos Verne |
What was meant as a temporary home, became the new family home. The living room gives away the owner her Latin roots: large plants create a very special ambience, as a garden in a living room. Her fine taste for art deco and modernistic furniture gives this apartment a timeless feeling with a jazzy air.
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| NY INTERIOR FL |
photos Verne |
This apartment, on the top floor of a former industrial building on Broadway, belongs to an architect couple. They kept the space very raw and created different living and working area’s. Like gardens in a wild environment. The office, the kitchen, the living room and the bedrooms all have a slightly different atmosphere in an overall subtle interior. The red threat through this place is the mid century design by people like Jean Prouvé and Hans Wegner, and their modest but exquisite art & book collection.
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| NY INTERIOR JG |
photos Verne |
A gallery is situated on the ground floor of this house, the rest of the building is the owners' family house. Art and life is in a very interesting and quirky way intertwined.
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| NY INTERIOR LP |
photos Verne |
This downtown loft is a mix of sixties fashion with an intriguing Pop Art collection, vintage furniture and a lively ambience. The bright colours of the interior reflect the enthusiasm of the owner.
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| NY INTERIOR MV |
photos Verne |
A photographer and stylist met one another in New York on a job for the Italian Vogue some twenty years ago. Today they still live in New york, with their teenage twins. From their townhouse on the Upper East they run a successful fashion photography studio.
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| OUTGAARDEN |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
Architects 51N4E were asked to renovate this house. They proposed to rearrange the desired programs, so that each programmatic shift would engender new relationships. The pool, by the client initially imagined in the backyard, is placed in the middle of the courtyard. The kitchen is moved to the periphery of the farm, in order to optimize deliveries and access to storage spaces. Everything in the design underscores the contrast between the kitchen and the storage space. In between kitchen and storage an exclusive Carrara Bianca sliding wall is inserted.
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| PALM SPRINGS |
photos Verne |
Under the burning sun of Palm Springs lays this motel. A typical fifties hang-out, which people like Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner and others used as their favourite hide-out. Today the motel is the overnight Mecca of the architectural tourist who comes to admire the Kaufmann house by Neutra, or the Fire Station by Albert Frey. Palm Springs has more than 600 houses, shops and hotels built in the American 'Contemporary Style' of the fifties. It was the proof of the 'American dream'. Today Palm Springs is not that often visited by movie stars, but rather by architecture and design lovers. The motel meets the desires of the new public, since every room is decorated in a different fifties style: the Marilyn Monroe room, the Jasper Johns Room, The Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Suite.
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| PALMS |
photos Verne |
Venice Beach is undoubtedly still the favourite hangout of artists and bohemians. The architect of this property had the chance to build his new home in Venice. He created a building that looks like a modern Bohemian shelter. Large coloured windshields cover the main façade, so the privacy of his family is guaranteed even when the building is completely open. With an ingenious system of huge windows, which open from floor to ceiling. This is the ideal home of the contemporary BoBo. One lives practically outside, but with all the comfort of a modern home.
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| PATIO + HOUSE |
photos Lindman Åke E:son |
This project consists of two houses, lived in by one family.
Originally the building was a small school, converted in the 90-ies.
Recently an additional house, as part of the patio, has been designed. Using a meticulous grid the architects created transparent inside and outside rooms, with a changing wallpaper according to the seasons.
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| PAVILION |
photos Ocvirk Kus Danica |
Belgian designer Maarten Van Severen designed this garden pavilion for two brothers who own a catering company. The pavilion includes the kitchen, reception area and home of one of the owners.
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| PIERRE MISSEGHERS |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
This house, built in 1963 is an example of popular art deco. The new owner stressed the art-deco feeling by colouring the walls and by painting a huge mural inspired by the work of 'Tamara de Lempicka '. As a finishing touch, he added throughout the house interesting illuminating objects, by contemporary artists.
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| PIETER DEBRUYNE |
photos Dujardin Filip |
From the street, this house looks quite ordinary. Only the round mirror in the door and the blue glass of the windows suggest that behind the façade a particular interior lays hidden. It used to be the private home of furniture and interior designer Pieter De Bruyne. He renovated the house in the seventies and created a mystical atmosphere.
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| RAFAEL VINOLY LI |
photos Verne |
Diana Vignoly, the wife of the well-known architect Rafael Vignoly redecorated an old Long Island summerhouse into a haven of comfort and authenticity. Hidden in the green, the white house on top of a slope is surrounded by beautiful gardens. The interior is a mix of ethnic pieces and antiques bought at the local yard sales.
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| RICARDO BOFILL |
photos Verne |
Like a stronghold, the old cement factory reigns the surrounding, just outside Barcelona. The controversial Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill fell for the impressive architecture and bought the substantial complex 25 years ago. It currently houses offices and his own talked-about and very comfortable residence.
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| RICHARD NEUTRA |
photos Verne |
This house was the location of the Hollywood movie: Laurel Canyon. After the film, the director decided to have the original Neutra House, -built in 1934 for the Sten-Frenke family-, reconstructed and redecorated. The architects Marmol -Razinger were responsible for the renovations. James Biber of Pentagram took care of the interiors. The result is a grand combination of a historical building with a contemporary interpretation of a fifties interior.
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| RITA |
photos Brown June & John |
After a career at an Antwerp fashion designer, Rita moved to Mallorca. There, she found the perfect plot of land, designed and built her house and started a children’s clothing line.
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| RYAD SHARAI |
photos Verne |
One of the four biggest Ryads in Marrakech is hidden behind a weather-beaten door in the narrow streets of the Bab Tharhzout quarter. A Ryad is a house with patio. The patio of this historical building is very large indeed, and that was the reason why Laurence Kluft and Michael Arts fell in love with this place the moment they saw it.
The house has seven bedrooms and five bathrooms. All the bedrooms are situated around the patio and the pool. Behind the labyrinth of rooms there is a staircase leading to the terraces. From there you have a magnificent view of the city
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| SINAAI |
photos Blee Sarah |
The typical dark-brown colour palette of the old farmhouse had to make place for light colours. Nostalgic elements like the old fireplaces and the original flooring were restored and form a perfect backdrop for the modern elements.
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| SKY STUDIO |
photos Verne |
This loft on the twelfth floor of an old building on Broadway has been designed by its inhabitant and architect Jonathan Leitersdorf. Its style is grandiose. You have the impression that you are walking from a castle, via a French kitchen to the souks, or through an Indian gate to a luxurious French bathroom.
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| SMALL SPACE |
photos Blee Sarah |
Although this small house has a footprint of only five by seven meters, the rooms feel spacious. In each floor another coloured box stands central in the open plan. The boxes house the technical rooms as kitchen and bathroom.
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| SOTTSASS BIRDHOUSE |
photos Gabriel Jean-Pierre |
Italian architect Ettore Sottsass designed a spectacular home for a Belgian galerist. The house is like a small city, with centrally a huge cage where the owner has his favourite birds. On the side of the birdhouse are the different night-and dayrooms of the family. On the top floor there is a large kitchen and dining room, almost like a restaurant. Although the house is huge and the rooms very spacious, Sottsass created a cosy, bohemian feeling atmosphere.
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| SOTTSASS LANAKEN |
photos Verne |
Ettore Sottsass is famous for his ceramics, furniture and the designer’s collective Memphis. Over the past few years the eighty three year old designer and architect has started to build houses too, in Hongkong, the United States and in Belgium.
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| SPACE CABINE |
photos Dujardin Filip |
Because the owners did not have the budget to renovate their entire house, in the city centre of Ghent, at once, they designed a small studio on 38m2 like a space cabin in James Bond style.
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| STAMBERG & AFERIAT |
photos Verne |
Architects Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat love a sober design and lots of colours. Each of their projects has its own story. To be sure the mix of colours will not be kitsch, they base their choices on one or more works of art.
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| STEINFELD |
photos De Baerdemaeker Kat |
The owners of this house wanted a modern and comfortable family house. And a place where they could expose their art collection. The result is a contemporary home in a respectable villa district on the outskirts of Brussels.
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| STUART PARR LI |
photos Verne |
Le Corbusier had one, Philippe Starck has one and here and there some BoBo’s prefer them over a villa by the sea: A shack by the sea. The New Yorker Stuart Parr lives in a fancy loft in Manhattan, but on weekends he drives his red pick up truck to Long Island, where he and his friends enjoy the ‘simple’ life. The wooden shack is no more than a roof over the kitchen and the bedroom. But nevertheless heaven on earth.
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| STUDIO LONDON |
photos Blee Sarah |
This modern conversion and extension of a Victorian Terrace House in London creates a living and working environment which integrates both office and home.
The home converts from a working office by day to a family home by night with surprising ease.
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| SURFERS HOME |
photos Verne |
This home can best be described as a luxury base-camp for a surfer’s family. Along the Belgian coast architects Renaud De Poorter and Femke Holdrinet transformed this former basement warehouse into a cosy holiday resort
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| TANNERY |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
This house used to be a tannery and a coach house. It is hard to grasp the original architecture of the house, it feels as if the rooms are strangely linked and clasped between the neighbouring houses. You do not experience it as a house, but as a collection of adjacent rooms in which the owner searches for authenticity and harmony between his artworks and the inspiring past.
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| TANNERY.01 |
photos Verne |
This house used to be a tannery and a coach house. It is hard to grasp the original architecture of the house, it feels as if the rooms are strangely linked and clasped between the neighbouring houses. You do not experience it as a house, but as a collection of adjacent rooms in which the owner searches for authenticity and harmony between his artworks and the inspiring past.
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| TEAMWORK |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
The owners of this house are both designers. He as an interior decorator, she makes art. With joined strength and a lot of creativeness they decorated their house. The result is a captivating mix of design classics, vintage and a subtle personal input.
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| TECTA |
photos Brown June & John |
When Axel Bruchhäuser from TECTA met the British architects Alison and Peter Smithson in 1980, the idea grew to build a contemporary museum for his chair collection. Over the years the Smithsons redesigned his home and his factory according to the concept of ‘Conglomerate Ordering’. On the factory grounds the creative couple intervened on several places, making it into an ‘industrial park’ á la Schinkel, an old dream of Axel Bruchhäuser. The main buildings house the Kragstuhlmuseum. We recently had the opportunity to visit and photograph the TECTA offices and museum.
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| TEMPORARY LOFT |
photos Verne |
This temporary loft is situated in an old factory. The owners are transforming the ground floor and first floor into a gallery and home. During the transformation they live on the top floor, which they decorated in a clever way.
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| TEMPORARY OFFICE |
photos Kempenaers Jan |
This temporary office is situated in Brussels. It is constructed out of recycled industrial materials. The designers describe it as legal squatting. They never asked permission to the town, to build this, but they do have permission from the owner of the plot. The neighbourhood also gave their permission for this yellow parasite.
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| TEN BOS |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
This old farmhouse has been transformed in a contemporary home for the owners and their three sons. The ground floor houses a library and work-zone, kitchen, living room and bedroom for the parents. On the first floor, the children have their bedroom.
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| THE HOUSE AROUND THE STAIRWAYS |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
This cabinet worker’s studio from 1931 has been restored into a cosy-loft-like residence with a lot of respect for the past. The owners live and work in the same space. A central large stairway with vistas from the different rooms and floors is the core of the house.
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| THE JAMES BOND HOUSE |
photos Verne |
The owner of this futuristic home hoped that, one day, Sean Connery would set foot in his house. ‘Even though the architect and his wife rarely leave the house, they have an impressive garage. Only a glass partition separates the hall leading to the bedrooms from the garage. Under white sheets we discover a BMW motorcycle, the old black Citroen CX, a 2CV and a Porsche bearing the license number 008. During our visit to the house I could not help thinking of James Bond. The flair, the plain luxury, the dramatic architecture and scenery were reminiscent of his style. Although it is not proper to ask an architect if James Bond inspires him, I did make a slight insinuation towards the car. I expected an intellectual answer but got this instead: “I am obviously not 007, but I am 008. I did once send a letter to James, to say he would be welcome to use our house as a film set, but I never received an answer.”
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| THE MODERNIST |
photos Verne |
His company name is 'the modernist', but Lukasz Majewski is interested in much more than just modernist furniture. His apartment in Antwerp is like a treasure room, where he keeps all his favourite pieces: a drawing by Joe Colombo, a picture by Man Ray, original 50ies pieces by Prouvé, sofas from the SAS lounge designed by Arne Jacobsen,... At the age of 28 he has gathered an impressing collection.
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| TIMBER LOFT |
photos Hendrikx Diane |
An old warehouse has been reconverted and divided in lofts. The open space is visually split up by wooden constructions. On one side of the room the kitchen, on the other the night zone. Above the bathroom, washroom and closet lays his bedroom, witch is no more than a bed overlooking the open space.
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| TOM CALLEBAUT |
photos Verne |
Interior architect Tom Callebaut created a house for his young family. He wanted a place where it is fun and relaxing to go home to. A kind of everlasting vacation feeling. He transformed the traditional house into a modern living space without doors, and with rooms that are evolving into one another.
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| TOWER HOUSE |
photos Gabriel Jean-Pierre |
With a footprint of only 13m by 6,40m this modern tower oversees the landscape and is both compact and monumental. The main reason why architect and owner chose for a vertical instead of a horizontal home is their respect for the old trees on the terrain. Any other form would have meant that trees had to be chopped down.
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| TRANSFORMED WAREHOUSE |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
In the old historical heart of Gent, stylist Christa bought an old warehouse and reconstructed it into a spacious home. The basic of the architecture is black, white and grey colours. The strong and bright colour details are temporary, because for Christa, a house is a laboratory and changes everyday.
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