(03)Projects/Interior

Maison 17

Antwerp, Belgium / 2025

Sunlight from a tall window falling across a potted plant and a plaster wall

Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Year: 2025
Scope: Interior architecture
Area: 190 m²
Status: Completed
Materials: Brushed steel / Stone / Linen

The upper floors of a nineteenth-century townhouse, rebuilt as one continuous interior of stone, steel and soft light.

Maison 17 is a study in quiet contrast. The existing house is tall, dark and heavily ornamented; the apartment we made inside it is low-lit, matt and almost bare.

Bathrooms are carved from single slabs of stone. Joinery is brushed steel and linen. Every surface is chosen to take light softly and return it a little warmer.

Lounge with a framed artwork on a board-marked concrete wall and low upholstered seating — **Fig. 01**Salon, concrete-finish plaster and a single work

Freestanding white bath beside a dark louvred window — **Fig. 02**Main bathroom, louvred window to the courtyard

Corner of a room with a low sofa, a stone side table and a framed work in raking light — **Fig. 03**Reading corner at the end of the day

“A room is finished when nothing is left to remove.”

Detail of an artwork hung on board-marked concrete — **Detail**Hanging detail, salon

Bathroom with a stone basin counter, oak vanity and arched mirror — **Fig. 04**Guest bathroom, stone counter and oak vanity

DetailLate light, dressing room
DetailBrushed steel, joinery pull

Credits

Architecture: Elise Martens
Interior architecture: Julien De Clercq
Objects & furniture: Mila Verhaeghe
Photography: Placeholder — see README

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