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Objects of Fascination

2020-2021
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Objects of Fascination

FELT designed a series of aluminium coffee tables for the Objects of Fascination project.

Objects of Fascination

Location: BE, Brussels
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: FELT, Maxime Delvaux & Jeroen Verecht
Image: Saul Leiter, Red Umbrella, 1951, “Early Color.”

Club chair, Maniera

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Club chair, Maniera

FELT was invited by Maniera to design a club chair.

Club chair, Maniera

Location: BE, Brussels
Client: Maniera
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: Jerroen Verrecht & FELT

Central Gate, Brussels

2019-2021
Design, Public, Objects

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Central Gate, Brussels

FELT was invited by Maniera, along with several other architects and designers, to design the interior of the coworking space inside the Central Gate building in Brussels, designed mid-thirties by Alexis Dumont.

Central Gate, Brussels

Location: BE, Brussels
Client: Maniera
Status: Built

General layout by doorzon interieurarchitecten

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: Jerroen Verrecht & FELT

As Found, De Singel, Antwerp

2022-2023
Design, Scenography, Public

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As Found, De Singel, Antwerp

As Found: Experiments in Preservation focuses on the new relationship between contemporary design and heritage. The scenography by FELT utilises the existing exhibition hall as ‘found architecture’. Floor and ceiling elements are suspended to conceive a new framework in which the objects are presented.

As Found, De Singel, Antwerp

Location: BE, Antwerp
Client: VAi
Surface: 214 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: FELT, Stijn Bollaert

(un)common values, Nationale Bank van België, Brussels

2021-2022
Design, Scenography, Public

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(un)common values, Nationale Bank van België, Brussels

(un)common values, Nationale Bank van België, Brussels

FELT designed the scenography for (un)common values, an exhibition curated by both the National Bank of Belgium and the Banco de España.

(un)common values, Nationale Bank van België, Brussels

Location: BE, Brussels
Client: National Bank of Belgium
Surface: 12950 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut, Sarai Olabarrieta
Consultant: Chris Pype (Light)
Contractor: Aorta+
Images: Jeroen Verrecht, FELT

Imagining the Universe, M Leuven

2020-2021
Design, Scenography, Public

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Imagining the Universe, M Leuven

FELT designed the scenography for the exhibition 'Imagining the Universe' in M Leuven.

Imagining the Universe, M Leuven

Location: BE, Leuven
Client: M Leuven
Surface: 1020 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: Chris Pype
Images: Dirk Pauwels

Delen Pavilion, Biennale Kortrijk

2018
Design, Scenography, Public

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Delen Pavilion, Biennale Kortrijk

FELT designed a temporary exhibition pavilion for Private Bank Delen at Interieur Kortrijk.

A sequence of ten identical square rooms shows the work of modernist architect Léon Stynen through drawings, models and photographs.
Colorful metal furniture pieces are designed specifically for the pavilion and spread throughout the exhibition.

Delen Pavilion, Biennale Kortrijk

Location: BE, Kortrijk
Client: Private Bank Delen
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Graphic design: Gestalte
Images: Bart Kiggen, Gestalte, FELT

Object Stories, Design Museum Gent

2017
Design, Scenography, Public

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Object Stories, Design Museum Gent

Together with doorzon we had the chance to develop a new concept for the presentation of the permanent collection of the Design museum in Ghent. The premise: A permanent collection shouldn’t necessary result in a permanent exhibition. This partially 'curatorial' challenge, in opening up a +20.000 pieces strong collection towards the broad public, induced a design proposal that aims at incorporating ‘room for doubt’.
By closing off the inner core of the building from the space around it we consolidate the spatial duality that was already inherent in the plan. The perambulation around our newly created center we use to showcase a selection of masterpieces. The core itself provides a place for experiment: A permanent resource for temporary interventions continuously revisiting the collection in its full range and depth.

Object Stories, Design Museum Gent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: Design museum Gent
Surface: 1000 sqm
Status: Built

In collaboration with doorzon interieurarchitecten

FELT Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: doorzon interieurarchitecten, FELT, Michiel De Cleene

Please Have a Seat, Kortrijk

2021
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Please Have a Seat, Kortrijk

FELT was working closely together with Wefapress for over a year, investigating the possibilities of their unique PE-plastics in interior design, when the company got hit by a devastating fire ruining their entire production facilities in Vreden. Inspired by their resilience as a company and impelled by their determination to move forward, we helped them to ‘pick up the pieces’. We looked into the scares leftover material and used it to design two unique pieces of furniture, both at show on PHAS.

The Piano stool is aimfully designed as a cheerful object. Referring both to the mid-century optimism associated with plastic design, as much as representing the perpetual good spirit of the Wefa family while going through these challenging times.

The After-eight is a concept that investigates the application of scent in furniture design. A unique leftover research sample sheet of mint infused PE was used to clad the inside of a circular lounge chair, perfect for rocking yourself asleep after a heavy meal. A chair as an after dinner mint?

Please Have a Seat, Kortrijk

Location: BE, Kortrijk
Client: Wefapress
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultant: Frank Ternier
Images: FELT, Frank Ternier

Bookshop, M Leuven, Leuven

2016 - 2017
Design, Interior, Public, Objects

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Bookshop, M Leuven, Leuven

The museum lobby is conceived as a ‘hub': a space that helps the public to orientate towards the galleries, the ticket desk or the cafeteria. The existing architecture provides no more than what the intended function asks for, merely the space itself. Ad hoc additions (multimedia desk, promotion, shop, kids-corner…) transformed it into a place of clutter.
The challenge was to incorporate those necessary additions without neglecting the purity of the space. The design consists of a single intervention, the introduction of three mirroring cubes. When spread out in the space they reflect their surroundings, adding new perspectives. Bright primal colors in their interior mark their distinct functions and add fragments of color to the sober interior of the lobby.

Bookshop, M Leuven, Leuven

Location: BE, Leuven
Client: M Leuven
Surface: 1000 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Samuele Xompero, Bram Denkens
Consultants: BAS, Nick Top
Images: Frederik Vercruysse, FELT

Behind The Curtain, Biennale Kortrijk

2014
Design, Interior, Public

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Behind The Curtain, Biennale Kortrijk

The idea for this Award-winning project for the 2014 Interior Biennale in Kortrijk derives from the consideration that space is a scarce good on most fairs. Booths are crammed side to side and constantly screaming for the public’s attention.
In the same way a city park can be an escape from busy traffic, Behind the Curtain offers a pause from the noise and visual overload of the fair. Arranged along the solid base of two marble bars it offers intimate seats comfortably embraced by a silky curtain. Therefore, aside from the food and drinks it provides, this bar’s biggest asset might be the hiding space it generates.

Behind The Curtain, Biennale Kortrijk

Location: BE, Kortrijk
Client: Biennale Interieur
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten
Images: Bart Kiggen, Filip Dujardin, FELT

Bar Pilar, Brussels

2018-2019
Design, Interior, Private, Hospitality

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Bar Pilar, Brussels

Bvba Ofnee + Duvel Moortgat entrusted us with the interior design of the brand new KultuurKaffee PILAR at the VUB campus Brussels.

We designed a wooden canopy to improve the acoustic comfort and added a most welcome splash of color to the austere concrete interior.

Bar Pilar, Brussels

Location: BE, Brussels
Client: Duvel Moortgat
Surface: 165 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: FELT

Sous-sol, Forest

2015-2016
Design, Interior, Private

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Sous-sol, Forest

The ‘sous-sol’ of this belle-époque townhouse in Brussels was completely refurbished, turning it into a luxuries studio apartment. At the back the façade was opened up towards the garden, extending the kitchen space onto a new private courtyard. The interior features a unique material pallet consisting of warm teak wood wall coverings, sage green cement flooring, charcoal colored fiber cement cupboards, a marbles composite kitchen counter and custom designed brass fittings.

Sous-sol, Forest

Location: BE, Vorst (Brussels)
Client: Private
Surface: 60 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen
Images: FELT

Scenography, KMSKA, Antwerp

2016
Design, Scenography, Public

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Scenography, KMSKA, Antwerp

FELT teamed up with doorzon interieurarchitecten in the competition for the interior design & scenography for the new KMSKA.

Scenography, KMSKA, Antwerp

Location: BE, Antwerp
Client: KMSKA
Surface: 25000 sqm
Status: Competition

In collaboration with doorzon interieurarchitecten

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Bram Denkens, Seppe Claes
Consultant: Chris Pype (Light)
Graphic & interaction design: LAVA
Images: Barbara Joseph, doorzon interieurarchitecten, FELT

De Wonderjaren in Maquettes (VAI), Knokke

2015 - 2016
Design, Scenography, Public

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De Wonderjaren in Maquettes (VAI), Knokke

De Wonderjaren in Maquettes (VAI), Knokke

The exhibition "Thirty Years of Architecture in Flanders - The Wonder Years in architectural models" features the groundbreaking and pioneering projects from that period. It offers a comprehensive overview of the leading figures, facts and events that have contributed to the flourishing architectural culture of Flanders.

De Wonderjaren in Maquettes (VAI), Knokke

Location: BE, Knokke-Heist
Client: Vlaams Architectuur Instituut
Surface: 800 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Bartolomeo Zanotti, Esmeralda Misseghers
Graphic desing: Bureau Grusenmeyer
Images: Stijn Bollaert

Beyond Klimt, BOZAR, Brussels

2018
Design, Scenography, Public

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Beyond Klimt, BOZAR, Brussels

'Beyond Klimt' starts with paintings by Gustav Klimt and brings together works of former Austro-Hungarian artists who, after the fall of the empire at the end of WWI, each placed their artistic identity before their nationality. The scenography design accommodates a unifying atmosphere leading the visitors through different rooms and chapters. A ribbon of hand drawn pencil lines forms a continuous guideline. It's changing rhythm provides a means to alternate intensity throughout the different rooms. Similar vertical lines shape the marbled plastic benches and pedestals.

Beyond Klimt, BOZAR, Brussels

Location: BE, Brussels
Client: Bozar
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: FELT, Philippe De Gobert

rXX, Scaleless Object

2017-
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rXX, Scaleless Object

In essence rXX is a scaleless object: four arches supporting a perforated disk. The radius defines its size and functionality, the materiality is chosen accordingly.
With a radius of 22cm (r22) the scaleless object becomes a lightweight flat-pack stool, made out of 3 pieces of recycled plastic.

rXX, Scaleless Object

Status: On sale

Contact us for more information and prices

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten
Images: FELT

Coffee counter, Turnhout

2018
Design, Interior, Public

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Coffee counter, Turnhout

FELT was selected to propose an artistic intervention for the new community center in Turnhout.

Intrigued by the slight rotations in the plan, we looked for the center point and used it to draw an arc spanning the width of the space. It resulted in an elongated aluminium piece of furniture with a lens-like shape. It might easily function as a coffee counter but at the same time it seems averse to any functionality in the way it blends in, reflecting the thoroughfare.

Coffee counter, Turnhout

Location: BE, Turnhout
Client: Zorggroep Orion
Status: Competition

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: FELT

In Search Of Utopia, M Leuven, Leuven

2015 - 2016
Design, Scenography, Public

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In Search Of Utopia, M Leuven, Leuven

Five hundred years ago Thomas More wrote his infamous masterpiece "Utopia". The importance and influence of his book throughout the last five centuries has been astounding. On the occasion of this anniversary Illuminare (KUL) and Museum M initiated the exhibition "In search of Utopia".
FELT’s design for the scenography was selected through an invited competition.

In Search Of Utopia, M Leuven, Leuven

Location: BE, Leuven
Client: M Leuven
Surface: 1200 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Bram Denkens, Bartolomeo Zanotti
Consultant: Chris Pype (Light)
Construction: 3CS
Images: Filip Dujardin, FELT

Jenevermuseum, Hasselt

2012 - 2014
Design, Scenography, Public

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Jenevermuseum, Hasselt

The Jenevermuseum is characterized by heavy wooden trusses and an abundance of crude brickwork. The scenography aims to introduce a new lightness within the historic site. Slender white structures are positioned between the bulky beams. The result is a juxtaposition that results in a continuous interplay between dark and light, solid and slim, old and new.

Jenevermuseum, Hasselt

Location: BE, Hasselt
Client: Madoc, Municipality of Hasselt
Surface: 1200 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Thomas Roelandts (Marge)
Consultants: Superdamned, Koen Bruyneel, Ineke Wellens, Maison Caro
Images: Bart Kiggen

Construction Trailer, Vlimmeren

2014
Design, Interior, Private

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Construction Trailer, Vlimmeren

In 2012 the clients bought a discarded construction trailer from the local municipality with the idea of using it as a place to rest, play or study for them and their two sons.
We decided to completely strip and replace the existing finishings. Inside, the archetypical rounded roof shape is copied and finished in plywood. The outside is covered with small strips of oak. The husk is only interrupted by a large circular opening: a dome-shaped skylight was mounted upon the facade allowing light and the surrounding meadows to enter. A flexible organization with shelves on different heights was designed for the interior; this way the trailer can be arranged as a place to sleep, as well as to work or play.

Construction Trailer, Vlimmeren

Location: BE, Vlimmeren
Client: private
Surface: 8 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Karel Verstraeten
Images: FELT

Utopia, Inverted Island

2016
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Utopia, Inverted Island

When Thomas More published Utopia in 1516, nobody knew where the island could have been located. Nowadays every square inch of land is mapped: Gone mystery, gone imagination. On top of that almost all land is crammed. Luckily there is still the ocean, as more or less uncultivated terrain.
When CANVAS asked us to design a current day Utopia we envisioned an inverted-island: An oversized ring, reclaiming land. Conceived as a giant retaining wall, it is a singular architectural gesture that is at once building and city. It is completely detached from the world around it, but the land it holds on the ocean floor can provide the goods for its inhabitants. Utopia meets Atlantis, let’s say.

Utopia, Inverted Island

Client: CANVAS
Status: Study

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Samuele Xompero
Consultants: 3CS, Van den Weghe
Images: FELT

ATC Tables

2016
Design, Interior, Objects

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ATC Tables

The table is called 'After the Curtain', referring to the origin of the marble sheet that once was belonged to the counters in the Behind-the-Curtain-project for the Biennial Interieur in 2014. The picture shows the first of a limited series of tables designed to reuse each singular piece of marble recovered from the fair.

ATC Tables

Status: On Sale

Contact us for more information and prices

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten
Images: FELT

The Hungry City, MAS, Antwerp

2015
Design, Scenography, Public

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The Hungry City, MAS, Antwerp

Based on Carolyn Steel's bestseller "The hungry City", MAS initiated an exhibition that entails the rich history, present and future of Antwerp perceived through food.
FELT's proposal was nominated as winner of the international call.

The Hungry City, MAS, Antwerp

Location: BE, Antwerp
Client: MAS
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Esmeralda Misseghers, Bram Denkens
Consultants: Pantopicon (curator, glass pavillion)
Graphic design: LAVA
Images: Pieter Kers, FELT

Public Library, Merelbeke

2018
Design, Objects, Public, Interior

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Public Library, Merelbeke

FELT designed new desks for a public library and with it a series of accessories: white metal mesh add-ons providing additional functionalities.

Public Library, Merelbeke

Location: BE, Merelbeke
Client: Bibliotheek Merelbeke
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: FELT