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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

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

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

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

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Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten
Images: 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