Crossing in Antwerp
A seventeenth-century day. Goods arrive at the docks of the port of Antwerp from every corner of the world: from Europe, from the Tropics, from the Americas. The city’s outlook is vast, its character strong and tangible. Ideas travel as well, and Paul Rubens journeys to Italy to study Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian.
When he returns to Antwerp, he is a different artist, original because he is exceptionally cultured. His home is now a museum. And every home inspired by the same openness, by that broad and vibrant vision, becomes a small yet grand masterpiece in the art of living well. In architecture, whether imposing or discreet, the design of ‘art de vivre’ is what combines strength and gentleness. The forms are solid, essential, protecting by withstanding the test of time.
From the minimal height of a side table to the headboard of a bed, a monument to sleep and the renewal of energy each day, up to the summit of a bookcase that unites two floors of a historic residence, everything has purpose, everything is proportion. Only in this way does the home become a seaport, a place to happily return to each day.
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